Published 2025-10-19.
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llm collection.
CodeGPT features an AI assistant creator (or GPTs), an Agent Marketplace, a Copilot for software engineers, and an API for advanced solutions. The CodeGPT Visual Studio Code extension works with many models from many vendors. Including Claude Sonnet 4.5.
$ code --install-extension DanielSanMedium.dscodegpt
I had to give my GitHub email to Judin Labs to sign up and use the extension.
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To display the CodeGPT pane, I pressed CTRL+SHIFT+P,
then typed
codegpt. - One of the choices that appeared was View show CodeGPT Chat, which I selected.
- CTRL+ALT+B revealed the alternate sidebar.
- Then I carefully clicked on the CodeGPT heading in the sidebar, and dragged it to the alternate (right) sidebar, where I prefer to chat.
- Clicking on the settings icon displayed the following:
Clicking on the person icon at the top right of the CodeGPT panel displayed this in my web browser:
Ah, yet another money grab. A few days after installation, at 7:30 AM on a Sunday (ET) I saw an alert in Visual Studio saying that the CodeGPT servers were overloaded and that autocomplete might not work. The message urged me to upgrade to Pro; apparently only the free service was affected. That felt bogus, so I deleted the extension instead.
I will continue trying to get the Claude Code for VS Code extension to work instead.
