DataMind Oda for VS Code
DataMind Oda, the DataMind agent, inside VS Code. Chat with Oda, let it read and change your workspace with your approval, and work with your DataMind minds, jobs and knowledge without leaving the editor.
Requirements
- Windows 10 or 11 (x64), or Windows 11 on Arm, which runs the agent through its x64 emulation and so more slowly. The extension brings its own agent runtime; the DataMind Oda desktop app is not needed.
- A DataMind server account with access to DataMind Oda. Ask your administrator if you do not have one.
Getting started
- Install this extension and click the New Chat button at the top right of any editor. Each click opens a new chat in its own tab beside your code, working in the folder you have open; tabs are named after their chats and come back when VS Code restarts. The chat is also in the Activity Bar on the left and the Secondary Side Bar on the right.
- Sign in with your DataMind server address when the extension asks.
- Use DataMind Oda: Add Selection to Chat (
Ctrl+Alt+O) to reference the code you selected, or simply copy lines in the editor and paste them into the chat: they arrive as a reference to the file and lines. Drag files from the Explorer into the chat while holding Shift to reference them, and use Add Terminal Output to Chat from a terminal's menu to share commands' output.
- Find earlier chats of this workspace under Past chats (the clock at the top right of the chat), and let Oda write your commit message from the staged changes with the Oda button in the Source Control view.
- When Oda asks before changing a file, the change opens in VS Code's diff view. Accept or reject each change, edit the proposal yourself, or reject it with instructions for what to do instead. Oda saves your open files before reading them and can check VS Code's Problems panel after its edits.
The first time Oda works with data in Python or with Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files, it downloads the tools it needs once (about 100 MB each). Settings > Components lists them; download them there ahead of time, for example before you work offline, or remove them to free disk space. If you already use the desktop app, the extension offers to bring over your chats from it the first time you open Oda.
Behind a corporate proxy, the agent uses VS Code's Http: Proxy setting unless your environment already names a proxy.
Privacy and security
The agent runs on your computer. The extension reaches it through a local connection protected by a secret created for each session, which websites cannot reach, and requests to your DataMind server use your own account.
