🚀 Ollama Copilot – Local AI Coding Assistant (VS Code Extension)

🚀 Local AI Copilot for VSCode
⚡ Runs fully on Ollama (no API required)
🧠 Agentic workflows for coding, debugging & refactoring

Overview

Ollama Codex is a AI copilot extension (for VSCode) that brings autonomous coding assistance directly into your editor using local LLMs via Ollama.

Unlike traditional copilots, this extension enables allowing AI to:

Chat directly in default VSCode Chat extension.
Suggest code fixing.
Refactoring the existing code for a given file.
Suggest fixes for configuration issues.

All while running fully local (no API dependency).

Why This Exists

Modern AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot are powerful, but:

❌ Require cloud APIs
❌ Limited control over models
❌ Restricted customization

With Ollama Codex, you get:

✅ Local-first privacy
✅ Custom workflows & prompts
✅ Zero API cost
✅ Chat-interface similar to github-copilot

Local LLM adoption is rapidly growing due to privacy + flexibility benefits

Getting Started

Install the Extension:
- Open Visual Studio Code.
- Go to the Extensions view by clicking on the square icon on the Sidebar or pressing Ctrl+Shift+X.
- Search for "Ollama Codex".
- Click on 'Install' next to the extension.
Configure Ollama Server:
- Ensure that you have an instance of Ollama running on your local machine from here
- Install qwen2.5-coder:14b or gemma4 from terminal/powershell:
  
  ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:14b
  
  ollama pull gemma4

Project Structure

├── src/
│   ├── extension.ts
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
└── README.md

Architecture

VSCode Extension
      ↓
Agent Layer (Prompt + Tools + Memory)
      ↓
Ollama Runtime (Local LLM)
      ↓
Model (qwen2.5-coder:14B, gemma4)

Key Components

VSCode Extension Layer
- UI integration
- Native VSCode chat experience.
Ollama Integration
- Local inference
- Model switching
- Zero-latency interaction

Working Demo

Demo

Change Model Demo

Demo

Future Release

Onboard other models like gemma4.
Add more flexibilty to allow model-switching.
Add more context-window for models.

Contributing

We welcome contributions! If you have any suggestions, bug reports, or would like to enhance the functionality of this extension, please open an issue on our GitHub repository.

Ollama Codex

Parth Kansara