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Sherpa Coder
✓ verifiedFree

VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.

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✓ verifiedFreemium

Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.

👁 775K/mo
GitLoop
✓ verifiedFree trial

AI codebase assistant that chats with your repos to search, debug, review PRs, and generate docs and unit tests.

👁 11K/mo2.7K
Magic Patterns
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI prototyping tool that generates UI matching your design system, letting product teams test features fast.

👁 242K/mo3.8K
Builder.io
✓ verifiedFreemium

Visual development platform with AI design-to-code, a visual editor and headless CMS so teams and agents ship UI in real code.

👁 806K/mo
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Free: $0 per user/mo (60 agent credits)
Pro: $24/user/mo (500 credits)
Team: $40/user/mo
Core features
  • in-editor chat with OpenAI assistants
  • workspace source-code context sharing
  • support for custom, user-defined assistants
  • secure management of the user's OpenAI account
  • Open-source AI code assistant
  • Customizable autocomplete
  • In-editor AI chat
  • Community-built coding agent
  • Chat with your repositories
  • Natural-language codebase search
  • Fast code indexing
  • AI pull-request and commit review
  • Automated documentation generation
  • AI unit-test generation
  • AI UI generation from prompts
  • Match existing styling and design systems
  • Rapid, high-fidelity prototyping
  • Live team editing and sharing
  • Enterprise security and compliance
  • AI design-to-code (Figma to code)
  • Visual editor tied to your components
  • Headless/visual CMS
  • AI agents (Builder-Agent) that open PRs
  • Integrations: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Figma, VS Code
  • Roles, reviews and collaboration
Use cases
  • getting coding help without switching out of VS Code
  • using a personalized OpenAI assistant tuned to a project
  • quick in-editor Q&A while writing code
  • Get AI code completions while coding
  • Ask questions about code in the editor
  • Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
  • Onboard new developers to a codebase
  • Resolve bugs faster
  • Generate docs and tests automatically
  • Review pull requests with AI
  • Prototype new product features
  • Test designs with customers
  • Build design-system-consistent mockups
  • Convert designs to production code
  • Let non-developers edit pages visually
  • Manage content with a headless CMS
  • Collaborate across design, PM and engineering
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