Pieces for JetBrains Plugin
The Pieces for JetBrains Plugin enhances your development experience by seamlessly integrating the best features from the Pieces suite directly into JetBrains IDEs, making your favorite tools readily accessible within your workspace.
It provides developers with powerful tools for managing code snippets, debugging, and refactoring within their familiar development environment.
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Pieces Copilot: Users can start generative AI conversations and add files and folders as context to get the solutions they need—including out-of-IDE context with the optional Long-Term Memory Engine (LTM-2).
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Pieces Drive: Effortlessly save, locate, and share frequently used code snippets, making it easier to organize your work, quickly access important pieces of code, and collaborate effectively with others.
- AI Quick Actions: Fully integrated and Pieces-powered AI Quick Actions tools are built right into your code to access Pieces Copilot explanation and documentation features even more easily.
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Pieces Quick Guides help you quickly understand and effectively utilize powerful features like the Long-Term (LTM-2) Memory Engine and Pieces Copilot. Click here to get started.
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The Pieces for JetBrains Plugin verifies against the JetBrains IntelliJ Ultimate IDE, but works across the entire JetBrains suite of IDEs.
The minimum version required for the Pieces for JetBrains Plugin to work in your JetBrains IDE is 2023.1.
If you’re not quite sure what version your JetBrains IDE is, you can click here to find out how to check it.
This plugin is currently available for use in any JetBrains IDE, such as:
The Pieces for JetBrains plugin provides developers with two pillars of functionality:
AI Assistance with Pieces Copilot
Pieces Copilot offers AI-assisted features like starting contextualized generative AI conversations, adding code comments, and troubleshooting code.
Material Management with Pieces Drive
Pieces Drive enables you to save, edit, search, and share useful code snippets to boost your workflow productivity and streamline collaboration with others.
These features let developers store their favorite code in a personal, easy-to-access library. They can quickly review past work, find related authors and links with the extra details saved with each piece, and more.
Using Pieces Copilot
You can perform several powerful actions with the Pieces Copilot inside of your JetBrains IDE, like starting a conversation directly inside the editor with your LLM of choice about a specific code snippet, fragment, folder, or terminal output.
This is the backbone of the Pieces Copilot experience—the Ask Copilot feature.
Pieces for Developers has recently rolled out its new AI Quick Actions feature—similar to VS Code’s Codelens—which allows for select quick actions powered by Pieces Copilot, namely Pieces: Explain and Pieces: Comment.
The Quick Action tools—Pieces: Explain and Pieces: Comment—can be found above the function nearest to your cursor.
Using either of these AI Quick Actions triggers the Pieces Copilot conversation window, where you can find the output from the LLM of your choice.
These AI Quick Action tools live above certain pieces of code, like functions, so that you always have easy access to them.
Managing Code Snippets
When you save code to your personal repository, Pieces automatically enriches the snippet with AI-generated tags, titles, related authors and links, and a description.
Save code snippets by right-clicking a selection of code and choosing the Save Current Selection to Pieces option from the pop-up window.
Alternatively, right-click and hover over the Pieces item to access several other snippet-related functions.
Other material management actions available in this menu include:
Action | Purpose |
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| Right-click a selected block of code or your entire active file and save it to your Pieces Drive with AI-enriched metadata, ensuring easy access to frequently used snippets. |
| Save an entire file to Pieces Drive for future reference. |
| Ask Pieces Copilot to generate suggestions or explain the selection with a query. |
| Adjust and refine selected code using AI suggestions. |
| Auto-generate comments for the selected code snippet using AI. |
| Receive an explanation for the selected code using your chosen LLM through Pieces Copilot. |
| Generate a shareable link for your snippet, allowing collaboration even with those who don’t have a Pieces account. |
| Search for previously saved snippets in Pieces. |
| Quickly find and retrieve relevant snippets saved in Pieces. |
Referencing & Reusing
The Pieces for JetBrains Plugin provides robust search tools to help you quickly find and access your saved snippets.
You can easily find saved snippets in your JetBrains IDE by double-tapping the shift key and then selecting the Pieces window.
Simply enter a query, and any snippet you’ve saved that matches the query will be returned in the drop-down list.
Once you’ve located the snippet you want, pressing enter or clicking the snippet title will open it inside your JetBrains IDE.
Download the Plugin
Follow the installation instructions to get started with the Pieces for JetBrains Plugin.