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Guardrails for AI Generated Code

Quality check AI-generated code from Copilot, Windsurf, Cursor AI and other AI-coding assistants with our IDE extension. Catch code smells in real time and only ship clean, maintainable code.

Empowering the world’s top engineering teams

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How it works

From AI-generated code to production — CodeScene's quality gates ensure only healthy, maintainable code enters your codebase.

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The challenges with just accepting AI generated code

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Generated code that looked correct, but wasn’t

AI-generated code may contain bugs and errors, especially when the codebase is complex or the prompt is unclear.

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Adding technical debt

Overly complex or poorly written code can contribute to technical debt, making it harder to maintain and evolve the software

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Limited context awareness

AI can miss the broader project context or subtle business logic, which may result in inaccurate or inappropriate code changes.

Review AI-produced code with CodeScene's IDE Extension

Cursor, Copilot and Windsurf generate code, we make sure it's maintainable and healthy.

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Download the IDE extension

Get started by installing CodeScene’s IDE extension. Once activated, it monitors the code quality of any modified file in real-time.

Validate AI code in real-time

The CodeHealth™ Monitor detects 25+ code smells like complex methods and God functions. If AI- or handwritten code introduces issues, the monitor flags them instantly, before the code is merged.

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Fix code smells with auto-refactoring

When a code smell is introduced, our AI-powered refactoring add-on is designed to safely refactor code health issues, without any major rewrites required. Correct the AI-generated code and push to production.

"Being able to check the code health score while writing code in the IDE is extremely helpful. This shift-left approach prevents file-level issues from being committed and drastically cuts review and remediation time. It's a must-have for every team's development lifecycle."

Enforce AI code quality in rest of your workflow

Enable quality gates for your PRs

CodeScene’s Pull/Merge Request integration offers automated Code Health reviews, ensuring all new and modified code meets your team's quality standards. Seamless integration with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, and on-prem Gerrit.

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Monitor and prevent AI-generated tech debt

Without proper safeguards, AI coding assistants can generate technical debt faster than ever. In fact, Forrester research predicts rapid increase due to AI's growth.

Why trust Code Health Metric?

Trust the research. CodeScene’s tools are built on the proven Code Health Metric, delivering 2x faster development, 15x fewer bugs, and up to 10x better delivery accuracy with healthy code.

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IDEs supported

CodeScene’s IDE extension integrates with popular IDEs used by development teams today, with more options on the way.

IntelliJ IDEA
RubyMine
GoLand
WebStorm
CLion
RustRover
PhpStorm
PyCharm
Rider
Android Studio Jellyfish
VS Code with forks and more
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Visual Studio Code
Theia IDE
Windsurf
VSCodium
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Real results from real customers

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Martin Bungaard

Chapter leader

Are we making a distributed monolith or are we making decoupled microservices? It can be hard to see if just looking at the repositories. I find it clear to get information from CodeScene regarding this by using the change coupling.
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Jake Maizel

Vice President, Infrastructure and Core Engineering

Early adoption lead to many insights. CodeScene provides insights into our development life cycle that no other tool we use can provide.
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Christian Saleki

CTO

No tools on the market could help us tackle technical debt in a data driven way - until we came across CodeScene.

Explaining technical debt is very frustrating, and not having metrics or data to refer to is even worse. CodeScene solves this in a very elegant way by visualizing the problems, costs and risks but also offering solutions - in so many ways, not just technical debt.
SmartCraft
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Adam Chapman

Developer

We're working with a project that's been around for a solid 15 years. Back in its early days, tight deadlines led to a few shortcuts in the code. Thanks to CodeScene, we can now sift through that technical debt, pinpointing exactly where to channel our efforts for the most impactful improvements.
Apex Networks
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Xavier Greffe

Scrum Master

CodeScene makes it very easy to surface technical debt and assists in continuously monitoring your Code Health. It even gives you clear instructions on fixing Code Health declines.
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Ben Holm

Senior Director of Engineering

Everyone with big legacy codebases has developers telling them that “we need to rewrite all of these things”. But you can’t focus on everything at once. How do you make the right decisions around where to invest your resources? CodeScene helps prioritize development and refactoring efforts to areas that will have the biggest impact and return on investment.
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Shane C.

CTO

CodeScene as a company has been highly responsive to my input over the whole course of my engagement with them. My suggestions based on real-world usage contributed to improvement in the products.
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Anne Saunders

Senior Operations Process Engineer

As a non-developer working in a software development company, one of my jobs is to protect developers' time when possible. CodeScene lets me interrogate code and discover entry points for the developers to perform more in-depth code reviews.

I also like that I can show progress even our least technical stakeholders can understand with the streamlined visuals CodeScene creates.
Clevyr
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Ryan Bulloch

Engineering Manager

From an engineering perspective, we can help identify team productivity bottlenecks and areas most expensive to maintain, support onboarding with knowledge maps of a system or domain, assist with off boarding by identifying the areas in need of knowledge transfer, help to maintain standards and more.
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Frequently asked questions

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How do I activate AI Guardrails within my IDE?

Download CodeScene’s IDE extension from the JetBrains or VS Code marketplace, connect to your repository. The extension monitors the code quality of any modified file in real-time.

Your guardrails are now active. If AI-generated code introduces a code smell, the Code Health monitor kicks in with a warning and a fix recommendation.

You can ask your AI assistant to correct the issue, fix it yourself, or if you’ve enabled our AI refactoring add-on ACE, you can automatically refactor the code before merging by accepting the refactoring suggestion.

How do I use the IDE extension together with Github Copilot, Cursor AI and other AI-coding assistants?

Yes, absolutely. CodeScene's IDE extension works side by side with your favorite AI-coding assistant. CodeScene's IDE extension works on top of tools like Github Copilot or Cursor AI. Any code smells introduced by AI-generated code will be detected immediately. 

Is my code safe?

We follow strict data protection regulations and are ISO/IEC 27001 certified, the international standard for information security. Read more

Does CodeScene ACE (AI-powered refactoring add-on) store any data?

Your code is your company's intellectual property, and CodeScene ACE (our AI-refactoring add-on) ensures it is never used as AI training data or stored. Read more here

Is the IDE extension free?

Download freemium and upgrade as you go for certain functionalities.

How many code quality issues can the extension detect?

The extension can detect more than 25+ different code smells. Read more about our Code Health™ Metric

Why should I trust your Code Health measurements?

Trust the research. Every tool at CodeScene is built on the research-grounded Code Health Metric. Start by reading Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality

Why should I trust the refactoring suggestions made by CodeScene ACE?

CodeScene ACE is also based on research. All refactoring suggestions are fact-validated and semantically improve the code without breaking it. Read Refactoring vs. Refuctoring: Advancing the state of AI-automated code improvements

What languages does the IDE extension support?

CodeScene’s IDE extension supports 30+ major programming languages — see the full list. AI-powered refactoring is currently available for Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, JavaScript React, and TypeScript React.

Ready to safeguard AI generated code?

Prevent AI-generated technical debt and other code quality issues with local quality gates in your IDE.