Disable AI Assistant

Last modified: 11 February 2024

You can restrict the use of AI Assistant if you do not want to share source code with third parties.

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Learn more about data sharing from How we handle your code and data.

Disable AI Assistant for the current project

You can disable AI Assistant for the project that is currently open in your PyCharm.

  1. Click AI Assistant in the bottom-right corner.

  2. Select the Disable for This Project option.

    Option to disable AI Assistant for current project

Note that AI Assistant icons in the toolbars and AI actions in the context menu will still be visible, but not available.

Restrict usage of AI Assistant for a project

  • Create an empty file named .noai in the root directory of the project.

When this file is present, all AI Assistant features are fully disabled for the project. Even if this project is opened in another IDE, the AI Assistant features will not be available.

Note that this file affects only the JetBrains AI Assistant plugin and does not affect any third-party AI integration plugins for JetBrains IDEs or other tools that may send code to external LLMs (Large Language Model).

Permanently disable AI Assistant

To disable AI Assistant on the IDE level, you can disable the AI Assistant plugin.

  1. Click AI Assistant in the bottom-right corner.

    Option to disable AI Assistant for current project

  2. Click More and select the Disable Permanently via Plugin option.

    Disable the AI Assistant completely

  3. On the plugin's description pane that opens, click Disable and restart PyCharm.

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For more information about enabling and disabling AI Assistant on a company level, refer to How to enable AI Assistant for companies.