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Sherpa Coder
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VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.
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MarsCode
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AI-powered IDE with code completion, generation, explanation and debugging, plus a cloud dev environment, for developers.
👁 69K/mo
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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
- ✦AI code completion and snippet generation
- ✦Natural-language code generation
- ✦Code explanation and AI Q&A
- ✦Automated bug detection and fixes
- ✦Zero-config cloud development environment
- ✦Project creation from templates or Git
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
- →Writing and completing code faster with AI
- →Onboarding to unfamiliar codebases
- →Debugging and optimizing code
- →Spinning up dev environments in the browser
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