Shofer
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Shofer, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Shofer's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Open source | Free | Apache 2.0 · pay only for your own API tokens, or $0 with local models |
The facts
Each one read from Shofer's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Built-in modes
- Shofer includes Code, Architect, Debug, Code Search, Web Search, and Reviewer modes, with scoped tool access and custom mode support.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Chat assistance
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Codebase indexing
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Codebase memory
- A persistent read-only assistant agent uses a local semantic index to retain codebase knowledge across sessions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Code search
- Shofer indexes code and Git history incrementally using tree-sitter chunking, with a backend and embedding model chosen by the user.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Coding agent
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Shofer supports MCP servers and LSP-powered symbol renaming and usage lookup through the language server.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Model providers
- Shofer supports bring-your-own-model, including Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, xAI, Bedrock, and local models through Ollama or LM Studio.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Notable limit
- The site states that kernel-level Git worktree command sandboxing is available only on Linux.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Parallel tasks
- Users can run independent sessions in a task tree, queue messages, and launch background subtasks with parent-child communication.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Shofer is an open-source AI coding agent for VS Code that runs declarative multi-agent workflows and displays them as live diagrams.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Sandboxing
- On Linux, shell commands can run in a Landlock/bwrap OS-level sandbox confined to the active Git worktree.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security and privacy
- The site says Shofer runs locally and that no remote server processes the workspace; it also describes local indexes and OS-level command sandboxing.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The site links to Discord for help and feedback, Reddit for community discussion, and GitHub Issues for bug reports and feature requests.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported IDEs
- Visual Studio Codechecked 22 Sep 2026
- Terminal access
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Visualization
- Workflow views include topology, sequence, and swimlane diagrams, runtime statistics, and filterable session logs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Workflow analysis
- Its Slang workflows are statically analyzable for deadlocks and orphan agents and run through a deterministic scheduler.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Cost controls
- Users can set per-session USD budgets that pause or abort the agent loop when the limit is reached.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
The company
- Maker
- The site identifies the maker as Shofer, Inc.checked 11 Oct 2026
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