[Name of your Agent]

Author:

Timothy Halim - timothy.halim@teradata.com

Product Group Alignment:

Platform Characterization & Modeling, Product Development

Agent Description:

This is an VS Code extension to help developers quickly access historical Git information and analysis.

• Is this an agent which would be used by a Teradata customer or internally within Teradata? This is meant to be an internal developer tool to assist in code analysis.
• What does the agent do? The AI agent parses Git history and information to report to the user and assist in developing the current function better.
• Why is it useful or compelling? Navigating Git through the UI is cumbersome to get relevant data, the extension leverages an API to get that information and an agent to parse through the large density of data.

Status:

• Were you successful in creating the desired capabilities? Yes, this agent is available to download.
• Is this agent ready for production or does it need more work? It is ready for production, you are able to download it from the marketplace.

Value Description

The agent is assisting the developer in understanding legacy codebases and historical Git commits better. It will allow the developer to spend less time navigating Git, whether through command line or through the UI, and allow more time for more development. This extension is not meant to replace anyone, but to speed up the development process by removing navigation time.

• Required: Does the agent improve productivity, cost, quality, or security? (if multiple choose the highest impact) It will improve the productivity and quality of developers.
• Required: How frequently would this agent get invoked if it was deployed into production today? (X per day, per week, per release, per year ???) It will be invoked frequently during development cycles. It will help developers understand previous history commits without navigating through menus or command lines. The agent will parse through the data and report the information concisely.
• Required: How much does it cost to run your agent? Cost: $0 per execution - This VS Code extension runs entirely locally on the developer's machine using native Git commands and VS Code's built-in AI chat participant. There are no cloud services, API calls, or external dependencies that incur runtime costs. The only costs are one-time development and potential marketplace publishing fees.
• Required: Quantify the productivity, cost, quality, or security impact. Describe the potential savings in terms of hours, dollars, or defects saved
  • Show your math, how did you arrive at your conclusions? Productivity Impact Calculation:

Time Savings Per Developer:

• Manual Git blame analysis: ~2-3 minutes per investigation
• Manual commit history research: ~5-10 minutes per codebase exploration
• Pull request preparation: ~10-15 minutes per PR
• Extension execution time: ~5-10 seconds per analysis

Conservative Estimates:

• Git investigations per developer per day: 10-15 times
• Time saved per investigation: 2-8 minutes
• Daily time savings: 20-120 minutes (0.33-2 hours) per developer

Annual Savings Calculation:

• Average developer salary: $120,000/year ($60/hour)
• Working days per year: 250 days
• Time saved per developer per year: 83-500 hours
• Cost savings per developer: $4,980 - $30,000 annually

Quality Improvements:

• Faster identification of code ownership reduces debugging time by 15-25%
• Better understanding of code history reduces introduction of duplicate bugs
• Enhanced pull request summaries improve code review quality and reduce rework

For a team of 50 developers: $249,000 - $1,500,000 in productivity savings annually

Author's Notes

• Did you learn any new skills? I learned how to develop extensions for VSCode, how to prompt AI agents, and how to navigate new projects.
• Do you have feedback on the Agent Build Challenge?

Deployment Instructions

To run this extension locally:

1. Clone, setup and build.

git clone <repo>
cd swe-helper
npm install
npm run compile

2. Run the extension and test it. Open the correct folder with the extension. Press F5 to launch Extension Development Host. Open an appropriate GitHub repository that is cloned or installed locally. CTRL+SHIFT+P to open the command palette and type in Developer Git Assist to see the available commands.