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Sending a message

Starting a new conversation

Using chat

Use Chat to explore your codebase, quickly get up to speed on unfamiliar code, and get help working through a technical problem.

Chat

Augment

Augment is the developer AI platform that helps you understand code, debug issues, and ship faster because it understands your codebase. Use Chat, Next Edit, and Code Completions to get more done.

Introduction

Augment is the developer AI for teams that deeply understands your codebase and how you build software. Your code, your dependencies, and your best practices are all at your fingertips.

Quickstart

Augment in Visual Studio Code gives you powerful code completions, transformations, and chat capabilities integrated into your favorite code editor.

Install extension

Install Augment for Visual Studio Code

Augment integrates with your IDE to provide keyboard shortcuts for common actions. Use these shortcuts to quickly accept suggestions, write code, and navigate your codebase.

Keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts for Visual Studio Code

When your workspace is indexed, Augment can provide tailored code suggestions and answers based on your unique codebase, best practices, coding patterns, and preferences. You can always control what files are indexed.

Index your workspace

You can add additional context to your workspace–such as additional repositories and folders–to give Augment a full view of your system.

Adding additional context

Add context to your workspace

Use Agent to complete simple and complex tasks across your workflow–implementing a feature, upgrade a dependency, or writing a pull request.

Using Agent

Use Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers with Augment to expand Augment's capabilities with external tools and data sources.

Configure MCP servers

Setup Model Context Protocol servers

Configure integrations for Augment Agent to access external services like GitHub, Linear, and Notion.

Configure integrations

Agent Integrations

Using Chat

You can specify context from files, folders, and external documentation in your conversation to focus your chat responses.

Focusing Context

Focusing Context in Chat

Code Blocks

Applying code blocks from Chat

Actions let you take common actions on code blocks without leaving Chat. Explain, improve, or find everything you need to know about your codebase.

Quick Actions

Using Actions in Chat

You can provide custom guidelines written in natural language to improve Chat with your preferences, best practices, styles, and technology stack.

Guidelines

Guidelines for Chat

Using natural language to interact with your codebase unlocks a whole new way of working. Learn how to get the most out of Chat with the following example prompts.

Example Prompts

Example Prompts for Chat

Use Next Edit to flow through complex changes across your codebase. Cut down the time you spend on repetitive work like refactors, library upgrades, and schema changes.


Next Edit

Use Instructions to write or modify blocks of code using natural language. Refactor a function, write unit tests, or craft any prompt to transform your code.

Instructions

Use code completions to get more done. Augment's radical context awareness means more relevant suggestions, fewer hallucinations, and less time hunting down documentation.

Completions

Are you ready for your new superpowers? Augment in JetBrains IDEs gives you powerful code completions integrated into your favorite text editor.

Install Augment for JetBrains IDEs

Keyboard Shortcuts for JetBrains IDEs

Augment for Vim and Neovim gives you powerful code completions and chat capabilities integrated into your favorite code editor.

Install plugin

Install Augment for Vim and Neovim

Augment flexibly integrates with your editor to provide keyboard shortcuts for common actions. Customize your keymappings to quickly accept suggestions and chat with Augment.

Commands and shortcuts

Commands and shortcuts for Vim and Neovim

Workspace context

Use code completions to get more done. Augment’s radical context awareness means more relevant suggestions, fewer hallucinations, and less time hunting down documentation.

Ask Augment questions about your codebase right in Slack.

Install Slack App

Install Augment for Slack

Chat with Augment directly in Slack to explore your codebase, get instant help, and collaborate with your team on technical problems.

Using Augment in Slack

Using Augment for Slack

Disable additional code assistants, like GitHub Copilot, to avoid conflicts and unexpected behavior.

Disable GitHub Copilot

We love feedback, and want to hear from you. We want to make the best AI-powered code assistant so you can get more done.

Feedback

Request IDs are generated with every code suggestion and chat interaction. Our team may ask you to provide the request ID when you report a bug or issue.

Request IDs

Fix issue where the Augment Chat panel takes focus while typing in JetBrains IDEs.

Chat panel steals focus

JetBrains IDEs

Vim and Neovim

Visual Studio Code

After you have installed the Augment extension, you will need to sign in to your account.

Command	Action
:Augment chat <message>	Send a chat message to Augment
:Augment chat-new	Start a new chat conversation
:Augment chat-toggle	Toggle the chat panel visibility

Getting Started

Visual Studio Code

JetBrains IDEs

Vim and Neovim

Slack

Troubleshooting

Chat

Using chat

Sending a message

Starting a new conversation

Next steps

Getting Started

Visual Studio Code

JetBrains IDEs

Vim and Neovim

Slack

Troubleshooting

​Using chat

​Sending a message

​Starting a new conversation

Next steps

Using chat

Sending a message

Starting a new conversation