ForgeMentor

AI-powered software engineering mentor for VS Code.

ForgeMentor helps developers understand code, reason through problems, and learn software engineering concepts instead of simply generating solutions.

Features

• 💬 Ask ForgeMentor technical questions directly from VS Code
• 🧠 Get explanations focused on reasoning and understanding
• ✨ React-based interactive chat interface
• 🤖 Gemini-powered mentoring
• 📋 Send selected code directly to ForgeMentor
• 🔌 Configurable backend endpoint
• ☁️ Spring Boot backend deployed with Docker and Kubernetes

Architecture

VS Code Extension
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React WebView
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ForgeMentor Backend
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Spring AI
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Google Gemini

Development

Extension

npm install
npm run compile

React WebView

cd webview
npm install
npm run build

Backend

cd ../backend
./mvnw spring-boot:run

Configuration

ForgeMentor supports configuring the backend URL through the VS Code setting:

forgeMentor.backendUrl

The default backend URL is:

http://forgementor.local

Project Status

Version: 0.1.0

This release represents the initial MVP of ForgeMentor.

License

MIT