BITZY

Understand Your Code. Master Your Projects.

An AI-powered coding companion that helps you understand code, explore project architecture, analyze code quality and debug smarter — directly inside Visual Studio Code.

🚀 What is Bitzy?

Bitzy is designed to help developers understand and work confidently with their existing projects.

Explore your codebase, understand unfamiliar files, investigate errors and discover potential maintainability issues without constantly switching between tools.

✨ Features

01. Project Overview

Get a clear picture of your workspace.

• Scan your project.
• Explore files and folders.
• Identify programming languages.
• Discover dependencies and technologies.
• View project statistics.

02. Project Architecture

Visualize how your project is structured and connected.

• Explore source files visually.
• Inspect file relationships.
• Understand module dependencies.
• Explore architecture and dependency-flow views.
• Search files and modules.

03. Understand My Code

Make unfamiliar code easier to understand.

• Explain selected code or active files.
• Understand functions and programming logic.
• Explore dependencies and code structure.
• Get beginner-friendly explanations.
• Understand how different parts of your code work.

04. Codebase X-Ray

Discover potential code-quality and maintainability issues.

• Identify oversized source files.
• Find TODO, FIXME and HACK markers.
• Detect suspicious hardcoded credential patterns.
• Review available VS Code diagnostics.
• View heuristic maintainability insights.

The maintainability score is heuristic and is not a security certification or guarantee of software quality.

05. Debugging Coach

Understand coding issues and investigate possible solutions.

• Review available VS Code diagnostics.
• Investigate potential error causes.
• Understand evidence behind detected issues.
• Explore suggested fixes.
• Learn why issues happen.

⚡ Getting Started

Installation

1. Open Visual Studio Code.
2. Open Extensions using Cmd + Shift + X or Ctrl + Shift + X.
3. Search for Bitzy.
4. Select the extension published by AaryanPandey.
5. Click Install.

How to use

1. Open an existing project folder in VS Code.
2. Click the Bitzy icon in the Activity Bar.
3. Select Scan My Project.
4. Explore your project architecture.
5. Use Understand My Code to explain code.
6. Run Codebase X-Ray to inspect potential issues.
7. Open Debugging Coach to investigate coding problems.

💻 Requirements

• Visual Studio Code compatible with the extension manifest.
• An open workspace for project analysis.
• Compatible VS Code Language Model access for AI-powered features.

AI functionality depends on your configured provider and permissions.

🔒 Privacy

• Project scanning and Codebase X-Ray are designed for local, read-only analysis.
• AI features may send selected code or relevant context to the configured language model provider.
• Avoid sharing confidential source code, passwords or API keys with AI providers unless you understand their data policies.

🎯 Our Mission

We believe developers should understand the code they build.

Bitzy aims to help students and developers improve their code understanding, debugging skills and confidence when working with real-world projects.

💬 Feedback & Support

Have a suggestion or found a bug?

Visit the Bitzy Marketplace page.

BITZY

Understand More. Debug Smarter. Build Independently.

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