Sourcegraph Cody

Sourcegraph Cody is an AI coding assistant that provides intelligent code suggestions, refactoring recommendations, and programming help directly within your development environment. Modern software development increasingly involves working with large, complex codebases where understanding existing code structure, remembering API interfaces, and writing correct implementations requires constant context-switching between coding and documentation or searching. Developers spend significant time searching for examples, consulting API documentation, and fixing errors rather than focusing on logic and architecture. Cody addresses this challenge by integrating an AI assistant directly into your IDE, providing context-aware coding help without leaving your editor. The assistant understands your codebase structure, recognizes patterns and conventions used in your project, and provides suggestions aligned with your specific code style and architecture. Whether you're implementing new features, refactoring existing code, debugging errors, or learning unfamiliar APIs, Cody provides intelligent, context-specific assistance that accelerates development while maintaining code quality and consistency.

How It Works

Using Cody involves installing the extension in your IDE (VS Code, JetBrains, or others) and connecting it to your code repository. The assistant analyzes your codebase, learning its structure, patterns, libraries, and coding conventions. As you code, Cody provides intelligent suggestions considering context from your project and conversation. You can select code and ask questions like "What does this function do?" or "How do I refactor this?" and receive detailed explanations and suggestions. For new code, describe what you want to implement, and Cody suggests implementations aligned with your project's style and architecture. The assistant helps debug by analyzing error messages and suggesting fixes. Throughout development, Cody learns from your coding patterns and provides increasingly relevant suggestions.

Core Features

Codebase Understanding analyzes your entire codebase to understand structure, patterns, and conventions, enabling context-aware suggestions specific to your project.

Code Generation suggests complete function implementations, refactoring approaches, and architectural improvements aligned with your project's style.

Error Explanation and Debugging analyzes error messages and suggests likely causes and fixes.

API Documentation Integration provides usage examples and documentation for libraries your project uses.

Refactoring Suggestions recommends improvements to code structure, efficiency, and maintainability.

Chat Interface enables conversational interaction with the assistant for questions, explanations, and deeper discussion.

Who This Is For

Cody serves software developers working with large, complex codebases who benefit from intelligent assistance understanding and modifying code. Teams seeking to standardize code style and architecture across projects through AI suggestions aligned with project conventions. Junior developers learning codebase structure and programming patterns. Senior developers accelerating routine coding tasks to focus on architecture and complex problem-solving.