AutoDev for Intellij

🧙‍AutoDev: The AI-powered coding wizard with multilingual support 🌐, auto code generation 🏗️, and a helpful bug-slaying assistant 🐞! Customizable prompts 🎨 and a magic Auto Dev/Testing/Document/Agent feature 🧪 included! 🚀

AutoDev 3.0 - Multiplatform Revolution 🚀

Rebuilt with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) to deliver a truly cross-platform AI Coding Agent ecosystem.

Current Versions:

• IntelliJ Plugin: v2.4.6
• New Intellij Plugin: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/29223-autodev-experiment
• MPP Modules (Core/UI/Server): v0.3.4
• VSCode Extension: v0.5.x

📦 Core Modules

🖥️ Client Applications

⚙️ Server & Tools

🌟 Key Features

• Unified Codebase: Core logic shared across all platforms - write once, run everywhere
• Native Performance: Compiled natively for each platform with zero overhead
• Full AI Agent: Built-in Coding Agent, tool system, multi-LLM support (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Ollama, etc.)
• DevIns Language: Executable AI Agent scripting language
• MCP Protocol: Model Context Protocol support for extensible tool ecosystem
• Code Understanding: TreeSitter-based multi-language parsing (Java, Kotlin, Python, JS, TS, Go, Rust, C#)
• Internationalization: Chinese/English UI support

🔗 Links

• Web Demo: https://unit-mesh.github.io/auto-dev/
• VSCode Extension: Visual Studio Marketplace
• CLI Tool: npm install -g @autodev/cli

AutoDev 2.0 - the Cursor Composer in Intellij IDEA

Video demo (YouTube) — English

AutoDev Sketch is an IDE canvas feature provided by Shire, designed to simplify interactions and enhance the developer experience within the IDE.

Sketch Name	Description	Screenshots
Code Sketch	Real-time code editor with syntax highlighting
Diff Sketch	Diff content comparison tool with patch handling
Terminal Sketch	Editable pop-up terminal interface and integration with other sketch, like frontend dev localhost in WebView
WebView Sketch	HTML/React/Ionic mockup generator with WebView display
OpenAPI Sketch*	OpenAPI editor with bidirectional code-OpenAPI synchronization
Dependency Sketch*	Security-builtin vulnerable dependency checker
Go Playground Sketch*	Go Playground with bidirectional code preview/edit
Mermaid Sketch*	Real-time flowchart preview/edit with bidirectional binding
PlantUML Sketch*	UML diagram editor with bidirectional code-diagram synchronization
PlanSketch	Display AutoDev Planner planning for resolving code issues
CodeTopologySketch	Display code topology for current file

* means requires additional plugin installation.

Unite Your Dev Ecosystem, Create Your AI Copilot

VSCode Version: https://github.com/unit-mesh/auto-dev-vscode

Quick Start →

🆕🆕🆕: New AI agent language: https://github.com/phodal/shire

Demos

Video demo (Bilibili) - 中文/Chinese

AutoDev Architecture

Here is the AutoDev architecture:

AutoDev 1.0~ Feature Overview

Features:

• Sketch coding Agent
  • Agentic drive coding workflow with Sketch viewer.
• Auto development mode
  • AutoCRUD (Spring framework）. With DevTi Protocol (like devti://story/github/1102) will auto generate Model-Controller-Service-Repository code.
  • AutoSQL (required Database plugin). Context-aware SQL generation.
  • AutoPage (React). Context-aware Web Page generation.
  • AutoArkUI (HarmonyOS). Auto generate HarmonyOS ArkUI code.
  • Auto Testing. create unit test intention, auto run unit test and try to fix test.
  • Auto Document. Auto generate document.
• Copilot mode
  • AutoDev will help you find bug, explain code, trace exception, generate commits, and more.
  • Pattern specific. Based on your code context like (Controller, Service import), AutoDev will suggest the best code to you.
  • Related code. Based on recent file changes, AutoDev will call calculate similar chunk to generate the best code.
• Chat with AI. Chat with selection code and context-aware code.
• Customize.
  • Custom specification of prompt. For example, Controller, Service, Repository, Model, etc.
  • Custom intention action. You can add your own intention action.
  • Custom LLM Server. You can customize your LLM Server in Settings -> Tools -> AutoDev
  • Custom Living documentation. Customize your own living documentation, like annotation.
  • Team AI. Customize your team prompts in codebase, and distribute to your team.
  • Prompt override. You can override AutoDev's prompt in your codebase.
• SDLC
  • VCS. Generate/improve commit message, release note, and more.
  • Code Review. Generate code-review content.
  • Smart Refactoring. AI based Rename, refactoring with code smell, refactoring suggetion and more.
  • Dockerfile. Based on your project, generate Dockerfile.
  • CI/CD config. Based on build tool, generate CI/CD config file, like .github/workflows/build.yml.
  • Terminal. In Terminal ToolWindow, you can use custom input to generate shell/command
• Custom AI Agent
  • Executable AI Agent language: DevIns.
  • Custom AI Agent. You can integrate your own AI Agent into AutoDev.
• Model
  • Built-in LLM Fine-tune
  • UnitEval evaluate llm result
  • UnitGen generate code-llm fine-tune data.

AutoDev fine-tune models:

download from HuggingFace

Language Features

Language Support

We follow Chapi AST analysis engine for language support tier.

Extensions

see in exts

Useful Links

• Copilot-Explorer Hacky repo to see what the Copilot extension sends to the server.
• GitHub Copilot a small part of Copilot Performance logs.
• 花了大半个月，我终于逆向分析了Github Copilot

Who is using AutoDev?

Welcome to add your company here.

• Thoughtworks, a leading technology consultancy.

License

• @autodev/cli Inspired and Tools system based on Google Gemini CLI withApache License 2.0

Inspired by:

• Multiple target inspired by: https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust
• SimilarFile inspired by: GitHub Copilot
• DevIn Language refs on JetBrains' Markdown Util, which is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
• Stream Diff based on Continue Dev under the Apache 2.0 license.
• Ripgrep inspired by Cline under the Apache 2.0 license.
• MCP based on JetBrains' MCP

This code is distributed under the MPL 2.0 license. See LICENSE in this directory.