Through @Codebase, Chat goes through these steps until it finds the most important pieces of code to use.

  • Gathering: scanning through your codebase for important files / code chunks
  • Reranking: reordering the context items based on relevancy to the query
  • Reasoning: thinking through a plan of using the context
  • Generating: coming up with a response

Another way of submitting an advanced codebase query is to click on the dropdown next to the Ctrl/⌘ + Enter button and select reranker for the search behavior. This is only available when @Codebase isn’t used, otherwise @Codebase takes precedence.