Codebuff

As terminal-based AI code assistants go, Codebuff is distinct for the notes it keeps about your project between sessions.

Codebuff is an AI code assistant that lets developers edit codebases and run terminal commands from plain natural language instructions.

It was previously called Manicode.

You type what you want changed, and Codebuff works on the code directly instead of asking you to paste snippets into a chat window.

It indexes the entire codebase and tracks how files depend on each other, so the code it generates reflects the whole project and not one open file.

That matters on larger repositories, where a change under one roof can affect several others.

Codebuff also learns from your conversations and stores what it picks up in markdown files.

Because those notes are ordinary text, you can open and read them yourself.

The workflow is terminal-first, which suits developers who already live on the command line more than those who want a graphical editor plugin.