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 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

name	model download (HuggingFace)	model download (OpenBayes)
DeepSeek 6.7B	AutoDev Coder	AutoDev Coder

Language Features

Language Support

We follow Chapi AST analysis engine for language support tier.

Features	Java	Python	Go	Kotlin	JS/TS	C/C++	C#	Scala	Rust
Chat Language Context	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅			✅
Structure AST	✅		✅	✅	✅	✅
Doc Generation	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅				✅
Precision Test Generation	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅				✅
Precision Code Generation	✅			✅

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

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.