CodeBuddy
The facts below are what the maker publishes about CodeBuddy, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From CodeBuddy's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free, open-source coding agent · bring your own model |
The facts
Each one read from CodeBuddy's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Agent features
- The agent creates a visible plan, delegates work to specialist subagents, and offers checkpoints to rewind prior state.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Agent workflow
- The Developer Agent decomposes work into a visible plan, delegates to specialist subagents, and verifies before marking work done.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Architecture
- It is built as a LangGraph deep agent that plans work, delegates to specialist subagents, and verifies results.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Bring your own key
- CodeBuddy uses users’ own model keys and states that code can stay on the user’s machine when using local models.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Built-in skills
- CodeBuddy includes 16 service skills, with connectors such as GitHub, Jira, AWS, PostgreSQL, and Datadog.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Chat assistance
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Codebase indexing
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Code completion
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Coding agent
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Credential handling
- When enabled, the credential proxy keeps keys in the OS keychain and injects them into upstream requests through a localhost-only proxy.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Custom skills
- Users can add workspace or global skills, packaged with prompts and optional scripts or dependencies.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Data privacy
- The security page says extension data stays locally under .codebuddy, provider requests go directly to the provider, and telemetry is opt-in.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Editors
- It supports VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and VSCodium, and runs in editors that support the VS Code extension API.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The installation page requires VS Code 1.78 or newer and documents marketplace and VSIX installation.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The built-in skills catalog includes AWS, Datadog, GitHub, GitLab, Gmail, Jira, Kubernetes, Linear, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sentry, Elasticsearch, and email.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The site describes CodeBuddy as open source under the MIT license.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Maintainer
- CodeBuddy is developed in the open by a single maintainer, Oyinlola Olasunkanmi Raymond.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Model providers
- It supports nine LLM providers, including local models through Ollama, LM Studio, and Docker.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Models
- It supports cloud model providers and local models through Ollama, LM Studio, Docker, and OpenRouter.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Notable limit
- At-rest encryption with SQLCipher is listed as being on the roadmap.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- CodeBuddy is a free, open-source coding agent that plans changes, edits files, and runs terminal commands in an editor.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Approval controls
- Every shell invocation and destructive write requires explicit approval, and catastrophic command patterns are denied across permission profiles.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Review and approval
- File writes go through a review gate and shell commands require modal approval before execution.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
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