AI for Software Development That Knows Your Codebase
Ask questions in plain English and get answers sourced from your own code, not generic tutorials or outdated docs.
Six things grep and Ctrl+F can't do
Ask in plain English
Type the question you would normally ask a teammate on Slack. Get an answer sourced from your actual code.
Multi-repo search
Search across every service in the org at once, not one repo at a time with grep.
Architecture explainers
See how a request actually flows through your services, generated from the code, not a stale wiki page.
Cited answers
Every answer links back to the file and line it came from, so you can verify it in seconds.
Faster onboarding
New engineers ask the tool the questions they would otherwise interrupt a teammate to ask.
Private by default
Your code stays in your environment. Nothing is used to train a shared model.
From connected repo to cited answer
No new workflow to learn. Ask the question you already have, in the words you already use.
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Connect your repos
Point codebasechat at your GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket org. Indexing runs in the background and does not block anyone's work.
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Ask a real question
Type what you would ask a teammate on Slack: where is auth handled, or what calls this function, in plain sentences.
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Get a cited answer
Read a direct answer with file and line references attached, not a wall of matching search results you still have to read.
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Ship or onboard faster
Spend the time you saved writing code or ramping up a new hire, instead of losing an afternoon to code archaeology.
Onboarding a new engineer without interrupting the team
New hires ask the same handful of questions in their first two weeks: where is auth, how do these two services talk to each other, why does this config exist. Each interruption pulls a teammate out of focus. codebasechat answers those questions directly from the code, so the new engineer gets unblocked without waiting for someone to context-switch.
- Answers sourced from the actual repo, not a stale onboarding doc
- New hires self-serve instead of pinging the team channel
- Senior engineers reclaim the hours they used to spend explaining
Understanding a service nobody remembers writing
Every team has that one service: no docs, original author long gone, and the only way in is git blame and grep. codebasechat reads the code itself and answers questions about it directly, so you can trace how it works before you touch it, not after you have broken something in production.
- Trace a request path across files without opening a dozen tabs
- Ask why a function exists before you refactor it
- Works on legacy code with zero documentation
codebasechat vs. general-purpose AI coding tools
Copilot and Cursor are built to write new code. codebasechat is built to explain the code you already have.
| Capability | codebasechat | GitHub Copilot | Cursor |
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| Answers questions about your whole codebase | Yes | Limited to open files | Limited to open files |
| Multi-repo, cross-service search | Yes | No | No |
| Cites file and line for every answer | Yes | No | Partial, inside editor only |
| Primary job | Explain existing code | Write new code | Write new code |
| Usable without opening an IDE | Yes | No | No |
Common questions
Does codebasechat train a model on our code?
Does it work across multiple repos?
How is this different from GitHub Copilot?
Does it replace code review?
What if the codebase has no documentation?
How long does setup take?
Can a junior engineer use it without supervision?
Does it work with a monorepo?
Stop losing hours to code archaeology
Connect your repos and ask the first question free. No credit card required.