Oda in VS Code

Use DataMind Oda in VS Code: sign in, chat with your selections, review suggested changes, write commit messages and manage chats.

• The Oda extension for VS Code

  Chat with Oda inside VS Code, add selections and terminal output, write commit messages, and keep the background service in step.

• Inline and next-edit suggestions

  Turn on Oda's inline and next-edit suggestions in VS Code, accept with Tab, and understand the checks, budgets and pauses.

• Commit messages with Oda

  Generate a commit message from your staged changes, and what Oda reads to write it.

• Components for the extension

  Manage the Python, Office and computer-use components, and how downloads verify, reuse and prune.

• Extension commands, settings and limits

  Every VS Code command, keybinding and setting the Oda extension adds, and the messages you may meet.

• Settings in the VS Code panel

  The VS Code panel's settings: components, your DataMind connection, the suggestion switches, and the keyboard list.

• Past chats in VS Code

  Browse, search, rename and archive the chats you had in this VS Code window, and stop a running one to archive it.

• Selections and file references in VS Code

  Send VS Code selections and terminal output to Oda, point it at files with @ references, and paste or drag files in.

• Review Oda's changes in VS Code

  Review proposed edits in VS Code: per-block comment threads, accept or reject changes, and reject with instructions.

• Sign in to Oda in VS Code

  Sign in to your DataMind server from VS Code, and bring over chats, memories, skills, hooks and MCP servers from the desktop app.

• Fix problems with the Oda extension

  Fix common Oda extension problems: restart a stopped background service, reinstall after a runtime notice, update, and find the details in the output channels.