Sunsetting Sourcegraph Cody and building the future of code intelligence

Sourcegraph will retire its AI coding assistant Cody on January 31, 2027, concluding a product launched in early 2023 that combined AI chat and code completion with Sourcegraph’s code-search infrastructure to help developers understand complex codebases. The company says it chose not to develop Cody into an autonomous coding agent and is instead focusing on retrieval infrastructure that supports developers and a range of third-party or internally built agents, including tools such as Amp, Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. Its strategy centers on a deterministic code graph, Code Search, Deep Search, Code Finder, MCP and CLI integrations, and Agentic Batch Changes, intended to improve code discovery, AI-generated code accuracy, and large-scale changes such as migrations, dependency upgrades, and security fixes. Sourcegraph acknowledges that Cody customers may need time to replace existing IDE and API workflows and says it will work with affected teams, noting that Deep Search and MCP integrations can support many, but not all, current use cases.

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