AI coding
If you want to stay in VS Code, these extensions add chat, completions or agents.
How we picked: Available as a Visual Studio Code extension. Listings are editorial and never paid.

AI Coding Tools
GitHub Copilot is an AI coding agent that suggests code, explains concepts, and coordinates agent workflows across IDEs, the CLI, desktop, and GitHub.
Platforms: Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
Code Assistant
Cline is an open-source AI coding agent that plans and executes tasks, edits files, runs terminal commands, and extends via MCP across IDE, CLI, and desktop.

Popular options include GitHub Copilot, Cline, Roo Code, Continue, Tabnine. The right choice depends on your project, budget and how much control you need.
Available as a Visual Studio Code extension. Paid placements never affect this list.
Code Assistant
Roomote is an AI engineering teammate that ships reviewable PRs — hosted by us in about two minutes, or self-hosted on your own infra. Single-tenant either way, source-available, bring any model. Sol…

AI Coding Tools
Open-source code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains that helps write, understand, and modify code, available free under the Apache 2.0 license.
Platforms: Windows · macOS · Linux

Code Assistant
AI writes code faster than teams can test it. Tricentis deploys a team of specialized AI agents, governed by AI Workspace, to test, validate, and release at AI speed.

Code Assistant
Amazon Q Developer is an AI coding assistant that speeds up coding, testing, reviews, and upgrades in IDEs, the CLI, and the AWS Console with agentic automation.

Code Assistant
Gemini Code Assist is Google’s AI coding tool for teams, providing code completion, chat, agents, and analytics across IDEs, the CLI, and Google Cloud services.
Code Assistant
Augment Code’s Cosmos orchestrates AI agents across the software lifecycle—code review, testing, security, and incidents—with human checkpoints and shared context.
Code Assistant
Documentation for Sourcegraph, the code intelligence platform.