Sourcegraph unveils AI coding agents

Looking to challenge well-established GitHub Copilot in AI-powered coding assistance, Sourcegraph has announced coding agents for code review, code migration, testing, documentation, and notification, along with an API for building custom agents.

Sourcegraph made the announcement on January 29. The Code Review Agent and the Agent API are available via early access programs, whereas the other agents will become available in the coming months, the company said. Sourcegraph also announced auto-edit for Sourcegraph Cody for Visual Studio Code, an AI-powered feature that suggests edits in a current file and elsewhere based on recent edits and instant code review, testing, and documentation feedback from agents. The company said it began to roll out auto-edit for Cody users today.

Sourcegraph also announced a unified experience for code search, chat, and agents in the editor, code review, and on the web, powered by an agentic RAG layer for greater accuracy. With agentic chat enabled, Sourcegraph Cody gains access to a suite of tools for retrieving and refining context including code search, code base files, the terminal, web browser searches, and any OpenCtx-compatible development tools.