> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** We have unified our tools into a single, multi-agent platform called Antigravity, with Antigravity CLI now available. Starting June 18, 2026, Gemini Code Assist IDE Extensions and Gemini CLI stopped serving requests for the Gemini Code Assist for individuals, Google AI Pro, and Google AI Ultra tiers. Affected users should migrate to Antigravity and Antigravity CLI. To learn more, see the [deprecation page](https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/docs/deprecations/code-assist-individuals).
This document describes how you can use [Gemini Code Assist](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/overview.md.txt),
an AI-powered collaborator in your IDE, to help you do the following in VS Code
or IntelliJ and other [supported JetBrains IDEs](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/supported-languages.md.txt#supported_ides):
- Generate code for your project with code transformation.
- Receive code completions while you're coding.
- Use smart actions.
If you're using [Gemini Code Assist Enterprise](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/overview.md.txt#editions-overview), you
can use [Code customization](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/code-customization-overview.md.txt),
which lets you get code suggestions based on your organization's private
codebase directly from Gemini Code Assist Enterprise. Learn
[how to configure code customization](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/code-customization.md.txt).
This document is intended for developers of all skill levels. It assumes you
have working knowledge of VS Code or IntelliJ and other supported JetBrains
IDEs, and are familiar with Google Cloud. If you prefer, you can also
explore Gemini Code Assist in
[Cloud Shell Editor](https://docs.cloud.google.com/code/docs/shell/write-code-gemini.md.txt),
[Cloud Workstations](https://docs.cloud.google.com/workstations/docs/write-code-gemini),
and [Android Studio](https://developer.android.com/studio/gemini/overview).
> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** The behaviour of code generation, completion, and transformation are non-deterministic when used simultaneously with other plugins that either implement the same shortcuts and/or use the same platform API to process these actions.
## Before you begin
### VS Code
1. [Set up Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/set-up-gemini.md.txt),
if you haven't already.
2. Before testing Gemini Code Assist capabilities in your
code file, make sure your file's coding language is supported. For more
information on supported coding languages, see
[Supported coding languages](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/supported-languages.md.txt#coding-languages).
3. If you prefer to use your IDE behind a proxy, see
[Network Connections in Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/network).
### IntelliJ
1. [Set up Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/set-up-gemini.md.txt),
if you haven't already.
2. Before testing Gemini Code Assist capabilities in your
code file, make sure your file's coding language is supported. For more
information on supported coding languages, see
[Supported coding languages](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/supported-languages.md.txt#coding-languages).
3. If you prefer to use your IDE behind a proxy, see
[HTTP Proxy](https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/settings-http-proxy.html).
## Generate code with prompts
The following sections show you how to use Gemini Code Assist to
generate code with the example prompt `Function to create a Cloud Storage
bucket` inside your code file. You can also select a part of your code and then
prompt Gemini Code Assist for help through the chat feature, and
receive and accept or reject code suggestions while you code.
### Prompt Gemini Code Assist with code transformation
Code transformation allows you to use commands or natural language prompts in
the Quick Pick menu to request modifications to your code, and provides you with
a diff view to show pending changes to your code. To prompt
Gemini Code Assist with code transformation, follow these steps:
### VS Code
1. In your code file, on a new line, press Control+I (for Windows
and Linux) or Command+I (for macOS) to open the
**Gemini Code Assist Quick Pick** menu.
2. In the menu, using the `/generate` command, enter `/generate function to
create a Cloud Storage bucket` and then press Enter (for Windows
and Linux) or Return (for macOS).
Gemini Code Assist generates the code based on your prompt
in a diff view.
3. Optional: To accept these changes, click **Accept**.
### IntelliJ
1. In your code file, on a new line, press Alt+\ (for Windows and
Linux) or Cmd+\ (for macOS) to open the **Gemini Code Assist
Quick Pick** menu.
2. In the menu, using the `/generate` command, enter `/generate function to
create a Cloud Storage bucket` and then press Enter (for
Windows and Linux) or Return (for macOS).
Gemini Code Assist generates the code based on your prompt
in a diff view.
3. Optional: To accept these changes, click **Accept Changes**.
You can use the following code transformation commands in your IDE:
- `/fix`: Fix issues or errors in your code. Example: `/fix potential
NullPointerExceptions in my code`.
- `/generate`: Generate code. Example: `/generate a function to get the
current time`.
- `/doc`: Add documentation to your code. Example: `/doc this function`.
- `/simplify`: Simplify your code. Example: `/simplify if statement in
this code`.
### Prompt Gemini Code Assist in a code file with a comment
If you prefer, you can also prompt Gemini Code Assist in your
code file with a comment by following these steps:
### VS Code
1. On a new line, enter the comment `Function to create a Cloud Storage
bucket`, and then press Enter (for Windows and Linux) or
Return (for macOS).
2. To generate code, press Control+Enter (for Windows and Linux)
or Control+Return (for macOS).
Next to your prompt text in your code file,
Gemini Code Assist generates the code in the form of ghost
text.
3. Optional: To accept the generated code, press Tab.
### IntelliJ
1. In your code file, on a new line, enter the comment `Function to create a
Cloud Storage bucket`.
2. To generate code, press Alt+G (for Windows and Linux) or
Option+G (for macOS). Alternatively, you can right-click next
to the comment and select **Generate Code**.
Gemini Code Assist generates the code below your comment in
the form of ghost text.
3. Optional: To accept the generated code, press Tab.
### Optional: Change keyboard shortcut for generating code
If the default keyboard shortcut for generating code isn't working as outlined
in the previous section, you can
[change the keyboard shortcut](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/keyboard-shortcuts.md.txt#edit_keyboard_shortcuts).
## Get code completions
While you write code, Gemini Code Assist makes inline code
suggestions, also known as *code completions*, that you can either accept or
ignore. To get code completions, follow these steps:
### VS Code
1. In your code file, on a new line, start writing a function. For example,
if you're in a Python file, write `def`.
Gemini Code Assist suggests code in the form of ghost text.
2. To accept the code suggestion from Gemini Code Assist,
press Tab. Otherwise, to ignore the suggestion, press
Esc or continue writing your code.
### IntelliJ
1. In your code file, on a new line, start writing a function. For example,
if you're in a Python file, write `def`.
Gemini Code Assist suggests code in the form of an inline
suggestion.
2. To accept the code suggestion from Gemini Code Assist,
press Tab. Otherwise, to ignore the suggestion, press
Esc or continue writing your code.
3. Optional: If you prefer to use a different shortcut key to accept the
inline suggestion, hold your pointer over the inline suggestion and click the
**Tab** dropdown that appears. Then, select your preferred shortcut or click
**Custom** to enter your own shortcut.
### Optional: Disable code completion
Code completion is enabled by default. If you want to disable code completion,
follow these steps:
### VS Code
1. In your IDE, click **Code** (for macOS) or **File** (for Windows and
Linux), and then navigate to **Preferences** \> **Settings**.
2. On the **User** tab of the **Settings** dialog, navigate to **Extensions**
\> **Gemini Code Assist**.
3. Scroll until you find the **Geminicodeassist \> Inline Suggestions: Enable Auto**
list, and then select **Off**.
This turns off the inline suggestions. You can still press
Control+Enter (for Windows and Linux) or
Control+Return (for macOS) to manually trigger inline
suggestions.
### IntelliJ
In the status bar of your IDE, click
spark **Gemini Code
Assist: Active** and select **Enable AI Code Completion**.
This disables the code completion setting, and
Gemini Code Assist no longer makes inline suggestions until
you enable the setting again.
## Use Next Edit Predictions
> [!WARNING]
> **Preview**
>
> This product or feature is in preview. Products and features that are
> in preview are available "as is".
While code completion only suggests changes at your cursor in a code file, Next
Edit Predictions provide predicted code suggestions throughout the file, even in
locations away from the cursor.
You can enable Next Edit Predictions in the settings of your IDE.
To use Next Edit Predictions in your IDE, follow these steps:
### VS Code
To begin using Next Edit Predictions, enable the setting:
1. Navigate to settings **Manage**
\> **Settings**.
2. In the **User** tab of the settings window, navigate to **Extensions**
\> **Gemini Code Assist**.
3. Scroll until you find **Geminicodeassist \> Inline Suggestions: Next Edit
Predictions**.
4. Select the checkbox to enable Next Edit Predictions in VS Code.
Now that you've enabled the setting, you can start using Next Edit Predictions
in a code file by performing these steps:
1. In your code file, start writing code. Next Edit Predictions appear when
you pause or stop typing.
2. Press Tab to accept the provided Next Edit suggestion.
3. If you want to accept the next suggestion, press Tab again. A
further suggestion may appear and the process can again be repeated.
Otherwise, press Esc to dismiss, or continue typing to ignore the
suggestion.
When you press Tab to enter the suggestion, you can hold your
pointer over the suggestion to see the other suggestions, if applicable.
If there are multiple suggestions, you can click the left and right arrows
to cycle through the other suggestions.
Whenever you press Esc to dismiss the suggestion,
Gemini Code Assist stops suggesting Next Edit Predictions
for that specific code block. You continue to receive suggestions when you
move to another section of your code.
> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** Gemini Code Assist only provides Next Edit Predictions in the file that you're currently in. Gemini Code Assist doesn't provide Next Edit Predictions in other files.
### IntelliJ
To begin using Next Edit Predictions, enable the setting:
1. Navigate to **File** \> **Settings** \> **Tools**
\> **Gemini**.
2. In the **Completion** section, select the **Next Edit Predictions**
checkbox to enable the feature.
Now that you've enabled the setting, you can start using Next Edit Predictions
in a code file by performing these steps:
1. In your code file, start writing code. Next Edit Predictions appear when
you pause or stop typing.
2. Press Tab to accept the provided Next Edit suggestion.
3. If you want to accept the next suggestion, press Tab again. A
further suggestion may appear and the process can again be repeated.
Otherwise, press Esc to dismiss, or continue typing to ignore the
suggestion.
Whenever you press Esc to dismiss the suggestion,
Gemini Code Assist stops suggesting Next Edit Predictions
for that specific code block. You continue to receive suggestions when you
move to another section of your code.
> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** Gemini Code Assist only provides Next Edit Predictions in the file that you're currently in. Gemini Code Assist doesn't provide Next Edit Predictions that would impact code in other files.
## Finish changes in a file
Gemini Code Assist can generate code suggestion to complete your
file's pseudocode, #TODOs, and half-written code.
### VS Code
1. In your code file, start writing code until the `Alt+F` or `Opt+F` hint
appears.
2. To generate suggested code, press the keyboard shortcut provided
by the hint, or right-click in the file and select
**Gemini Code Assist** \> **Finish changes**.
You can dismiss the hint or cancel the code generation process by
pressing `Esc`.
3. Once Gemini Code Assist finishes generating suggested
code, you can click **Accept** , which applies the suggested code to your
file, or you can click **Decline**, which leaves your original code
unchanged.
### IntelliJ
1. Check that there are portions of your focused file that have code in need
of completion, such as pseudocode or #TODOs.
2. In the file window, right-click \> **Gemini** \>
**Finish changes** . Alternatively, you can
[use the finish changes keyboard shortcut](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/keyboard-shortcuts.md.txt#code-shortcuts).
Gemini Code Assist generates code suggestions to finish
the incomplete portions of your code.
3. For each code suggestion, click
check_small **Accept** or
undo **Reject**.
Alternatively, the option to **Accept all** or **Reject all** is
available at the top of the file.
## Get more relevant suggestions with remote repository context
You can get more contextually aware and relevant code suggestions by directing
Gemini Code Assist to focus on specific remote repositories.
This is useful when your task centers on a specific set of microservices,
libraries, or modules.
### Before you begin
Before you use a remote repository as context, you must first
[index and configure it for code customization](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/code-customization.md.txt).
### Use a remote repository as context
To direct Gemini Code Assist to use one or more repositories
as the primary context for your prompts:
1. In your IDE's chat, start your prompt with the @ symbol. A list of your available indexed remote repositories appears.
2. Select the repository (or repositories) you want to use for context from the list. You can also start typing the repository name to filter the list.
3. After selecting the repositories, write the rest of your prompt.
Gemini Code Assist then prioritizes the selected repositories
when generating a response.
### Example prompts
This section includes examples of how you can get more relevant suggestions with
remote repository context.
- Understand a repository
- `@REPOSITORY_NAME What is the overall structure of this repository?`
- `@REPOSITORY_NAME I'm a new team member. Can you give me an overview of
this repository's purpose and key modules?`
- Generate and modify code
- `@REPOSITORY_NAME Implement an authentication function similar to the one
in this repository.`
- `@REPOSITORY_NAME Refactor the following code to follow the conventions in
the selected repository.`
- `Use the library-x in @REPOSITORY_A_NAME-A and implement the function-x`
- Test
- `@UNIT_TEST_FILE_NAME Generate unit tests for module-x based on the examples
in the selected file.`
By using remote repositories as a focused source of context, you can get more
accurate and relevant suggestions from Gemini Code Assist, which
can help you code faster and more efficiently.
## Use smart actions
To help you be more productive while minimizing context switching,
Gemini Code Assist provides AI-powered smart actions directly in
your code editor. When you select your code in your code editor, you can view
and select from a list of actions relevant to your context.
To use smart actions in your code, follow these steps:
### VS Code
1. In your code file, select a block of code.
2. Next to the selected code block, click
lightbulb **Show Code
Actions**.
3. Select an action such as **Generate unit tests**.
Gemini Code Assist generates a response that's based on the
action you selected.
### IntelliJ
1. In your code file, select a line or block of code.
2. Right-click the selected code and select a smart action, like
**Generate unit tests**.
Selecting the smart action will automatically prompt
Gemini Code Assist to generate a response to the prompt in
the **Gemini Code Assist** tool window.
## Use code transformation quick fix
If there's an error in your code, Gemini Code Assist gives you
the option to apply a *quick fix* to the error with code transformation.
To apply a quick fix in your code file, follow these steps:
### VS Code
1. In your code file, hold your pointer over the squiggly error line and
select **Quick Fix** , and then select **/fix**.
2. When the quick fix is applied, a diff view appears. To accept these
changes, click **Accept**.
### IntelliJ
1. In your code file, click the red error bulb icon, which indicates an error
in your code, and select **Fix with Gemini**.
2. When the fix is applied, a diff view appears. To accept these changes,
click **Accept**.
## Exclude files from local context
If files are specified in a `.aiexclude` or `.gitignore` file,
Gemini Code Assist by default excludes them from local use in the
context for code completion, code generation, code transformation, and chat.
To learn how to exclude files from local use, see
[Exclude files from Gemini Code Assist use](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/create-aiexclude-file.md.txt).
## Disable code suggestions that match cited sources
Gemini Code Assist provides citation information when it directly
quotes at length from another source, such as existing open source code. For
more information, see
[How and when Gemini cites sources](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/discover/works.md.txt).
To prevent code that matches cited sources from being suggested to you, do the
following:
### VS Code
1. In the activity bar of your IDE, click **Manage** \> **Settings**.
2. In the **User** tab of the settings window, navigate to **Extensions**
\> **Gemini Code Assist**.
3. Scroll until you find **Geminicodeassist \> Recitation: Max Cited Length**.
4. Set the value to `0`.
Gemini Code Assist no longer suggests code to you that matches
cited sources.
### IntelliJ
1. In the status bar of your IDE, click
spark
**Gemini Code Assist: Active** and select then select
**Configure Gemini**.
2. Expand the **Advanced settings** section, and then select
**Block selections that match external cited sources**.
3. Click **OK**.
Gemini Code Assist no longer suggests code to you that matches
cited sources.
## Known issues
For a list of known issues with Gemini Code Assist in your IDE,
see [known issues](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/codeassist/code-overview.md.txt#known-issues).
## Leave feedback
To leave feedback of your experience, see
[Provide Gemini Code Assist feedback](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/support/feedback.md.txt).
## What's next
- Learn how to [write better prompts](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/discover/write-prompts.md.txt).
- Learn [how Gemini Code Assist uses your data](https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/discover/data-governance.md.txt).
- Learn about [Gemini Code Assist pricing](https://cloud.google.com/products/gemini/pricing).
- Learn more about [Google Cloud compliance](https://cloud.google.com/compliance).