Sourcegraph Cody

At a glance

What Sourcegraph Cody does

Chat, Auto-edit, Commands, Prompts, Cross-repo context, Debug, Context filters

Best for

Cross-repo AI coding assistant with Sourcegraph code search and context

Works well with

Conflicts & caveats

• Sourcegraph Cody does not officially support Cursor — use VS Code, JetBrains, or Visual Studio.
• Replit has its own built-in AI Agent — external integrations like Sourcegraph Cody cannot run inside the Replit web IDE.
• Sourcegraph Cody does not officially support Xcode. Use GitHub Copilot for Xcode or Direct API.
• Sourcegraph Cody has limited or no official Android Studio support. Use GitHub Copilot or JetBrains AI Assistant.
• Void Editor is BYO-API-key first — Sourcegraph Cody runs as an extension on top, which can work but isn't the intended Void workflow.
• Lapce has a small plugin ecosystem; Sourcegraph Cody may not have an official plugin yet.
• Positron is VS Code-based but tuned for R/Python data science — Sourcegraph Cody may install but is not officially supported.
• Sourcegraph Cody does not officially support RStudio — use direct API calls or the rstudio.cloud Copilot integration.
• Sourcegraph Cody does not officially support Spyder — use the direct API.
• Cursor Mobile only runs Cursor-managed agents and background tasks — local-only integrations like Sourcegraph Cody cannot run on the phone.
• Sourcegraph Cody does not officially support Eclipse — Copilot, Tabnine, and Codeium are the main supported options.
• Sourcegraph Cody does not officially support Apache NetBeans — Copilot and Tabnine are the main supported options.
• @codebase (Cursor) only works with Cursor built-in integration (yours is Sourcegraph Cody).
• Continue's codebase indexing only works when the integration is Continue.dev (yours is Sourcegraph Cody).
• Windsurf codebase indexing only works with Windsurf Cascade integration (yours is Sourcegraph Cody).
• Aider architect mode requires the Aider integration (yours is Sourcegraph Cody).