What is Groundhog

Groundhog is an AI coding assistant designed primarily to teach users how coding agents like Cursor function internally. It aims to provide a foundational understanding of these tools, enabling users to utilize them more effectively or even create their own.

Use cases

Use cases for Groundhog include learning how to interpret and understand code snippets, enhancing debugging skills, and exploring the architecture of coding agents. It serves as a foundational tool for those interested in coding and software development.

How to use

To use Groundhog, you can execute commands through its command-line interface. The basic command structure is ‘Groundhog [options]’. For example, to get explanations for code snippets, you would use ‘Groundhog explain’.

Key features

Key features of Groundhog include detailed code explanations, a modern architecture built with Rust for enhanced performance and reliability, comprehensive logging and telemetry for debugging, and an easy-to-use CLI interface.

Where to use

Groundhog can be utilized in educational settings, software development environments, and by individuals looking to deepen their understanding of coding assistants and their underlying mechanisms.

Groundhog AI Coding Assistant

Groundhog’s primary purpose is to teach people how Cursor and all these other coding agents work under the hood. If you understand how these coding assistants work from first principles, then you can drive these tools harder (or perhaps make your own!). As part of the series kicked off at http://ghuntley.com/specs we’ll be building it together, increment by increment.

Please don’t raise GitHub issues mentioning that XYZ does not work as I’m yet to decide on the community model around the project and doing customer support for free is not high up on my list.

Groundhog is a teaching tool first. If you want a full-blown thing right now, go check out “Goose”, “Roo/Cline”, “Aider” or “AllHands”.

Features

• Code Explanation: Get detailed explanations of code snippets and files
• Modern Architecture: Built with Rust for performance and reliability
• Comprehensive Logging: Built-in logging and telemetry for debugging and monitoring
• CLI Interface: Easy-to-use command-line interface

Installation

[Installation instructions to be added]

Usage

The basic command structure is:

Groundhog <command> [options]

Available Commands

• explain: Get explanations for code snippets or files

  Groundhog explain
  

More commands will be added in future releases.

Development

Prerequisites

• Rust toolchain
• [Other prerequisites to be added]

Building from Source

git clone [repository-url]
cd Groundhog
cargo build

Running Tests

cargo test

Documentation

Detailed documentation is available in the specs/ directory:

• Architecture
• CLI Interface
• Logging & Telemetry
• Commands

Contributing

[Contribution guidelines to be added]

License

[License information to be added]