What is this?
Tabby is a self-hosted AI coding assistant that gives you an open-source, on-premises alternative to GitHub Copilot, with code completion and chat features.
Tabby is a self-hosted AI coding assistant that gives you an open-source, on-premises alternative to GitHub Copilot, with code completion and chat features.Is this a code-completion plugin, or a full server I run myself?Tabby is a full server component you host yourself, paired with editor extensions for VSCode, Vim, and IntelliJ; it exposes an OpenAPI interface so any IDE, including cloud IDEs, can integrate with it.
Tabby is a full server component you host yourself, paired with editor extensions for VSCode, Vim, and IntelliJ; it exposes an OpenAPI interface so any IDE, including cloud IDEs, can integrate with it.How do I get a Tabby server running?The fastest way is a single Docker command to start the server; for building from source you set up the Rust toolchain, install the required dependencies and tools, then run 'cargo build'.
The fastest way is a single Docker command to start the server; for building from source you set up the Rust toolchain, install the required dependencies and tools, then run 'cargo build'.Do I need a beefy GPU to run it?No — Tabby is designed to run inference on consumer-grade GPUs, and it even added Metal support for Apple M1/M2 chips.
No — Tabby is designed to run inference on consumer-grade GPUs, and it even added Metal support for Apple M1/M2 chips.Which editors can I actually use it with?Tabby ships IDE/editor extensions for VSCode, Vim, and IntelliJ, and is also listed on the JetBrains Marketplace, covering the most common coding environments.
Tabby ships IDE/editor extensions for VSCode, Vim, and IntelliJ, and is also listed on the JetBrains Marketplace, covering the most common coding environments.Does my code or data ever leave my network?No — since Tabby is self-contained and doesn't require an external database or cloud service, everything can run entirely inside your own infrastructure.
No — since Tabby is self-contained and doesn't require an external database or cloud service, everything can run entirely inside your own infrastructure.What is the Answer Engine?Answer Engine is Tabby's internal knowledge engine that connects to a dev team's internal data (code, docs, issues) to give reliable answers, and can turn those answers into persistent, shareable Pages.
Answer Engine is Tabby's internal knowledge engine that connects to a dev team's internal data (code, docs, issues) to give reliable answers, and can turn those answers into persistent, shareable Pages.Does Tabby use my repository's context for better completions?Yes, since v0.3 Tabby uses RAG-based code completion, pulling in repo-level context, local LSP declarations, and recently modified code to make suggestions more relevant.
Yes, since v0.3 Tabby uses RAG-based code completion, pulling in repo-level context, local LSP declarations, and recently modified code to make suggestions more relevant.Which AI models can Tabby run?Tabby maintains a model registry including CodeLlama, CodeGemma, CodeQwen, and Mistral's Codestral, and lets you switch between backend chat models.
Tabby maintains a model registry including CodeLlama, CodeGemma, CodeQwen, and Mistral's Codestral, and lets you switch between backend chat models.Why pick Tabby over just using GitHub Copilot?Tabby is fully open-source and self-hosted, so your code stays on your own infrastructure instead of a third-party cloud, while still giving you Copilot-like completions and chat.
Tabby is fully open-source and self-hosted, so your code stays on your own infrastructure instead of a third-party cloud, while still giving you Copilot-like completions and chat.What are similar projects?gpt-pilot, magnitude, rocketride-server, llama-gpt, unsloth, ds4, TensorFold, tensorzero
gpt-pilot, magnitude, rocketride-server, llama-gpt, unsloth, ds4, TensorFold, tensorzeroWhich topics is it in?code-completion, codegen, developer-experience, intellij, genai, coding-assistant, llms, vscode-extension, vim, github-copilot, ide, local-llm
code-completion, codegen, developer-experience, intellij, genai, coding-assistant, llms, vscode-extension, vim, github-copilot, ide, local-llm