VS Code Extensions for Local AI Coding

Cline is an AI coding agent for developers who want help understanding a codebase and changing it. Its shared agent core is open source under Apache 2.0. You can use it in VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, or a terminal. A native desktop app runs on macOS and Windows. No editor is required for desktop sessions. The JetBrains plugin itself is not open source.

CodeGPT is an AI coding assistant for VS Code, JetBrains and Visual Studio that lets developers choose between models running locally through Ollama or LM Studio and cloud models such as Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok. It's for people who want help writing and debugging code inside their editor while keeping control over which model handles each task.

Refact is a self-hosted AI coding assistant for developers who want an agent to work across their repository and development tools. The original project is archived and no longer maintained; ongoing development has moved to JegernOUTT/refact. The original code uses the BSD-3-Clause license.

Wingman-AI is a self-hosted AI agent platform for work that needs ongoing context and several agents with different roles. It suits developers and teams handling research, support, or recurring operations alongside coding tasks. A lead agent can delegate work to specialized subagents, each with its own workspace and session history.

LMQL is a programming language for developers who need model calls and ordinary Python logic in the same program. It lets you define rules for generated text, including types, length limits, allowed answers and stopping phrases. Those rules apply during generation, so you can constrain intermediate responses as well as the final output.

Llama Coder is an open source VS Code extension for developers who want a self-hosted alternative to GitHub Copilot's code completion. It uses Ollama to run models on your own hardware, either on the computer you're coding on or on a separate machine. The extension has no telemetry or tracking.

DVC connects data and model versions to the code in your Git repository, so you can reproduce a machine learning experiment with the inputs it used. It's a free, open-source tool under Apache 2.0 for individual data scientists and small projects. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux.

Twinny is an AI coding assistant for VS Code that lets developers choose where their models run: on their own computer, a private server or a hosted API. It's for individuals and teams who want code suggestions and repository chat with control over where their code goes. The extension and team gateway are open source under the MIT license.

Roo Code is an AI coding assistant for developers working in a code editor. The project is archived and no longer maintained, and its extension has been shut down. It builds on Cline, and its source code is available under the Apache License 2.0.

Prompt flow is an MIT-licensed, open-source toolkit for developers who build LLM applications and need to test their behavior before deployment. Its development tools run locally, while an optional cloud version in Azure AI supports team collaboration. Feature development has ended.

Continue is an open-source coding agent available as a CLI, VS Code extension and JetBrains plugin. Continue was acquired by Cursor, and the project is no longer actively maintained. Its repository is read-only, and its software uses the Apache 2.0 license.

Qwen Code is an Apache 2.0 licensed AI coding agent for developers who want help working through a codebase, changing code and checking the result. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a terminal interface and a desktop app. It builds on Google Gemini CLI and has developed into an agent that can use Qwen models alongside other model providers.

Inspect AI is a Python framework for researchers and developers testing language models and AI agents. Developed by the UK AI Security Institute and Meridian Labs, it evaluates coding, reasoning, knowledge, behavior and multimodal understanding, including tasks where agents must take actions to succeed.

Kilo Code is an AI coding agent for developers who want help writing and understanding code in their editor or terminal. It runs in VS Code, JetBrains IDEs and the CLI, with cloud agents available for remote work. The project is open source under the MIT license and can be self-hosted.