Vally

Vally — On-Device AI Assistant

Your private AI inside VS Code.
Like Claude Code — but it runs entirely on your machine, costs nothing, and never sends your code anywhere.

What is Vally?

Vally is a complete AI assistant that lives on your computer. It chats, codes, reads PDFs, sees photos you upload, draws charts, browses the web, remembers things you teach it — all without sending anything to OpenAI, Anthropic, or anyone else.

This extension brings the full Vally experience inside VS Code, accessible from one ◆ icon in the activity bar.

Why Vally

	Vally	Cloud AI Tools
Runs on your machine	✅	❌
Your code stays private	✅	❌
Costs $0 / month	✅	❌
Works offline	✅	❌
Pick your own engine	✅ (Vally 1–5)	❌
Built-in web research	✅	Limited
Reads photos & PDFs	✅	Some
Learns from any website	✅	❌
Draws interactive charts	✅	❌

What you get inside VS Code

◆ Vally icon in the activity bar (left rail) — click to open the full dashboard in a sidebar webview.
Ctrl+Shift+L — open Vally as a full editor tab beside your code.
Ctrl+Shift+V — focus the sidebar view.
Status-bar entry ◆ Vally (bottom right) — one click to open.
Auto-reconnect — if your Vally server isn't running you get a friendly setup screen; the moment it comes up, the dashboard loads.
Inherits everything from Vally itself:
- Chat with on-device or cloud engines (your choice, your keys).
- Code workspace with file tree, viewer, Run console, and live web preview.
- Learn — point Vally at any website or topic; it downloads, embeds and remembers on-device.
- Photos & vision — drag in an image and Vally sees it.
- PDFs / code files — drop them in chat as context.
- Charts — interactive Chart.js renders.
- Slash commands — /new, /summarize, /translate, /code, /think, /help.
- Stop button + Esc to cancel mid-stream.
- Multi-profile, light theme, export / import, token usage tracking.

Requirements

VS Code 1.74+
Vally itself running locally — defaults to http://localhost:7700. Get it from your Sarouvet Technologies distribution. The extension is a thin window into your running Vally server.

Quick start

Install this extension.
Start your Vally server in any terminal:
```
cd path\to\Vally
npm run dev
```
You'll see Vally dashboard: http://localhost:7700. Leave it running.
Click the ◆ Vally icon in the activity bar (or press Ctrl+Shift+V).
Sign in with your local profile and start chatting / coding.

That's it. No API keys, no logins, no credit card. Your conversations stay on your device.

Settings

Setting	Default	Description
`vally.serverUrl`	`http://localhost:7700`	Where your Vally server is running. Change if you run on a different port or host.
`vally.openOnStartup`	`false`	Open the Vally sidebar automatically when VS Code starts.
`vally.showEditorButton`	`true`	Show a Vally button in the editor toolbar (top-right when a file is open).

Edit at: File → Preferences → Settings → search "Vally".

Commands

All commands available from the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P):

Command	Default keybind
`Vally: Open Chat`	`Ctrl+Shift+L`
`Vally: Open Sidebar`	`Ctrl+Shift+V`
`Vally: Reconnect`	—
`Vally: New Chat`	—

Privacy

This extension does not transmit anything to Sarouvet Technologies or any third party. It is a webview that loads your local Vally dashboard at the URL you configure. Every chat, every file Vally reads, every page it visits — happens inside your Vally server, on your machine. The extension itself is 9 KB of JavaScript that does nothing more than embed an iframe and check connectivity.

Support & feedback

Issues, ideas, feature requests → GitHub Issues
Q&A on the Marketplace listing page.

_{◆ Built by Sarouvet Technologies. Vally is the AI you actually own.}