LM Local
A Visual Studio 2022/2026 extension that adds a local or cloud AI chat assistant with agentic capabilities, able to edit code, run builds and tests, and apply changes inside the IDE with tracked, reversible edits.
LM Local is a Visual Studio extension that adds an AI chat assistant with agentic capabilities, working with local engines such as LM Studio, Ollama, Jan and Llama.cpp, as well as cloud providers including Groq, OpenRouter, Google AI Studio and DeepSeek through OpenAI-compatible APIs. Within a single conversational flow it can edit code, run builds and tests, and apply changes to the project.
By default its write and modify tools are disabled, so it can read files but not change anything until writing tools are explicitly turned on in settings; once enabled, every change is tracked in a Changes panel with one-click rollback. Its features include in-IDE chat with streaming responses, code autocompletion as the user types, image attachments for multimodal chat, expandable reasoning traces, custom system presets, chat history with session restore, and Model Context Protocol support for adding external tools over stdio or HTTP.
It requires Visual Studio 2022 or 2026, and its source is open for inspection and contribution on GitHub.