Cody Capabilities

Learn and understand more about Cody's features and core AI functionality.

Cody offers a rich set of capabilities and features that help you write better code faster. These include:

Chat: Allows users to ask general programming questions or inquire about specific code
Autocomplete: Suggests code completions as you type, utilizing context from your code, open files, and file history
Commands & Custom Commands: Provide predefined, reusable prompts for common actions, such as documenting code, explaining code, generating unit tests, and identifying code smells
OpenCtx Context Providers: Add additional context sources from outside of your code base by leveraging OpenCtx Providers
Debug code: Helps you with identifying and fixing code errors and bugs.
Cody Ignore: Helps you ignore selected files or folders from chat and autocomplete result

Learn more about each by exploring their respective documentation:

Chat

Get contextually-aware answers to codebase-specific questions.

Learn to get contextually-aware autocompletions as you type.

Commands help you kick-start with reusable prompts.

OpenCtx context providers allow you to bring in additional context sources beyond your code.

Identify and fix code errors and bugs.

Cody helps you filter context based on a set of exclude and include rules.