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! 🚀

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

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

AutoDev 2.0 Sketch - 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

* means requires additional plugin installation.

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Demos

Video demo (Bilibili) - 中文/Chinese

AutoDev Architecture

Here is the AutoDev architecture:

AutoDev 1.0~ Feature Overview

Features:

• Languages support: Java, Kotlin, JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, Python, Golang, C/C++/OC (TBC), or others...
• 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.
  • AutoTesting. create unit test intention, auto run unit test and try to fix test.
  • AutoDocument. 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](https://openbayes.com/console/phodal/models/rCmer1KQSgp/9/overview)

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	ArkTS
Chat Language Context	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅			✅	✅
Structure AST	✅		✅	✅	✅	✅
Doc Generation	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅				✅	✅
Precision Test Generation	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅				✅
Precision Code Generation	✅			✅
AutoCRUD	✅			✅

Extensions

see in exts

Demo

DevIns Language demo (Bilibili) - 中文

Video demo (YouTube) — English

Video demo (Bilibili) - 中文

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.