ECA IntelliJ

Free OpenSource Intellij plugin with support for AI pair programming via ECA

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ECA (Editor Code Assistant) IntelliJ is an AI-powered pair-programming client for IntelliJ. It connects to an external eca server process to provide interactive chat, code suggestions, context management and more.

For more details about ECA, features and configuration, check ECA server.

This extension will auto download eca and manage the process.

Install

Just install the ECA plugin in Jetbrains marketplace.

Settings

Go to Preferences > Tools > ECA.

Troubleshooting

Check troubleshooting docs section.

Development

Webview

To start the eca-webview:

bb dev-webview

This will start Vite dev server on http://localhost:5173, so any changes will be updated on the IntelliJ live.

Plugin

bb install-plugin <pathToYourIntellij> to install the plugin locally.

or

bb build-plugin to manually install via intellij the .zip.