Gemini Code Assist chat features overview

This document outlines the chat features that Gemini Code Assist supports.

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You can perform the following chat actions with Gemini Code Assist in any of the supported IDEs :

• Use Gemini Code Assist to explain your code
• Create multiple chats
• Edit a prior prompt
• Delete prompt and response pairs
• Configure code preview pane
• Prompt Gemini Code Assist with selected code using chat
• Add selected code snippets to context
• Add terminal output to the chat context
• Specify files and folders in your workspace context
• Revert to a checkpoint in chat
• View code diffs
• Create custom commands
• Create rules
• Exclude files from your context with an .aiexclude or .gitignore file
• Use Gemini Code Assist agentic chat as a pair programmer
• Configure local codebase awareness

What's next

• Set up Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise , if you haven't already.

• To begin using Gemini Code Assist chat features in your IDE, see Chat with Gemini Code Assist .