Chat with AI
This functionality relies on the AI Assistant plugin that requires an additional license.
For more information about licensing and enabling AI Assistant, refer to JetBrains AI Service licensing and Enable AI Assistant plugin.
Use the AI Assistant tool window to have a conversation with the LLM (Large Language Model), ask questions about your project, or iterate on a task.
AI Assistant takes into consideration the language and technologies used in your project, as well as local changes and version control system commits. You can search for files, classes, and element usages.
Click
AI Assistant on the right toolbar to open AI Assistant.
In the input field, type your question and press Enter to submit your query.
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Each generated code snippet or a selected fragment within it can be quickly inserted into the editor at the caret position by clicking
in its top right corner.
AI Assistant keeps the chats during one IDE session. You can find the saved chats in the All Chats list.

Names of the chats are generated automatically and contain the summary of the initial query.
If you want AI Assistant to provide you with a bit more precise answers, you can enable the smart chat mode in Settings | Tools | AI Assistant.

With this option enabled, AI Assistant might send additional details, such as file types, frameworks used, and any other information that may be necessary for providing context to the LLM.
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Learn more about data sharing from How we handle your code and data.
You can create a new file with the AI-generated code right from the AI Assistant chat.
In the upper-right corner of the field with the generated code, click
Create File from Snippet.
AI Assistant will create a file with the AI-generated code.
If you have any file opened or selected in the Project tool window Alt01, the new file will be created in the same folder as the selected file.
In other cases, the new file will be created in the root project folder.
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If you want the new file to be added to a specific folder, select this folder in the Project tool window Alt01 before creating the new file.
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