gguf-code: IDE AI Coding Assistant

Monster coding agent lives in your IDE - moving beyond a CLI bridge to a fully native IDE AI assistant.

Just shipped to vscode marketplace and it's compatible IDEs, i.e., cursor, windsurf, antigravity, etc., marketplaces

Features

• Native Chat Interface: Deeply integrated webview clean ui for smooth chat interactions inside VS Code (and/or its clone/fork IDEs).
• Embedded AI Engine: Run Coder's powerful AI logic directly within the extension process - no external CLI tool required.
• Project-Aware Context: Automatically understands your workspace structure and active files.
• Smart Tools:
  • read_file: Intelligently reads file contents with progressive loading for large files.
  • write_file, find_files, and more (Coming Soon).
• Live Diff Preview: Preview AI-suggested code changes with standard VS Code diff views.
• Diagnostics Integration: Uses LSP diagnostics to help fix errors in your code.

Requirements

• Visual Studio Code version 1.104.0 or higher
• coder.config.json in your workspace root (for configuring AI providers).

Getting Started

1. Installation: Install the extension from the VS Code Marketplace or via .vsix.
2. Configuration: Ensure you have a coder.config.json in your project root (see example below, can be any OpenAI compatible API or local/self-hosted API).

   {
     "providers": [
       {
         "name": "openrouter",
         "baseUrl": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
         "apiKey": "your-api-key",
         "models": ["anthropic/claude-4.5-sonnet"]
       }
     ]
   }
   

3. Launch: Click the "Code" monster icon in the Activity Bar (left sidebar) to open the chat.

Usage

• Chat: Type naturally in the chat window. "Explain this file", "Fix this bug", etc.
• Context: The assistant automatically knows about your open files.

Architecture

This extension has migrated from a thin client (CLI bridge) to a thick client architecture:

• Frontend: React + Vite (Webview).
• Backend: Node.js Extension Host (running ai-sdk-client).
• Communication: VS Code Message Passing API.

Development

npm install

# Build both Webview and Extension
npm run build

# Watch mode (rebuilds on change)
# Terminal 1:
npm run watch:webview

# Terminal 2:
npm run watch

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

License

MIT