Lollms VS Coder
Lollms VS Coder is a powerful, AI-powered Visual Studio Code extension that brings a suite of intelligent tools directly into your editor. It leverages any Lollms-compatible API (local or remote) to provide advanced code assistance, autonomous agent capabilities, context-aware chat, inline autocompletion, diagram rendering, and much more.
Now available in English, French, Spanish, German, Arabic, and Chinese (Simplified)! 🌍
🌟 Key Features
| Feature |
Description |
| 🤖 Autonomous Agent |
Give the AI a complex objective, and it will generate and execute a multi-step plan, including creating files, writing code, running commands, and self-correcting. |
| ⚡ Quick Edit Companion |
A lightweight, floating window for fast code edits, explanations, or questions without leaving your current context (Ctrl+Shift+L). |
| 🧠 Smart Context |
A sidebar file tree lets you precisely control which files and folders the AI can "see." Includes an AI-powered auto-selection tool to find relevant context for any task. |
| 📝 Smart Edits |
Apply AI-generated code directly to your files with a single click, supporting both full-file updates and diff patching. |
| 🎭 Personalities |
Switch between specialized AI personas like "Python Expert", "Senior Architect", or "Security Reviewer" to tailor the AI's behavior to your current task. |
| 🕵️ Commit Inspector |
Analyze git commits for security vulnerabilities, bugs, and code quality issues with a single click. |
| 📓 Jupyter Integration |
Enhance your data science workflow with tools to generate, explain, visualize, and fix notebook cells. |
🚀 Installation & Setup
- Install lollms-vs-coder from the Visual Studio Marketplace.
- Open the Lollms sidebar in VS Code (click the Lollms icon in the activity bar).
- In the Actions view, click the Settings item to open the configuration panel.
- Enter your Lollms API Host (e.g.,
http://localhost:9642) and select your desired model.
💬 Standard Discussions
The Lollms Chat is your central hub for interacting with the AI.
- Start a Chat: Click the
+ icon in the Discussions sidebar view.
- Manage Context: Use the AI Context Files view to control what the AI sees:
- ✅ Included: The AI reads the full file content.
- 📄 Tree-Only: The AI sees the file path but not the content (saves tokens).
- 🚫 Excluded: The file is hidden from the AI.
- Attach Files: Click the paperclip icon or drag & drop images and documents directly into the chat area.
Customize how the AI behaves for each specific discussion by clicking the Discussion Settings (Gear Icon ⚙️) inside the chat panel.
🧠 Activate Thinking Mode
For complex tasks requiring logic and reasoning, enable Thinking Mode.
- Open Discussion Settings.
- Select a Reasoning Strategy:
- Chain of Thought: Forces the AI to show its step-by-step reasoning.
- Plan and Solve: Creates a plan before executing.
- Self-Critique: The AI checks its own answer for errors before responding.
- No Think: Disables reasoning for faster, direct answers.
🌐 Web Search
Toggle Web Search in the settings to allow the AI to browse the internet for up-to-date information (requires Google Custom Search configuration).
📝 Applying Code Changes
When the AI generates code, it provides interactive buttons to apply the changes directly to your project.
1. Full File Updates
If the AI generates a File: path/to/file.ext block:
- Click ⚙️ Apply to File.
- A diff view will open, allowing you to review the changes before saving.
2. Diff / Patching
If the AI generates a Diff: or patch block:
- Click ⚙️ Apply Patch.
- The extension attempts to intelligently apply the diff to the target file.
3. Insert / Replace
- Insert: Inserts the code block at your current cursor position in the active editor.
- Replace: Replaces your current selection with the generated code.
⚡ The Companion Panel (Quick Edit)
Press Ctrl+Shift+L (or Cmd+Shift+L on Mac) to open the Companion Panel. This is a persistent, floating window designed for rapid iteration.
- Context Aware: Automatically tracks your active editor selection.
- Attach/Detach: Pin the companion to a specific file or selection to keep the context fixed while you navigate other files.
- History: Keeps a local history of your quick interactions.
📓 Jupyter Notebook Integration
Lollms VS Coder supercharges your .ipynb notebooks with context-aware AI tools found in the cell toolbar:
- $(book) Educative Notebook: Generates a comprehensive, step-by-step notebook on a topic.
- $(sparkle) Enhance: Refactors and improves the code in the current cell.
- $(wand) Generate Next: Reads the current cell and generates the logical next step.
- $(info) Explain: Adds a markdown cell explaining the logic of the code cell.
- $(graph) Visualize: Generates code to visualize the data in the cell's output.
- $(debug-restart) Fix Error: If a cell execution fails, a "Fix with Lollms" button appears to analyze and fix the error.
When in Agent Mode, the AI can autonomously use tools to complete complex objectives:
| Tool Category |
Tools |
| File Operations |
read_file, generate_code (create/overwrite), list_files, search_files |
| Execution |
execute_command (Shell), execute_python_script |
| Research |
search_web (Google), search_arxiv (Papers), scrape_website |
| Python |
create_python_environment, install_python_dependencies, set_vscode_python_interpreter |
| Planning |
edit_plan (Dynamic self-correction) |
| Context |
auto_select_context_files, read_code_graph, request_user_input |
| Creative |
generate_image |
Contributing
Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! Feel free to check the issues page.
License
This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.
