Minovative Mind

[!WARNING] 🚀 Minovative Mind has moved to the Terminal!

This VS Code extension is currently being deprecated in favor of our new, lightning-fast CLI. All future updates, models, and features will be exclusively available on the CLI.

Install the new CLI globally today:

npm install -g minovative-mind-cli

For more information, visit the Minovative Mind CLI npm page.

Turn your ideas into software—just describe it in natural language, and this world-class extension builds it for you.

Minovative Mind is a powerful AI agent for Visual Studio Code that integrates AI models directly into your workflow. It plans, writes code, fixes bugs, and automates mundane tasks — all while running with full transparency and user control.

Two Modes. One Extension. Run with your own free Gemini API key for a fully local, private experience — or sign in with GitHub and use Managed Billing for seamless, credit-based access with no API key required.

Official Website: minovativemind.dev

🚀 Key Features

• 🤖 Autonomous Planning & Execution: Give it a high-level goal (e.g., "Create a login form"), and it generates a plan, creates files, writes code, and self-corrects any issues. Uses a strict /plan command enforcement for structural modifications to ensure safety and precision.
• 🛡️ Gatekeeper Risk Assessment: An AI-driven Gatekeeper assesses the risk of code changes and autonomously runs your test suite or verification commands to validate medium-to-high risk modifications before finalizing them.
• 🔒 Output Integrity Validation: Hash-based SEARC#H / ===#=== / REPLAC#E markers guarantee surgical precision — AI-generated patches are validated before being applied to your codebase. Pre-Flight Syntax Validation checks code across 15+ languages before writing to disk.
• 🔌 External Tool Integration (MCP): Connect external tools and services via the Model Context Protocol SDK — databases, APIs, and specialized development tools are dynamically discovered and available to the AI agent.
• 💬 Intelligent Chat: Context-aware chat that understands your entire workspace. Text and image support (Multimodal).
• 🛠️ Auto-Fix & Debug: /fix command to analyze errors and auto-repair code issues with an autonomous self-correction loop that captures and parses terminal failure outputs directly for immediate remediation.
• 📝 Documentation & Cleanup: /docs command to add comprehensive docs and remove clutter.
• 🔎 Agentic Context Investigation: Actively investigates your codebase using ripgrep (rg) as its primary search tool with a decision-tree strategy, deep IDE symbol tools (get_implementations, get_call_hierarchy, get_file_diagnostics, get_git_diffs), and Relationship-First discovery with a high-performance zero-dependency Exploration Service fallback.
• 💾 Git Automation: /commit generates descriptive conventional commit messages (rich, functional titles and highly selective filename-prefixed bullets) from staged changes.
• 🛡️ Safe & Transparent: Workspace-bound file operations, explicit shell command approvals, AI output sanitization, and Snapshot Protection that automatically reverts self-correction changes if they increase errors.
• ☁️ Managed Billing (New): Sign in with GitHub and purchase credits on minovativemind.dev. Usage is billed server-side via a secure Cloud Function proxy using exact token counts from the AI API — no heuristics, no client-side tampering possible. Includes support for the latest Gemini models with family-based pricing tiers.
• 📊 Data Sovereignty: Comprehensive "Export Data" utility in the billing dashboard to download account history, project logs, and usage statistics in JSON format.

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⚡ Quick Start

Option A — Use Your Own API Key (Free, Local)

1. Install from VS Code Marketplace

Search for "Minovative Mind" in the VS Code Extensions view (Cmd+Shift+X) and install it.

Marketplace Link

2. Get Your Free Gemini API Key

1. Go to Google AI Studio.
2. Create a new API key.

3. Configure the Extension

1. Open the Minovative Mind sidebar in VS Code (click the icon in the Activity Bar).
2. Scroll down to the API Key Management section.
3. Paste your API key and click Save.

That's it! You're ready to code.

Option B (Recommended) — Managed Billing (No API Key Needed)

1. Visit minovativemind.dev and Sign in with GitHub.
2. Purchase a credit pack on the Pricing page.
3. In VS Code, open the Minovative Mind sidebar and click Sign in with GitHub.
4. Your credit balance syncs automatically. All AI requests are routed through our secure proxy.

In API Key mode, no data is stored, processed, or transmitted by third parties beyond Google's Gemini API. In Managed Billing mode, requests are proxied through our Cloud Function, which validates your Firebase identity and credit balance before forwarding to the AI model. See the Privacy Policy for full details.