Gunamaya AI

Meet Gunamaya AI

Gunamaya AI is Gunamaya's native AI pair programmer — built directly into the workbench, not bolted on as an extension talking to someone else's backend.

Gunamaya AI lives in the secondary side bar by default, right next to your code. It reads your open files and workspace for context, proposes changes as normal diffs you review before anything is written, and runs entirely on the model provider you connect — there's no proprietary backend in between, and no telemetry about your conversations leaving your machine beyond the API calls you've explicitly configured.

Plan & Act Modes

Think before editing. Plan mode maps out an approach; Act mode makes the change with your approval at each step.

Models & Providers

Bring your own API key for the model you trust, and switch providers per conversation or per task.

Tools, Rules & Context

What Gunamaya AI can do to your workspace, how to steer it with project rules, and how it decides what context to read.

Privacy & Data

What stays local, what's sent to your chosen provider, and how to review or clear stored conversation history.

Opening Gunamaya AI

1

Open the panel

Press Ctrl+Alt+I (Cmd+Ctrl+I on macOS), click the Gunamaya AI icon in the Activity Bar, or search "Gunamaya AI" from the Command Palette.

2

Connect a model

The first time you send a message, Gunamaya AI prompts you to configure a model provider if one isn't set up yet. See Models & Providers.

3

Start a conversation

Ask a question, describe a change, or paste an error message. Gunamaya AI automatically includes your currently open file as context — mention other files by typing @ followed by a filename to pull in more.

What Gunamaya AI can do

Explain unfamiliar code, a stack trace, or how a change would ripple through your codebase.
Plan a multi-step change and lay out the approach before touching anything.
Edit files directly, showing every change as a reviewable diff.
Run commands in the integrated terminal, with your approval for anything that isn't trivially safe.
Drive the Integrated Browser to click through a running app and confirm a fix actually works — see Web App Automation.

The settings surface

Gunamaya AI's own settings — separate from Gunamaya's general editor settings — are organized into focused sections: Model (provider and API key configuration), Tools & MCP (which tools and Model Context Protocol servers are available), Features (toggles for individual capabilities), Terminal (how Gunamaya AI executes shell commands), Hooks (run your own scripts on specific events), Plugins, Rules, Skills, and Subagents. Open all of it from the gear icon next to the chat input, or search "Gunamaya AI" in the Command Palette.

Not a chat extension

If you've used an AI extension in another editor before, the biggest difference is that Gunamaya AI isn't sandboxed behind an extension API — it has the same first-class access to the editor, terminal, and Integrated Browser that built-in features do, which is what lets it actually run and test what it writes instead of only describing changes.