AI assistants in workspaces

Che supports AI coding assistants that are injected into workspaces and available from the terminal. You can select one or more AI providers when creating a workspace, and your administrator controls which providers are available.

When your administrator configures AI providers, an AI Provider section is displayed on the Create Workspace page. Selecting a provider injects the tool binary into the workspace editor container and adds it to PATH.

If no AI providers are configured, the AI Provider section is hidden.

The dashboard only shows tools that are compatible with the architecture of your cluster nodes. On IBM Z (s390x) or Power (ppc64le) clusters, tools that do not support those architectures are hidden automatically.

Default AI provider

If your administrator has set a default AI provider, the Create Workspace page displays it automatically. To override, expand Choose an AI Provider and select a different provider.

Selecting a tool version

When an AI provider offers multiple image variants (for example, next and insiders), an ellipsis menu (⋮) is displayed on the provider card. Click the menu to choose the version you want injected into your workspace. The selected version is shown as a label on the card.

The same version picker is available on the Overview tab of an existing workspace under AI Tool > edit.

AI Provider column in the Workspaces page

The Workspaces page displays an AI Provider(s) column showing the injected AI tool for each workspace.