Code Assistant
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Code Assistant, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Code Assistant's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Open source | Free | MIT-licensed software · Requires a configured model provider and API key |
The facts
Each one read from Code Assistant's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Agent controls
- Features include sub-agents, permission tiers, a command sandbox, and automatic context compaction.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Chat assistance
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Coding agent
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Credential setup
- Users configure a provider by supplying an API key and selecting a model in the app's Settings screen.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Document support
- It can consume Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF documents as Markdown alongside source code.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Edit handling
- Format-on-save reconciles the agent's edits with formatter output, and file encoding and line endings are preserved when files are written.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The project is presented for people who want an autonomous coding assistant and editor or MCP client integrations.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Interfaces
- It offers a native GUI, terminal mode, headless MCP server, and ACP agent mode for editors such as Zed.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository lists an MIT license.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Maintainer location
- The GitHub maintainer profile lists Großbeeren, Germany.checked 11 Oct 2026
- MCP integration
- In MCP client mode, it can connect to external MCP servers over stdio or HTTP and register their tools.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Providers
- It supports providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, Ollama, OpenRouter, SAP AI Core, Groq, Cerebras, and Mistral.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Code Assistant is an LLM-powered autonomous coding agent that reads, searches, and edits code and runs commands.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security controls
- The project describes smart filtering that blocks unsafe tool combinations and provides configurable sandbox modes, including read-only and workspace-write.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported IDEs
- Zed,Visual Studio Codechecked 22 Sep 2026
- Terminal access
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Browser use
- The agent can navigate, read, click, and type in a browser to test web apps, with a human-in-the-loop login handoff.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Platform downloads
- Prebuilt downloads are listed for macOS Apple Silicon and Intel, Linux x86_64, and Windows x86_64.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
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