GuardRails

VSCode extension to help developers set up guardrails around their functions, by helping them disambiguate purpose statements.

• The VSCode extension is available on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace.
• A dataset on the performance of GuardRails in comparison with Copilot Chat is available here.

Requirements

1. Python

Note: GuardRails is fully tested only on Windows and currently provides experimental support for Linux.

Installing Python Dependencies for trimming and mutations

$ python -m pip install hypothesis hypothesis[cli] hypothesis[ghostwriter] black
$ python -m pip install git+https://github.com/mrigankpawagi/mutpy.git#egg=mutpy
$ python -m pip install func-timeout

Features

1. Copilot suggestion trimmer (for Python)

   • Control + Shift + / after opening suggestions panel (Control + Enter)
   • Suggests a differentiating doctest if there are multiple valid suggestions and if the function arguments have type hinting.

2. Copilot suggestion mutator-trimmer (for Python)

   • Control + Shift + ; after opening suggestions panel (Control + Enter)
   • Suggests a differentiating doctest if there are multiple valid suggestions or mutants and if the function arguments have type hinting.