The VoxyAI VSCode Extension: Your Mac's AI, Right in Your Editor

If you write code on a Mac, there is a good chance you spend most of your day in Visual Studio Code. Until now, using VoxyAI there meant the same path as any other app: speak or type a command, and the result lands where your cursor is. That works, but an editor deserves better. Today it gets better. The VoxyAI extension for VSCode is here, it is free, and it brings the AI you already configured on your Mac directly into your editor.

Here is the idea in one sentence: your Mac app already knows your AI providers, your API keys, your local models, and your custom commands, so your editor should not need its own copies of any of that. The extension simply connects to the VoxyAI app running on your Mac and puts all of it at your fingertips while you code.

No New Keys, No New Subscription

Most AI coding assistants are another account, another monthly bill, and another place your code gets sent. The VoxyAI extension is none of those things. It uses whichever AI provider you picked in the Mac app. If you pointed VoxyAI at your own OpenAI or Claude key, the extension uses that. If you run fully local with Ollama or Apple Intelligence, the extension is a completely offline coding assistant, your code never leaves your Mac.

Switching providers in the Mac app updates the extension instantly. The status bar and the chat header always show which provider and model are active, so you are never guessing where your code is going.

Every Edit Is a Diff You Approve

The thing we cared most about: the extension never silently rewrites your files. Select some code and ask VoxyAI to fix it, improve it, or document it, and the proposed change appears as a side-by-side diff. You see exactly what would change before it changes. Accept it and it applies as a single edit, so one undo reverses the whole thing. Reject it and your file is untouched.

This applies everywhere. Code blocks in chat, fixes for compiler errors, results from your custom commands, even voice commands you speak while VSCode is focused, they all arrive as reviewable diffs, not blind pastes.

What You Can Do With It

• Explain, fix, and improve. Select code and hit a shortcut. Explanations open in a side panel; fixes and improvements come back as diffs. With nothing selected, VoxyAI focuses on the function your cursor is in.
• Chat that knows your code. A sidebar chat that can see your selection or your whole file, you choose per message. Conversations persist per project, and code from answers can be copied, inserted, or applied as a diff.
• Fix errors from the lightbulb. When VSCode underlines a problem, the exact error message and surrounding code go to the AI, and the fix comes back as a diff. Fix one problem or the whole file at once.
• Git tools. Generate a commit message from your staged changes with one click, summarize a diff before you commit, or select a few lines and ask who changed them and why.
• Multi-file edits. Describe a refactor in plain language, like renaming a function everywhere or generating tests for a module, and review the plan file by file before anything applies.
• Your custom commands, everywhere. Commands you built in the Mac app appear in VSCode automatically. Build a prompt once, use it in every editor session.

Setup Is Genuinely Zero

Install the extension from the marketplace, and you are done. There is no pairing code, no token to paste, no settings screen to fill out. The extension finds the VoxyAI app on your Mac and connects on its own. If the app is not running, the status bar offers to launch it for you.

The connection is local and encrypted, the extension talks only to the VoxyAI app on your own machine and never to any other server. Every request is cryptographically signed, and the extension verifies it is talking to your VoxyAI app on every single request. If the app refreshes its security certificate after an update, the extension notices and reconnects without you doing anything.

One Brain, Many Surfaces

We think of the Mac app as the brain: it holds your providers, your keys, your policies, your custom commands, and your preferences. The extension is a new surface for that brain, the same way the iPhone and iPad apps are. Configure things once, and every place you work gets smarter together.

And because the brain stays on your Mac, the privacy story stays simple. The extension adds no new accounts, no new servers, and no new places your code can end up. Your keys, your models, your rules, now in your editor too.

Get the Extension

The VoxyAI extension is free on the VSCode Marketplace. It requires the VoxyAI app for Mac running on the same computer. If you are new to VoxyAI, download the Mac app and start your free trial, then install the extension and your editor is instantly wired up. For the full feature list, shortcuts, and troubleshooting tips, see the VSCode extension documentation.