FutureX — AI Coding Agent for VS Code

Free AI coding assistant for Visual Studio Code. Chat with your codebase, explain code, fix bugs, refactor, write unit tests, review your git changes and generate commit messages — without leaving the editor.

Five prompts free. No sign-up, no credit card, no waitlist. Install it, ask a question, get an answer. When the free prompts run out, sign in with a free FIM account to keep going and unlock the full agent.

Why FutureX

Most AI extensions answer as if your project did not exist. FutureX starts from what you already have open:

• The file you are looking at — path, language, your selection, and the errors your language server is already reporting on it.
• The branch you are on — FutureX detects git automatically: your branch, how far ahead or behind its upstream you are, and exactly which files are staged, unstaged or untracked.
• The project itself — once signed in, the agent reads the repository directly: it greps, globs, opens files, edits them and runs commands, with your approval on every change.

Try it in 30 seconds

1. Install the extension.
2. Click the FutureX icon in the activity bar (or press Ctrl+Alt+X / Cmd+Alt+X).
3. Ask something about the file you have open.

That is it — no account, no API key, no configuration. Your first five prompts are on us.

What it does

Chat that knows your project

An agent you can actually watch

Every tool call is shown as it happens — what it searched, what it read, what it is about to change. Edits arrive as a unified diff, and nothing touches your disk until you approve it.

Free before you sign up

Models and thinking effort

Pick the model and how hard it thinks from the panel header or the command palette. The picker saves your choice globally; both settings are window-scoped, so a workspace settings.json can override either for one project. Both are enforced server-side, so a model never runs at an effort it does not support.

Pricing is flat: $1 per 1M tokens on every model, input and output alike. No per-model surcharges, no seat licence, no subscription required to start.

Commands

Every command is available from the command palette under FutureX, and the code ones from the editor's right-click menu.

Settings

Your code stays yours

• Nothing is uploaded wholesale. No indexing pass, no background scan, no vector database of your repository on someone else's disk.
• What rides with a prompt is shown. Every prompt carries a context block — the open file, your selection, the git summary — and that block is printed in the transcript, collapsed, so you can read exactly what left your machine.
• What rides with a session is logged. When a signed-in agent session opens it also sends a short project card (name, language, framework, package manager, test runner — read from your manifests) and a machine summary (OS, shell, which tools are on your PATH). No file contents. That happens once per session rather than once per prompt, so it cannot live in the transcript; it is written verbatim to the FutureX output channel instead (FutureX: Show Logs), and futurex.context.project turns it off.
• Tools run locally. When the agent reads or edits a file, that happens in your editor process, inside your workspace folder. Only the result goes back.
• You approve every change. Edits, new files, deletes and terminal commands each need consent, with the diff or the command line in front of you.
• Your prompts are not logged for staff to read. See the FIM privacy policy.
• Credentials live in your OS keychain, via VS Code's secret storage — never in a settings file, never synced.
• Restricted workspaces stay restricted. In a workspace you have not trusted, FutureX drops to read-only tools: no edits, no commands.

Frequently asked questions

Is FutureX free?

Your first five prompts need no account at all. After that, create a free FIM account and keep going — usage is billed at a flat $1 per 1M tokens, and new accounts start with a free daily allowance.

Do I need an API key?

No. Sign in through your browser once and the extension holds a session in your OS keychain. There is no key to paste and none to leak.

Does it work offline or on a self-hosted deployment?

FutureX needs the FIM gateway to answer. If you run FIM yourself, point futurex.apiUrl at your deployment and everything else works unchanged.

Which languages does it support?

Any language you write. The agent's tools are language-agnostic — read, search, edit, run — and the model handles TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java, C#, PHP, Ruby, SQL, Terraform, shell and the rest.

Will it edit my files without asking?

No. Every edit, new file, delete and command is gated behind an approval dialog showing the exact diff or command. You choose whether that approval lasts one call, the session, or the workspace.

How is this different from the terminal CLI?

Same agent, same models, same account — a different surface. npm i -g futurex-cli gives you FutureX in a terminal; this gives you FutureX where you already are.

What happens when my free prompts run out?

The prompt you typed is kept, a sign-in card appears, and signing in re-sends it. Nothing is lost, and signing in also unlocks the full agent, file edits and the Pro model.

Links

• Website: https://futureim.org
• Portal and billing: https://portal.futureim.org
• Support: business@futureim.org
• Terminal CLI: futurex-cli on npm

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