Code documentation generation with LLMs

Focus on writing your code, let LLMs write the documentation for you.
With just a few keystrokes in your terminal by using OpenAI or 100% local LLMs without any data leaks.

Built with langchain, treesitter, lama.cpp and ollama

✨ Features

• 📝  Generate documentation comment blocks for all methods in a file
  • e.g. Javadoc, JSDoc, Docstring, Rustdoc etc.
• ✍️   Generate inline documentation comments in method bodies
• 🌳  Treesitter integration
• 💻  Local LLM support
• 🌐  Azure OpenAI support

Note

Documentation will only be added to files without unstaged changes, so nothing is overwritten.

🚀 Usage

Create documentations for any method in a file specified by <RELATIVE_FILE_PATH> with GPT-3.5-Turbo model:

aicomment <RELATIVE_FILE_PATH>

Create also documentation comments in the method body:

aicomment <RELATIVE_FILE_PATH> --inline

Guided mode, confirm documentation generation for each method:

aicomment <RELATIVE_FILE_PATH> --guided

Use GPT-4 model:

aicomment <RELATIVE_FILE_PATH> --gpt4

Use GPT-3.5-Turbo-16k model:

aicomment <RELATIVE_FILE_PATH> --gpt3_5-16k

Use Azure OpenAI:

aicomment <RELATIVE_FILE_PATH> --azure-deployment <DEPLOYMENT_NAME>

Use local Llama.cpp:

aicomment <RELATIVE_FILE_PATH> --local_model <MODEL_PATH>

Use local Ollama:

aicomment <RELATIVE_FILE_PATH> --ollama-model <OLLAMA_MODEL>

Note

How to download models from huggingface for local usage see Local LLM usage

Note

If very extensive and descriptive documentations are needed, consider using GPT-4/GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k or a similar local model.

Important

The results by using a local LLM will highly be affected by your selected model. To get similar results compared to GPT-3.5/4 you need to select very large models which require a powerful hardware.

📚 Supported Languages

• Python
• Typescript
• Javascript
• Java
• Rust
• Kotlin
• Go
• C++
• C
• C#
• Haskell

📋 Requirements

• Python >= 3.9

📦 Installation

Install in an isolated environment with pipx:

pipx install doc-comments-ai

If you are facing issues using pipx uou can also install directly from source through PyPI with

pip install doc-comments-ai

However, it is recommended to use pipx instead to benefit from isolated environments for the dependencies.
For further help visit the Troubleshooting section.

1. OpenAI usage

Create your personal OpenAI API key and add it as $OPENAI_API_KEY to your environment with:

export OPENAI_API_KEY = <YOUR_API_KEY>

2. Azure OpenAI usage

Add the following variables to your environment:

export AZURE_API_BASE = "https://<your-endpoint.openai.azure.com/"
export AZURE_API_KEY = <YOUR_AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY>
export AZURE_API_VERSION = "2023-05-15"

3. Local LLM usage with Llama.cpp

When using a local LLM no API key is required. On first usage of --local_model you will be asked for confirmation to intall llama-cpp-python with its dependencies. The installation process will take care of the hardware-accelerated build tailored to your hardware and OS. For further details see: installation-with-hardware-acceleration

To download a model from huggingface for local usage the most convenient way is using the huggingface-cli:

huggingface-cli download TheBloke/CodeLlama-13B-Python-GGUF codellama-13b-python.Q5_K_M.gguf

This will download the codellama-13b-python.Q5_K_M model to ~/.cache/huggingface/. After the download has finished the absolute path of the .gguf file is printed to the console which can be used as the value for --local_model.

Important

Since llama.cpp is used the model must be in the .gguf format.

🛟 Troubleshooting

• During installation with pipx

  pip failed to build package: tiktoken
  
  Some possibly relevant errors from pip install:
    error: subprocess-exited-with-error
    error: can't find Rust compiler
  

  Make sure the rust compiler is installed on your system from here.

🌟 Contributing

If you are missing a feature or facing a bug don't hesitate to open an issue or raise a PR. Any kind of contribution is highly appreciated!