About Refact.ai
Refact.ai is an open-source AI agent for VS Code and JetBrains that autonomously works through coding tasks. The README describes it as a local-first AI coding assistant with IDE chat and tool-powered workflows. The repository is now a legacy archive, and Refact Cloud has been shut down.
Key features
- 01VS Code and JetBrains support
- 02IDE chat
- 03Autonomous agent workflows
- 04Tool-powered development
- 05Local-first design
Use cases
- 01Completing coding tasks inside the IDE
- 02Running multi-step development workflows with tools
Details
From the project README
Refact
Open-source, local-first AI coding assistant for IDE chat, autonomous agent workflows, and tool-powered development.
Important
This repository is kept as the legacy archive for the original Refact project and is no longer the active development home. Ongoing development has moved to JegernOUTT/refact; please use that repository for new issues, pull requests, and future updates.
Refact Cloud has been retired. Read the announcement: Refact Cloud is shutting down.
License
Refact is distributed under the BSD-3-Clause license. See the repository license for details.
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