Cody

Cody is Sourcegraph's AI coding assistant that lives inside your editor and answers, completes, and edits code using context pulled from your whole codebase. Its differentiator is Sourcegraph's code intelligence: instead of seeing only the open file, Cody fetches relevant definitions, references, and files across the repository (and, on Enterprise, across many repositories) so its responses are grounded in how your code actually works.

It is aimed at engineering teams working in large, multi-repo codebases where context is the bottleneck — where knowing which function to call, where a type is defined, or how a pattern is used elsewhere matters more than raw generation speed.

Highlights

• Codebase context — Cody uses Sourcegraph's Search API to fetch relevant code as context, so chat and edits reference real definitions and usages rather than guessing from the open file alone.
• Chat — ask questions about your code, generate new code, and apply edits inline, with the conversation grounded in the files Cody retrieves.
• Auto-edit — contextual, multi-line suggestions that react to your cursor and recent changes as you type.
• Prompts — reusable, customizable prompt templates for recurring workflows like writing tests, explaining code, or documenting a function.
• Context Filters — admins can control which repositories are allowed to inform Cody's responses, keeping sensitive code out of context.
• Editor reach — VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio (experimental), the Sourcegraph web app, and a command-line interface (Cody CLI).

In an AI-assisted workflow

Cody fits teams who already run Sourcegraph for code search. The strongest loop is asking questions that span files: instead of grepping for where a behavior lives, you ask Cody and it retrieves the relevant code as context before answering.

@graphql/schema.ts How is the `User` type resolved, and where are
its resolvers registered? Then add a `lastSeenAt` field end to end.

Good to know

Cody is available in VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio (experimental), the web app, and via CLI. It is now part of the Sourcegraph Enterprise plan only: the Cody Free and Cody Pro tiers were discontinued on July 23, 2025 (new signups closed June 25, 2025).