clarenceluo78 / vscode-chatgpt

An unofficial Visual Studio Code - OpenAI ChatGPT integration

The most loved* ChatGPT extension in VS Code open-sourced

The project is built as a hobby project - With no affiliation to any organization

The functionality fully relies on OpenAI services without any affiliation to them

*Downloaded by ~500,000 developers with more than 100 5 star ratings within 3 months of release

Features

• ➕ Use GPT-4, GPT-3.5, GPT3 or Codex models using your OpenAI API Key
• 📃 Get streaming answers to your prompts in sidebar conversation window
• 🔥 Stop the responses to save your tokens.
• 📝 Create files or fix your code with one click or with keyboard shortcuts.
• ➡️ Export all your conversation history at once in Markdown format.
• Automatic partial code response detection. Continues and combines automatically, when response is cut off.
• Ad-hoc prompt prefixes for you to customize what you are asking ChatGPT
• Edit and resend a previous prompt
• Copy, insert or create new file from the code, ChatGPT is suggesting right into your editor.

How to build and run

• Clone the repository to your local machine
• On the root directory, run yarn command to install the dependencies listed in package.json
• Within VS Code - run the project by simply hitting F5

How to install locally

• Install vsce if you don't have it on your machine (The Visual Studio Code Extension Manager)
  • npm install --global vsce
• Run vsce package
• Follow the instructions and install manually.