Aarekhbot is a premium, beautifully designed AI coding assistant extension for Visual Studio Code. Experience a fast, dynamic, and intuitive chat interface that brings local and cloud LLMs directly into your IDE.
Features
- Multi-Model Support: Seamlessly switch between local Ollama models (e.g. Llama 3) and cloud APIs (e.g. OpenAI GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, DeepSeek R1).
- Persistent Chat Histories: Your conversations are securely saved to your local workspace, complete with editable titles and relative timestamps.
- Beautiful UI: Enjoy a stunning React-based webview built with Tailwind CSS, featuring smooth transitions, code syntax highlighting, copying utilities, and an elegant conversational dashboard.
- Context-Aware Assistance: Chat with your AI companion, ask it to explain active files, fix compiler errors, or suggest refactoring—all powered by quick slash commands.
Setup
- Install the extension.
- If using Ollama, ensure the local server is running (defaults to
http://localhost:11434). - If using OpenAI or custom APIs, click "Set API Key" from the command palette (
Cmd+Shift+P->Aarekhbot: Set API Key) and add your secret token. - Open the Aarekhbot sidebar and start typing!
Requirements
- VS Code 1.85.0 or later.
- An active API key (for cloud models) or a local Ollama instance (for local, privacy-first inference).
Aarekhbot is open source and designed to streamline your daily workflow.