my-engineer 0.1.11

My Engineer is an AI coding assistant that is good at creating or editing multiple files at a time.

My Engineer

My Engineer is an AI coding assistant that excels at editing multiple files simultaneously.

GitHub Codespaces

My Engineer works well in GitHub Codespaces. It's easy to try it out: https://github.com/codespaces

Installation (from pip)

Locally

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install my-engineer

Globally

brew install pipx
pipx ensurepath
pipx install my-engineer

Globally (windows)

python3 -m pip install my-engineer
python3 -m my_engineer

Installation (from sources)

pip install -r my_engineer/requirements.txt
python3 -m my_engineer

Execution

# must run at the root of your application
my-engineer

How to Use

• My Engineer will open a blank VS Code file. Enter your instructions (e.g., "Write a complete Next.js application" or "Add comments to all files in my codebase"). Processing will start when you close the file.

Things to Know

• My Engineer uses Claude 3.5 Sonnet to generate code change instructions, but uses Claude 3 Haiku for everything else.
• Anthropic API requests are cached, so continuing a conversation costs only 10% of starting a new one.
• You have 5 minutes to continue a conversation before the Anthropic cache expires.
• A log of the interaction with the LLM is created in the runs/ folder.
• The file_summaries.yaml file is only updated with new files. If you make significant changes to many files, delete it so it gets re-created.
• After you've completed a conversation, commit all your changes. my-engineer will offer to create a new branch for the next batch of changes.
• Before you commit the changes from my-engineer, you can view all of them with COMMAND-SHIFT-P, then "Git: View Changes".
• For small application, it's better to always include all files in the context.
• Add your code files, types definition and db structures to always_include_patterns.txt so that they are always included in the context.

Recommended Additions to .gitignore

.venv
runs/
file_summaries.yaml