Archivist: AI Powered Code Search

Description

Archivist is an AI-powered search engine and assistant that helps you search through and understand your codebase blazingly fast.

Archivist takes only a few minutes to set up, and can then query through your codebase in milliseconds. It also automatically summarizes matched snippets and explains their functionality in a concise and straightforward manner. It automatically updates its index as you edit your code, allowing it to consistently provide accurate search results.

Note: Archivist never stores your code or any other personal data.

Features

Upon opening a codebase that has not yet been indexed by Archivist, the extension will create a .archivist directory containing a config.json file in which you can configure files you'd like to be excluded from search via gitignore syntax.

Upon adding ignored files, navigate to the archivist extension and click Index Codebase. From there, the extension will begin indexing your code, and in only a few minutes you'll be able to begin querying it.

Once indexing is complete, type any query into the searchbar and hit enter to begin! As you make edits and save files in your codebase, the edits will instantly become searchable and begin showing up as potential results!

Tip: Do not change the auto generated project id in .archivist/config.json, or else you'll have to re-index your codebase.

Archivist is currently capable of indexing the following languages:

• Python
• Java
• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• TSX
• JSX
• C++

Files in the codebase that are not comprised of code from these languages will be ignored during indexing. Support for newer languages is planned and the supported language list will grow significantly in newer versions.

Credits

Logo Credits: Detective icons created by Eucalyp - Flaticon