AI Code Orchestrator
Your AI-powered development team, right in your editor.
AI Code Orchestrator is a VS Code extension and CLI for planning, implementing, reviewing, and explaining software with configurable AI agents. It combines chat, code actions, terminal workflows, custom roles, MCP integrations, and multi-agent orchestration in one workspace.
Capabilities
- Generate and modify code from natural-language requirements
- Plan architecture and break work into coordinated tasks
- Orchestrate work as a dependency-aware DAG with parallel executors, review stages, budgets, and controlled integration
- Context optimization - intelligent context management reduces token usage and costs while maintaining effectiveness
- Review changes, diagnose failures, and improve existing code
- Work with files, terminals, images, and external MCP tools
- Configure providers including Vercel AI Gateway and Unbound, models, permissions, and custom roles
- Assign models to individual roles, with automatic inheritance from the primary model when no override is configured
- Continue tasks from the editor or the command line
Roles
AI Code Orchestrator adapts to the work at hand:
- Code - implement changes and operate on project files
- Architect - design systems, specifications, and migrations
- Ask - answer questions and explain code
- Debug - isolate root causes and validate fixes
- Reviewer - validate changes, identify issues, and ensure quality
- Orchestrator - coordinate dependency-aware task graphs and parallel agents; this is the default role
- Translate - translate and manage localization files
- Custom - create specialized workflows for a team
Each role can use its own model configuration. When no role-specific model is assigned, it inherits the primary model, making it easy to balance capability, speed, and cost across a workflow.
Documentation
See the project documentation, including the orchestration specification, in apps/docs.
Installation
Install the AI Code Orchestrator extension from the VS Code Marketplace, or rebuild a fresh VSIX locally:
pnpm install
pnpm rebuild:vsix
To rebuild and then install it interactively, run pnpm install:vsix. This explicitly rebuilds the webview before bundling and packaging the extension. A normal pnpm install only installs dependencies.
The CLI is available from the monorepo during development:
pnpm --filter @ai-code-orchestrator/cli dev
The package scope and legacy command identifiers are retained for compatibility with existing integrations.
Attribution
AI Code Orchestrator is based on Roo Code. The implementation retains selected compatible APIs and identifiers so existing integrations can continue to work.
License
Apache 2.0
