AI-powered coding assistant — chat with AI about your code, run agentic coding sessions, and review changes without leaving VS Code.
Features
Chat sidebar — click the Fring icon in the activity bar, or press Ctrl+Shift+L (Cmd+Shift+L on macOS) to open the chat as an editor panel.
Agentic sessions — the assistant can read your project, propose changes, and show diffs for review.
Add file context — click the + button in any editor's title bar to add the current file, or attach a selection straight from the editor.
Sign in — run Fring: Sign In from the command palette to connect your account and unlock model access.
Getting started
No setup needed — install the extension and open the chat. On first run, Fring automatically sets up its local server (a one-time download). If you use the Fring desktop app or have the Fring CLI installed, the extension connects through those instead.
Extension settings
Setting
Description
fring.serverUrl
Connect to a Fring server you run yourself (leave blank to auto-connect).
fring.serverUsername
Basic-auth username for that server (defaults to fring).
fring.serverPassword
Password for that server (required when serverUrl is set).
fring.cliPath
Path to a Fring CLI binary to use for the local server (leave blank to auto-detect).
