AppMap for Visual Studio Code

AppMap Navie is an AI-driven chat with a deep understanding of your code. Build effective solutions using an intuitive chat interface and powerful code visualizations. Use AppMap's runtime tracing to improve the accuracy and depth of AI generation.

Your AI Code Architect

AppMap Navie acts as an AI Code Architect, equipped with the context to deeply understand how your application works. By reducing the time needed to research code changes and enhancing the context available to your coding copilot, Navie becomes an indispensable tool in your workflow.

Solve Complex Coding Issues with Confidence

AppMap Navie leverages runtime data and a structured workflow to help developers address challenging coding problems. Navie's capabilities include:

• Writing comprehensive documentation
• Understanding existing systems
• Planning and implementing changes
• Generating code and test cases
• Performing thorough code reviews

Get started

1. Install the AppMap extension from within the code editor or from the marketplace.

2. Sign in with an email address, or with GitHub or GitLab and Navie will be available in @explain mode. This enables Navie to respond to general coding and development questions and answer questions about using AppMap data.

3. Ask Navie for guidance recording AppMap data specific to interactions or code scenarios you're interested in analyzing.

Chat Modes

Navie provides different modes of interaction for an efficient workflow and optimized results from AI-assisted coding.

• @explain (default): Navie makes context-aware suggestions, provides specific solutions, and reasons about the larger context of the specific code being worked on.

• @plan: Navie focuses the AI response on building a detailed implementation plan for the relevant query. This will focus Navie on only understanding the problem and the application to generate a step-by-step plan.

• @generate: Activate code generation mode by beginning any question with the prefix "@generate". In this mode Navie's response are optimized to include code snippets you can use directly in the files are working on.

• @test: Navie's responses are optimized for test case creation, such as unit testing or integration testing. This prefix will understand how your tests are currently written and provide updated tests based on features or code that is provided.

• @diagram: Navie will create and render a Mermaid compatible diagram within the Navie chat window. You can open this diagram in the Mermaid Live Editor, copy the Mermaid Definitions to your clipboard, save to disk, or expand a full window view.

• @search: By leveraging smart search capabilities, this command will locate specific code elements, relevant modules, or examples.

• @review: This command will review the code changes on your current branch and provide actionable insights on various aspects of code, ensuring alignment with best practices in areas such as code quality, security, and maintainability.

• @help: Activate help mode by beginning any question with the prefix "@help". This mode offers assistance with using AppMap, including guidance for generating and leveraging AppMap data effectively.

Pinned Context

Pin specific data files to your conversation with Navie to include data sources you know are relevant to the issue. This includes pinning the text of the issue itself, and Navie responses.

Making AppMap Data

You can improve the quality and accuracy of Navie AI by making AppMap Data for your project.

Documentation

Navie is an open-source extension built with enterprise needs in mind, delivering a flexible LLM backend that allows organizations to fine-tune their AI solutions at scale. With advanced features like customizable token limits, robust automation tools, and seamless integration with existing workflows.

For detailed information visit our documentation.

Licensing and Security

Open source MIT license | Terms and conditions

To learn more about security of AppMap, or the use of data with AI when using Navie, see the AppMap security disclosure for more detailed information and discussion.

There is no fee for personal use of AppMap for graphing and limited Navie use. Pricing for premium features and integrations are listed on AppMap’s Pricing Page.