AI Code Reviewer Buddy 🚀

Your Intelligent Coding Companion!

AI Code Reviewer Buddy is a professional-grade VS Code extension that leverages Google's Gemini 1.5 Flash model to provide deep code analysis, real-time feedback, and automated documentation.

🌟 Why AI Buddy?

Unlike standard linters, AI Buddy understands the intent and context of your code, providing human-like feedback and high-level architectural suggestions.

✨ Key Features

🔍 1. Advanced AI Review

Conducts a comprehensive review of your code in a single pass, covering:

Security: Identifies OWASP top vulnerabilities, hardcoded secrets, and insecure patterns.
Performance: Detects bottlenecks, memory leaks, and complexity issues.
Best Practices: Ensures adherence to SOLID principles and language-specific conventions.
Complexity: Calculates a complexity score (1-10) with detailed reasoning.

📊 2. Interactive Analytics Dashboard

Visualize your codebase health:

Core Metrics: Track analyzed files, issues found, and fixes applied.
Severity Breakdown: Understand health through Critical, High, Medium, and Low labels.
Activity Log: Quickly jump back to recently analyzed files.

🔄 3. Smart Refactoring

Get professional refactoring patterns with "Before vs. After" code previews.

📝 4. Auto-Documentation

Generate professional JSDoc or Python Docstrings for your classes/functions with one click.

🛠️ Getting Started

1. Configure Gemini API Key

Required for all AI features.

Get a free API key at Google AI Studio.
In VS Code, press Ctrl+Shift+P.
Run: AI Code Reviewer: Configure API Key.
Paste your key and you're ready to go!

2. Performing a Review

Open any source code file (.js, .py, .ts, etc.).
Right-click and select Review Code with AI.
Or simply start typing to see Ghost Text suggestions!

[!TIP] No manual server start needed! AI Buddy automatically manages the analysis backend for you.

📄 License

MIT License - Developed and Maintained by Ahsan Raza Sheikh

For technical details, architecture overview, and running from source, please see TECHNICAL.md.