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cindy
Cindy is an open-source AI agent that runs locally on your machine, integrates multiple AI harnesses and models, and provides memory, skills, and automation to perform real work in your projects and apps.
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FR-AI / ANALYSISWhy it is worth attention
This repository is the core codebase behind one of the most widely used code editors, with transparent development, monthly updates, and a large community of contributors and extension authors.
Who it is for
- Developers looking for a free, extensible code editor
- Open-source contributors interested in editor development
- VS Code extension authors and maintainers
- Teams wanting to customize or build their own editor distribution
Use cases
- Daily code editing, navigation, and debugging
- Building and testing VS Code from source
- Creating and publishing extensions
- Participating in the open-source development process
Strengths
- MIT license enables broad reuse and customization
- Strong community engagement with feature requests, bug tracking, and roadmaps
- Rich extensibility model with thousands of available extensions
- Regular monthly releases and continuous Insiders builds
Considerations
- Official Visual Studio Code includes Microsoft-specific customizations under a different license
- Building from source requires significant hardware resources (4+ cores, 6+ GB RAM)
- Some features (e.g., certain debug adapters) live in separate repositories
README quick start
Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS")
The Repository
This repository ("Code - OSS") is where we (Microsoft) develop the Visual Studio Code product together with the community. Not only do we work on code and issues here, but we also publish our roadmap, monthly iteration plans, and our endgame plans. This source code is available to everyone under the standard MIT license.
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a distribution of the Code - OSS repository with Microsoft-specific customizations released under a traditional Microsoft product license.
Visual Studio Code combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core edit-build-debug cycle. It provides comprehensive code editing, navigation, and understanding support along with lightweight debugging, a rich extensibility model, and lightweight integration with existing tools.
Visual Studio Code is updated monthly with new features and bug fixes. You can download it for Windows, macOS, and Linux on Visual Studio Code's website. To get the latest releases every day, install the Insiders build.
Contributing
There are many ways in which you can participate in this project, for example:
- Submit bugs and feature requests, and help us verify as they are checked in
- Review source code changes
- Review the documentation and make pull requests for anything from typos to new content.
If you are interested in fixing issues and contributing directly to the code base, please see the document [How to Contribute](https:/
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Visual Studio Code
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