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Internal Tools

CodeGPT supports a variety of tools to help you write code more efficiently. Here are some of the tools you can use:

Pre-defined Profiles

CodeGPT offers three pre-configured profiles to match different use cases:

Chat Mode

  • Description: Only questions and answers, without tools
  • Use Case: Simple conversations and basic code assistance
  • Tools Enabled: None

Search Mode

  • Description: Only reading tools enabled
  • Use Case: Code exploration and documentation lookup
  • Tools Enabled: File reading, search functions, web search

Agent Mode

  • Description: All tools enabled
  • Use Case: Full development assistance with complete tool access
  • Tools Enabled: All available tools (file operations, code analysis, search, terminal, web search)

Configuration

Before using tools, you need to configure them in the settings menu:

  1. Go to the Settings menu in CodeGPT
  2. Navigate to the Tools section
  3. Enable the tools you want to use
  4. Choose between Enabled and Auto-Approve modes:
    • Enabled: You control when tools are executed
    • Auto-Approve: Tools are executed automatically based on context

Available Internal Tools

CodeGPT includes several built-in tools to enhance your development experience:

  • code_semantic_search: Search codebase for similar code patterns and functions using semantic analysis
  • get_file_content: Retrieve content from a specific file in the codebase
  • get_folder_tree_structure: Display project folder hierarchy and file structure
  • create_file_or_folder: Create new files or directories in the codebase
  • delete_file: Remove files from the codebase with confirmation
  • execute_terminal_command: Run terminal commands for builds, tests, and system operations
  • edit_file: Modify existing file content with precise changes
  • todo_list: Manage project tasks, bugs, and feature requests
Important Note About Tool Compatibility

Tools only work with specific models that support function calling capabilities. If you select a model from the "Providers and Models without Tools" section, the tool functionality will not be available. Make sure to choose a model from the "Providers and Models with Tools" section to access the full range of CodeGPT's tool features.

Providers and Models with Tools

This table shows providers that offer development tools along with their compatible models.

ProviderModels
OpenAIgpt-4.1, gpt-4.1-2025-04-14, gpt-4.1-mini-2025-04-14, gpt-4.1-nano-2025-04-14, gpt-4.5-preview, o4-mini, o3, o3-mini, o3-mini-high, o1-preview, o1-preview-2024-09-12, o1-mini, o1-mini-2024-09-12, gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4o-2024-11-20, gpt-4o-2024-05-13
Anthropicclaude-sonnet-4-20250514, claude-opus-4-20250514, claude-3-7-sonnet-latest, claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219, claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022, claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620, claude-3-5-haiku-latest, claude-3-5-haiku-20241022, claude-3-opus-latest, claude-3-opus-20240229, claude-3-sonnet-20240229, claude-3-haiku-20240307
Claude Codeclaude-sonnet-4-20250514, claude-opus-4-20250514, claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219, claude-3-5-haiku-20241022, claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022, claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620, claude-3-haiku-20240307, claude-3-sonnet-20240229, claude-3-opus-20240229
Grokgrok-4, grok-4-0709, grok-3, grok-3-fast, grok-3-mini, grok-3-mini-fast, grok-3-1702, grok-2-1212
Coherecommand-a-03-2025, command-r7b-12-2024, command-r-plus-04-2024, command-r-plus, command-r-08-2024, command-r-03-2024, command-r, command, command-nightly, command-light, command-light-nightly, c4ai-aya-expanse-32b, c4ai-aya-expanse-8b
Google AI Studiogemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06, gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17, gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25, gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25, gemini-2.0-flash, gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-1219, gemini-2.0-flash-exp, gemma-3-27b-it, gemma-3-12b-it, gemma-3-4b-it, gemma-3-1b-it
Gemini CLIgemini-2.5-pro, gemini-2.5-flash, gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06, gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05, gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17, gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20, gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17, gemini-2.0-flash, gemini-2.0-flash-lite, gemini-1.5-flash-8b
Mistralmagistral-medium-2506, magistral-small-2506, devstral-small-latest, devstral-small-2505, mistral-large-latest, mistral-medium-latest, mistral-small-latest, pixtral-large-latest, codestral-latest, mistral-saba-latest, ministral-8b-latest, ministral-3b-latest, mistral-small, mistral-tiny, open-mistral-nemo
Perplexitysonar-deep-research, sonar-reasoning-pro, sonar-reasoning, sonar-pro, r1-1776
Groqmeta-llama/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct, meta-llama/llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct, qwen-qwq-32b, qwen-2.5-coder-32b, qwen-2.5-32b, gemma2-9b-it, deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b, deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b, llama-3.3-70b-versatile, llama-3.1-8b-instant
Cerebrasllama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct, llama-3.3-70b, llama3.1-8b, deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b

Providers and Models without Tools

This table shows providers that do not specify the use of development tools along with their available models.

ProviderModels
CodeGPT Plus Betagpt-3.5-turbo, GPT-4, gpt-4o
Nvidiadeepseek-ai/deepseek-r1, meta/llama-3.1-405b-instruct, meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct, meta/llama3-70b-instruct, meta/llama3-8b-instruct, nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-70b-instruct, nvidia/nemotron-4-340b-instruct, nvidia/usdcode-llama3-70b-instruct, ibm/granite-34b-code-instruct, microsoft/phi-3-mini-128k-instruct, nv-mistralai/mistral-nemo-12b-instruct, mistralai/codestral-22b-instruct-v0.1, mistralai/mixtral-8x22b-v0.1, mistralai/mistral-large, mistralai/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2, google/gemma-2-2b-it, google/gemma-2-9b-it, google/gemma-2-27b-it, google/gemma-7b, google/gemma-2b, google/codegemma-7b, google/recurrentgemma-2b, meta/codellama-70b, meta/llama2-70b
AzureAzure
Github ModelsDeepSeek-R1, gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, Mistral-large, Mistral-large-2407, Mistral-Nemo, Mistral-small, AI21-Jamba-Instruct, Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct, Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct, Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct, Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct, Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, Cohere-command-r, Cohere-command-r-plus, Phi-3-medium-128k-instruct, Phi-3-medium-4k-instruct, Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct, Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct, Phi-3-small-128k-instruct, Phi-3-small-8k-instruct, Phi-3.5-mini-instruct
DeepSeekdeepseek-reasoner, deepseek-chat, deepseek-coder
Ollamallama4:scout, llama4:maverick, llama3.3:70b, llama3.2:3b, llama3.2:1b, llama3.1:405b and many others.
Fireworks AIllama-v3p1-405b-instruct, llama-v3p1-70b-instruct, llama-v3p1-8b-instruct, llama-v3-70b-instruct, llama-v2-7b-chat, llama-v2-70b-chat, yi-large, qwen2-72b-instruct, mixtral-8x22b-instruct, mixtral-8x7b, gemma-7b-it, dbrx-instruct, zephyr-7b-beta
Huggingfacemeta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct, meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct, meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct, mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1, microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct, Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct, Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct
Bedrockclaude-opus-4-20250514-v1:0, claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0, claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-v1:0, claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022-v2:0, claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620-v1:0, claude-3.7-sonnet, claude-3.5-sonnet, claude-3-sonnet, claude-v2, claude-v2.1, claude-v1, claude-instant
LM StudioNot required
Dockerai/qwen3, ai/deepseek-r1-distill-llama, ai/deepcoder-preview, ai/phi4, ai/qwq, ai/qwen2.5, ai/gemma3, ai/gemma3-qa, ai/smollm2, ai/llama3.1, ai/llama3.2, ai/llama3.3, ai/mxbai-embed-large, ai/mistral-nemo, ai/mistral
OpenRouteropenrouter/cypher-alpha:free, deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324:free, google/gemini-2.0-flash-exp:free, deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528:free, qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b:free, qwen/qwq-32b:free
CustomNo specified models
CodeGPT Enterprisegpt-3.5-turbo, GPT-4