Alibaba Smart VSCode Extension is an open-source Visual Studio Code plugin that transforms the IDE into an interactive AI agent environment. By abstracting communication with bot frameworks like ChatGPT, it provides developers with a chat widget, customizable triggers, and code action integrations. Users define agent roles, pipeline steps, and plugins via a simple configuration file, while the extension handles session management, API requests, and UI rendering. This enables rapid prototyping of chat-driven features, on-the-fly code generation, and contextual knowledge retrieval from internal docs, all within VSCode. Teams can extend the extension with custom connectors, event hooks, and middleware, making it a versatile framework for building AI assistants directly in the editor.

Julep AI is a comprehensive agent builder that lets developers and non-technical users create intelligent assistants without writing code. Users access the docs.julep.ai portal to configure agents, define intents, upload knowledge bases, and integrate services like Zapier, Google Sheets, and custom APIs. The platform supports advanced LLM orchestration, memory management, and custom prompt engineering. Agents can be deployed to websites, messaging apps, or internal tools via SDKs and webhooks. Additionally, Julep offers enterprise features such as role-based access control, team collaboration, usage analytics, and multi-model support, enabling businesses to automate support, data retrieval, and workflow automation.