Idep

Integrated Development Environment, Powered
idep (Balinese) — Thought. Mind. Consciousness.

⚠️ Pre-alpha — no release binary yet.
The AI backend layer compiles and is tested. The editor UI does not exist yet.
Follow along or contribute — see TODO.md for what's next.

A lightweight, Rust-native AI-powered IDE.
Built for developers who want speed, local-first AI, and full control — not another cloud platform that thinks for you.

Think in code. Own your tools.

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Why Idep?

	Windsurf / Cursor	Zed	Google Antigravity	Idep
Runtime	Electron (VS Code fork)	Native (GPUI)	Electron (VS Code fork)	Native (Rust)
License	Proprietary	GPL-3 / AGPL-3	Proprietary	Apache 2.0
AI paradigm	Inline assist	Inline assist	Agent orchestration	Precise completion + RAG
AI backends	BYOK (cloud-locked models)	Multi-provider	Gemini-first + Claude/GPT	Any — no middleman
Codebase RAG	Local index, cloud inference	❌	❌	✅ fully in-process
Cloud dependency	Moderate	Low	Hard (Google account)	None
RAM floor	4–8GB	~4GB	16GB recommended	~2GB target
WSL2 / Linux	Good	Good	Okay	First-class
Self-hostable	Enterprise only	Partial	❌	✅ fully
Open source	❌	GPL-3 / AGPL-3	❌	Apache 2.0

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Positioning

The IDE market is splitting in two directions:

Upward — tools like Google Antigravity are becoming agent orchestration platforms. You delegate features to autonomous agents. The IDE becomes Mission Control. Powerful for high-level product work. Requires cloud. Requires trust. Requires Google.

Downward — Idep goes the other way. Native runtime, local inference, in-process RAG. You remain the thinker. The tool disappears. Your codebase never leaves your machine.

Idep is for developers who want thought-level control, not agent-level delegation. Your codebase index runs in-process — not just locally, but never touching a network path even for embedding. That's a sharper claim than any other tool in this table.

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Architecture

idep/
├── idep-core       — editor engine (buffer, workspace, LSP orchestration)
├── idep-ai         — AI layer (completions, chat, codebase indexer)
│   ├── backends/   — Anthropic · HuggingFace · Ollama · OpenAI-compat
│   ├── completion/ — FIM-aware inline completions
│   ├── chat/       — multi-turn conversation, context-aware
│   └── indexer/    — codebase RAG (tree-sitter + embeddings)
├── idep-lsp        — LSP client
├── idep-plugin     — WASM plugin SDK
└── idep-index      — vector index (fastembed-rs + usearch)

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Getting Started

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/idep-editor/idep
cd idep

# Build
cargo build

# Configure — copy and edit
mkdir -p ~/.config/idep
cp config.example.toml ~/.config/idep/config.toml

Config reference (~/.config/idep/config.toml)

Switch AI backends by changing a single line. No restart required.

Ollama (local, no API key)

[ai]
backend  = "ollama"
model    = "codellama:13b"
endpoint = "http://localhost:11434"

Anthropic

[ai]
backend = "anthropic"
model   = "claude-haiku-4-5-20251001"

[ai.auth]
api_key = "sk-ant-..."

HuggingFace

[ai]
backend = "huggingface"
model   = "bigcode/starcoder2-15b"

[ai.auth]
api_key = "hf_..."

Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (GPT-4o, Groq, Together, LM Studio…)

[ai]
backend  = "openai"
model    = "gpt-4o-mini"
endpoint = "https://api.groq.com/openai/v1"

[ai.auth]
api_key = "gsk_..."

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Examples

Ollama Smoketest

Quick validation that the Ollama backend and FIM completion pipeline work end-to-end.

# Start Ollama (if not already running)
ollama serve

# In another terminal, run the smoketest
bash example/ollama-smoketest.md

This validates:

• ✅ Ollama connectivity and model availability
• ✅ FIM token format (DeepSeek, StarCoder, CodeLlama)
• ✅ Stop-sequence handling (prevents generation past function boundary)
• ✅ Streaming token collection
• ✅ Deterministic completion (temperature: 0)

See example/ollama-smoketest.md for detailed steps and troubleshooting.

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Status

Component	Status
idep-ai backends	✅ Complete (v0.0.1)
idep-ai completion	✅ Complete (v0.0.2)
idep-ai chat	✅ Complete (v0.0.2)
idep-core buffer	✅ Complete (v0.0.2)
idep-core workspace	✅ Complete (v0.0.2)
idep-lsp bridge	✅ Complete (v0.0.2)

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Contributing

Idep is in early development. Issues and PRs welcome.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Join the community on Discord: https://discord.gg/PAKTq7YsMK

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Sustainability

Idep is Apache 2.0, contributor-funded, and will never gate editor features behind a subscription. See SUSTAINABILITY.md for how the project funds contributors and what it will never do to get there.

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License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE

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