🤖 AIDA — AI Development Assistant

Writing code is easy. Shipping quality code? That's the hard part. 🧨

AI generates code blazingly fast — but Technical Debt and Regression Bugs pile up just as quickly. Reviewers are overloaded, coding rules are half-remembered — we've all been there.

👉 AIDA was built to solve exactly that. Automated code review, scoring, dependency analysis — all right inside VS Code. No tab-switching, no context-switching.

⚡ What can AIDA do?

• 📄 Review File — full file review, perfect for refactoring or newly created files
• 🔄 Review Changes — review only changed lines (git diff)
• 🔀 Review PR — paste a PR link and get a full review (Azure DevOps / GitHub / GitLab)
• 📊 Dependency Scan — analyze dependencies with zero AI tokens, 100% accuracy
• 🏆 Auto-scoring (6 criteria) — Security, Null Safety, Error Handling, Resource Mgmt, Performance, Code Quality

📦 Installation & Activation

Step 1 — Install

1. Open Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X)
2. Search aida-dev
3. Click Install → Reload Window

Step 2 — Enter Activation Key

⚠️ Required — AIDA won't activate without a valid key.

Contact the project owner to obtain an activation key.

• Option A: Ctrl+, → search aida.activationKey → paste key
• Option B: Ctrl+Shift+P → AIDA: Show Activation Status

Step 3 — Trust Accounts (Optional)

After entering the key, VS Code shows a trust badge on the Accounts icon (bottom-left). Click to grant:

• 🔷 Microsoft Account — organization identity
• ⚫ GitHub Account — GitHub username

AIDA works fully without it. Trusting only improves user identification in usage tracking. You can trust at any time later.

⚙️ Configuration

Open Settings (Ctrl+,) → search "aida" to find all settings.

Common Settings

Without GitHub Copilot

For users who don't have a Copilot license:

Source Control Tokens (for PR Review)

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

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

📋 Review Modes

📄 Review File

Review entire file from top to bottom. Best for refactoring or newly created files.

🔄 Review Changes

Review only git diff (changed lines). Also supports reviewing all modified files at once.

🔀 Review PR

Review entire Pull Request by URL. Supports Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab. No clone needed!

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

🧩 Technical Rules

• Language templates (Angular, C#, Go, JS, NodeJS, Python, React, TS, Vue) auto-detect & apply matching rules
• Custom project rules: .github/rules/review-base.md — add project-specific coding standards, AIDA merges them into every review
• Sync templates: @sync-review-templates

📚 Business Documents

Place .md files in AIDA/business-docs/{category}/ — each subfolder = a selectable category.

When business docs exist, AIDA prompts:

• ⚡ Quick Review — code rules only
• 📚 Enhanced Review — code rules + business docs

📊 Scoring (6 criteria, 1–5)

Security · Null Safety · Error Handling · Resource Management · Performance · Code Quality

• Score ≥ 4 → ✅ GOOD
• Score < 4 → 🔧 RECOMMENDED FIX

🔮 Dependency Modes

Analyze code dependencies using Native VS Code API (LSP) — Zero AI tokens, 100% accuracy.

📊 Dependency Scan

Analyze the current file's import/dependency tree. Generates an interactive Force-Directed Graph (D3.js) inside VS Code.

🤖 Graph has Analyze with AI button — click to get AI-powered analysis & suggestions.

🔍 Dependency PR

Analyze a Pull Request's impact on the entire dependency graph. Shows which files/modules are affected by PR changes.

🤖 Graph has Analyze with AI button — click to get AI-powered impact analysis & testing suggestions.

Why Native > AI Scan?

• ✅ Native VS Code API → High accuracy & zero cost
• ⚠️ AI-based scan → High cost, prone to hallucination

🤖 AIDA Chatbot

Built-in sidebar chat — no Copilot required.

• Open: Activity Bar → AIDA Chat · or Ctrl+Shift+A
• Image Support: Analyze code screenshots, error messages, UI designs via OCR
• Smart Context: Auto-detects current file, language, and project context

AI Provider Options

⌨️ Commands & Shortcuts

Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P)

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

Keyboard Shortcut

🆘 Support

• 📧 Contact: GitHub Issues
• 🐛 Bug Reports: GitHub Issues
• 💡 Feature Requests: GitHub Discussions

📄 License

MIT License — see LICENSE for details.

Made with ❤️ by AIDA Team