🤖 AIDA - AI Development Assistant

Advanced AI Development Assistant with AIDA Chatbot for VS Code and Cursor IDE

Transform your development workflow with AIDA — your intelligent coding companion featuring a built-in chatbot, your own AI API keys (OpenAI / Claude), and comprehensive development tools. Compatible with both VS Code and Cursor IDE. No GitHub Copilot required!

🌟 What is AIDA?

AIDA (AI Development Assistant) is an intelligent VS Code and Cursor IDE extension that acts as your personal development companion. It features a built-in AIDA Chatbot sidebar, supports your own AI API keys, and integrates natively with GitHub Copilot Chat participants:

• 🤖 AIDA Chatbot — Built-in sidebar chat with image analysis and conversation history
• 🖥️ Cross-IDE — Works seamlessly with both VS Code and Cursor IDE
• 🔧 Flexible AI — Use your own OpenAI / Claude API keys, GitHub Copilot, or company-hosted models
• 🔍 Code Review — AI-powered analysis with framework-specific insights and project rules
• 🚀 PR Analysis — Cross-platform support for GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps
• 🕸️ Dependency Analysis — Interactive dependency graph with AI-powered impact analysis
• 💬 Chat Participants — 7 participants for natural-language interaction with your code

✨ Key Features

🔍 Smart Code Review

• Multi-language: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C#, Go, Java, PHP, Ruby, Rust, Kotlin, Swift
• Framework Awareness: Angular, React, Vue, Node.js
• Security Analysis: Automated vulnerability detection
• Performance Insights: Efficiency and optimization suggestions
• Project Rules: Support for both Technical and Business project rules

🤖 AIDA Chatbot

• Sidebar Chat: Built-in webview chat interface (Activity Bar → AIDA Chat)
• Image Support: Analyze code screenshots, error messages, and UI designs via OCR
• Flexible Backend: OpenAI, Claude, GitHub Copilot, or custom AI endpoint
• Smart Context: Automatically detects current file, language, and project context
• Multi-language UI: Vietnamese and English conversations

🔧 AI Integration Options

🚀 Pull Request Intelligence

• Cross-Platform: GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps
• Multi-Org Tokens: Configure tokens per organization in aida.sourceControls
• Visual Diff Viewer: Monaco Editor with syntax highlighting
• Customizable Templates: Framework-specific review templates

🕸️ Dependency Analysis

• Interactive Graph: Visualize project dependencies
• AI Impact Analysis: Understand ripple effects of changes
• Circular Dependency Detection: Spot architectural issues
• PR Dependencies: Analyze how a PR affects the dependency tree (@dependency-pr)
• Smart Caching: 24-hour cache for instant loading

💬 Chat Participants (7)

🚀 Quick Start

1. Install

# From VS Code / Cursor Marketplace
ext install trongld232.aida-dev

# Or from VSIX file
code --install-extension aida-dev-1.1.16.vsix

2. Choose Your AI Provider

Option A — GitHub Copilot (zero config)

Just install AIDA. It works with your existing Copilot subscription out of the box.

Option B — Your Own AI API

1. Open Settings (Ctrl+,) → search AIDA
2. Set aida.useExternalAI to true
3. Add your API key in aida.ai.apiKey
4. (Optional) Change aida.ai.apiHost and aida.ai.model

Option C — AIDA Chatbot (no Copilot)

1. Open Settings → set aida.useAIDAChatbot to true
2. Add your API key in aida.ai.apiKey
3. Click the AIDA Chat icon in the Activity Bar or press Ctrl+Shift+A

3. Configure Source Control Tokens (for PR Review)

AIDA supports multiple organizations per platform. Add tokens in aida.sourceControls:

{
  "aida.sourceControls": {
    "azureDevOps": {
      "MyOrg": "your-azure-devops-pat"
    },
    "github": {
      "my-org": "ghp_your-github-token"
    },
    "gitlab": {
      "my-group": "glpat-your-gitlab-token"
    }
  }
}

Organization names are derived from URLs: dev.azure.com/{ORG}, github.com/{ORG}, gitlab.com/{GROUP}.

4. AI Provider Settings

{
  // OpenAI
  "aida.ai.apiKey": "sk-your-openai-key",
  "aida.ai.apiHost": "https://api.openai.com",
  "aida.ai.model": "gpt-4o",

  // Claude
  "aida.ai.apiKey": "sk-ant-your-claude-key",
  "aida.ai.apiHost": "https://api.anthropic.com",
  "aida.ai.model": "claude-4-sonnet"
}

5. Start Using AIDA

• Review File: Right-click any file → AIDA: Review File
• Review Changes: Right-click in Source Control → AIDA: Review Changes
• Review All Changes: Command Palette → AIDA: Review All Changes
• Chat: Open AIDA Chat sidebar and type @review-file, @review-pr, etc.

💬 Chat Participants — Detailed Usage

📁 @review-file

@review-file                                 // Review current active file
@review-file src/components/UserProfile.tsx  // Review specific file

• Code quality & security analysis
• Performance optimization suggestions
• Best practices recommendations

🔄 @review-changes

@review-changes                              // Review uncommitted changes

• Smart diff analysis with impact assessment
• Breaking change detection
• Improvement suggestions

🔍 @review-all-changes

@review-all-changes                          // Review ALL modified files at once

• Workspace-wide change analysis
• Cross-file impact evaluation

🚀 @review-pr

@review-pr https://github.com/user/repo/pull/123
@review-pr https://gitlab.com/user/repo/-/merge_requests/45
@review-pr https://dev.azure.com/org/project/_git/repo/pullrequest/67

• Cross-platform PR analysis
• Automated review comments
• Merge readiness assessment

🕸️ @dependency / @dependency-pr

@dependency                                              // Analyze workspace (cached 24h)
@dependency re-analyze                                   // Force fresh analysis
@dependency-pr https://github.com/user/repo/pull/123     // PR impact on deps

• Interactive dependency graph
• Circular dependency detection
• AI-powered impact analysis

🔧 @sync-review-templates

@sync-review-templates                       // Download latest templates

• Sets up language & framework-specific templates
• Updates existing templates with improvements

🎯 Advanced Usage

Custom Review Templates

AIDA auto-selects templates by framework and language. You can also create your own:

your-project/
├── AIDA/
│   └── templates/
│       └── review-code/
│           ├── languages/     # Language-specific templates
│           └── fallback/      # Default templates

Use aida.templatesBasePath to point to a shared templates folder:

{
  "aida.templatesBasePath": "../Documents/AIDA"
}

Context Menu Actions

Right-click files in Explorer, Editor, or Source Control to access:

• AIDA: Review File
• AIDA: Review Changes
• AIDA: Analyze Dependency

Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P)

• AIDA: Review File
• AIDA: Review Changes
• AIDA: Review All Changes
• AIDA: Review Pull Request
• AIDA: Open AIDA Chat
• AIDA: Setup Azure DevOps Token
• AIDA: Show Available Language Models
• AIDA: Analyze Dependency

Keyboard Shortcut

🔧 All Settings

🔧 Development & Contributing

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.

📚 Documentation

• User Guide — Step-by-step tutorials, chat commands, and best practices
• API Reference — Configuration options and programmatic integration
• Template Guide — Create and customize review templates
• Troubleshooting — Common issues, debugging tips, and getting help

🆘 Support

• 🐛 Bug Reports: GitHub Issues
• 💡 Feature Requests: GitHub Discussions
• 📧 Contact: trongld232@gmail.com
• 🌟 Star us: github.com/trongld230289/aida

📄 License

MIT License — see LICENSE for details.

Made with ❤️ by Trong Le

"AIDA — Your AI Development Assistant. Code smarter, ship faster." 🚀