Code Web Chat is a chatbot-first AI coding tool. Start in VS Code (Cursor, Antigravity, VSCodium, etc.), then continue in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc. or Bring Your Own Key to stay in the editor!

CWC is free and privacy-first.

Get involved! Join our discord server.

Tip

Elevate your workflow with smart workspaces (called projects, gems, or spaces).

Introduction

This independent project aims to provide developers with a complete set of free tools for fast, accurate and efficient pair programming with AI that augument, not cancel, traditional coding.

CWC creates a zero-learning-curve workflow integrating context file selection with prompt writing, making them simpler and easier to iterate on.

Tip

Get help in file selection using many included static tools and Find Relevant Files prompt type.

Privacy

CWC operates 100% on your machine—no code, prompts or usage data are collected. For transparency, all source code is available on GitHub for audit.

Prompt types

At its core, CWC constructs simple, markdown-formatted prompts for common use-cases (click to expand) you can copy and paste into chatbot of choice or send directly from the editor via an API call.

Edit files

Accurate and fast multi-file edits in a single response.

# Files
[full contents of selected files with paths]

# System
[edit format instructions (~250 tokens)]

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[prompt]

Ask about files

Get help with whatever you're up to.

# Files
[full contents of selected files with paths]

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[prompt]

Code at cursor

TAB completions from SOTA reasoning models.

# Files
[full contents of selected files with paths]

### File: `[active file]`
```
[code before cursor]<missing_text>[prompt]</missing_text>[code after cursor]
```

[instructions for the missing text]

Find relevant files

Select files relevant to a natural language query.

# Files
[broad file selection]

# System
[response format instructions]

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Find a complete set of files relevant to the following query. Include the primary files as well as any structural files.
[prompt]

Enabling autofill

Install the browser extension and never copy and paste again.

• Chrome Web Store
• Firefox Add-ons

Supported chatbots:

• AI Studio
• Arena
• ChatGPT
• Claude
• Copilot
• DeepSeek
• Doubao
• Gemini
• GitHub Copilot
• Grok
• HuggingChat
• Kimi
• Meta
• Mistral
• Open WebUI
• OpenRouter
• Qwen
• Together
• Yuanbao
• Z

Important

The Apply response button placed under responses is not a means of automatic output extraction, it's an alias for the original copy to clipboard button. Review the content script to learn about implementation details.

Note

Use forwarding of port 55155 when using remote machine via SSH.

Prompt caching

CWC orders context files by modification and selection recency. This, combined with instructions placement at the message's very end effecively utilizes prompt caching across tasks.

Make your chatbot quota last longer, lower input token costs by up to 90%, and reduce latency by up to 80%!

Commands

Code at Cursor

• Code at Cursor - Get an inline snippet while using the current context.
• Code at Cursor using... - Inline snippet with configuration selection.
• Code at Cursor with Instructions - Inline snippet with instructions.
• Code at Cursor with Instructions using... - Inline snippet with instructions and configuration selection.

Context

• Save File Selection... - Save the current context.
• Restore File Selection... - Restore a saved context.
• Select Workspace File... - Select a file from the workspace.
• Search Files... - Select files based on a search query.
• Select Clipboard Paths... - Select files based on paths in your clipboard.
• Select Unstaged Files... - Select files with unstaged changes.
• Select Files of Commit... - Select files modified in a specific commit.
• Select Changed Files... - Select changed files compared to a branch.

Copy

• Copy Markdown - Copy contents of selected files to the clipboard.
• Copy Markdown of Open Editors - Copy contents of open editors to the clipboard.
• Copy Paths - Copy paths of selected files to the clipboard.
• Copy Paths of Open Editors - Copy paths of open editors to the clipboard.

Commit messages

• Commit Changes - Generate commit message in your preferred style and commit.

History

• History - Manage saved states of the workspace.
• Create New Checkpoint - Create a history entry of the workspace state.

Actions

• Apply Chat Response - Apply a chat response to the codebase.

Misc

• Duplicate Workspace - Open a duplicate workspace preserving context.

Build from source

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v20.x recommended)
• pnpm

Steps

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/robertpiosik/CodeWebChat.git && cd CodeWebChat
2. Install workspace dependencies: pnpm install
3. Navigate to the editor app and build the package: cd apps/editor && pnpm run build
4. Install the generated .vsix file in VS Code: Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P), run Extensions: Install from VSIX..., and select the newly created file.

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