Code Web Chat

Initialize your favorite chatbot, then apply the response with a single click

  
  
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Meet CWC

100% free and open source VS Code extension created by an independent developer aimed at making AI coding inexpensive, fast and accurate.

🧩 Built for VS Code and its derivatives (Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium, etc.)
🙋 Created by an independent developer

Guiding principles:

• initialize chatbots—don't scrape responses
• privacy first—zero telemetry
• lightweight—about 1MB of code

CWC is for you if:

• you're an experienced engineer working on a large codebase
• you're a student or hobbyist on a budget
• you want to get the most out of your web chat subscription
• you need reliable API tools that use the chosen context fully
• you don't have the time for coding agents finding relevant context
• you prefer community-driven initiatives to proprietary black boxes

See how simple it is to implement a feature with ChatGPT:

Workflow with CWC is simple and effective:

Context selection

Coding agents are designed to offload the burden of relevant context selection from the programmer. With today's advancements in LLMs capabilities, the technology is dramatically accelerating the pace a new code is created. For some it is too fast too keep up though. Over time, they lose confidence in their understanding of the codebase they work on. Verifying AI-suggested changes can become challenging, making it easier for bugs or unintended behaviors to slip in.

CWC does not prompt-engineer any form of autonomous AI assistance, instead, it expects programmer to be constantly in the loop with the evolving codebase by requiring careful context selection.

The benefits of this friction include:

• developing a mental model of the codebase
• eliminating idle time while waiting for the AI to figure things out,
• improved speed, quality, and cost efficiency of AI assistance.

Chatbot initialization

Code with your favorite chatbot without tedious copy-pasting and apply responses with a single click.

The Connector extension bridges your editor and the browser. Available for all Chrome and Firefox based browsers.

• Chrome Web Store
• Firefox Add-ons

Supported chatbots

AI Studio • ChatGPT • Claude • DeepSeek • Doubao • Gemini • Grok • HuggingChat • Mistral • Open WebUI • OpenRouter Chat • Perplexity • Qwen • Yuanbao

Legal Disclaimer: After chat initialization, the extension does not read the incoming message. The injected Apply response button is not a means of automatic output extraction, it's an alias for the original copy to clipboard button.

API Tools

CWC includes battle-tested must-have API tools.

Code Completions

Get code at cursor from state-of-the-art reasoning models.

✅ Includes selected context
✅ Designed for on-demand use

Edit Context

Create and modify files in context based on natural language instructions.

✅ Multi-file updates in a single API call
✅ Works like web chat->apply response

Intelligent Update

When applying chat response, update files based on code blocks in truncated edit format and fix malformed diffs.

✅ Regenerates whole files in concurrent API calls
✅ Smaller models like Gemini Flash are sufficient

Commit Messages

Generate meaningful commit messages precisely adhering to your preferred style.

✅ Includes affected files in full
✅ Customizable instructions

Predefined API providers

Anthropic • Cerebras • Chutes • DeepInfra • DeepSeek • Fireworks • Gemini • Hyperbolic • Mistral • OpenAI • OpenRouter • TogetherAI

ℹ️ Any OpenAI-API compatible endpoint works with CWC
🔒️ API keys are stored encrypted

Commands

Code completions

• Code Web Chat: Code Completion - Get inline autocompletion at the cursor position.
• Code Web Chat: Code Completion with Suggestions - Get inline autocompletion at the cursor position that follows given suggestions.
• Code Web Chat: Code Completion to Clipboard - Copy inline autocompletion prompt to clipboard.
• Code Web Chat: Code Completion with Suggestions to Clipboard - Copy inline autocompletion with suggestions prompt to clipboard.
• Code Web Chat: Code Completion in Chat - Use chatbot for code completion.
• Code Web Chat: Code Completion in Chat with... - Use chatbot for code completion with selected preset.

Editing context

• Code Web Chat: Edit Context - Create and modify files in context based on natural language instructions.

Applying chat responses

• Code Web Chat: Apply Chat Response - Integrate with the codebase copied overall chat response or a single code block.
• Code Web Chat: Revert Last Changes - Revert last applied chat response or the Edit Context API tool use.

Chat

• Code Web Chat: Chat - Type instructions and open chatbot with default preset.
• Code Web Chat: Chat using... - Type instructions and open chatbot with preset selection.
• Code Web Chat: Chat to Clipboard - Enter instructions and copy prompt to clipboard.

Context

• Code Web Chat: Copy Context - Copy selected files and websites to clipboard.
• Code Web Chat: Apply Context from Clipboard - Sets the context by parsing file paths from clipboard text.

Version Control

• Code Web Chat: Commit Changes - Generate a commit message for staged changes and commit.

Settings

Chatbot initialization

• Code Web Chat: Edit Format Instructions Truncated - Style instructions for chat responses when using truncated format.

• Code Web Chat: Edit Format Instructions Whole - Style instructions for chat responses when showing complete files.

• Code Web Chat: Edit Format Instructions Diff - Style instructions for chat responses when using diff format.

Commit Messages

• Code Web Chat: Commit Message Instructions - The instructions used when generating a commit message.

Community

Please be welcomed in discussions and in our subreddit /r/CodeWebChat.

Donations

If you find CWC helpful, please consider supporting the project. Thank you!

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Contributing

All contributions are welcome. Feel free to submit pull requests, feature requests and bug reports.

License

Copyright © 2025-present Robert Piosik
E-mail: robertpiosik@gmail.com
Telegram: @robertpiosik
License: GPL-3.0