Troubleshooting Cody

Learn about common reasons for errors that you might run into when using Cody and how to troubleshoot them.

If you encounter errors or bugs while using Cody, try applying these troubleshooting methods to understand and configure the issue better. If the problem persists, you can report Cody bugs using the issue tracker, by using the Support Forum, or by asking in the Discord server.

VS Code extension

Cody is not responding in chat

If you're experiencing issues with Cody not responding in chat, follow these steps:

  • Ensure you have the latest version of the Cody VS Code extension. Use the VS Code command Extensions: Check for Extension Updates to verify
  • Check the VS Code error console for relevant error messages. To open it, run the VS Code command Developer: Toggle Developer Tools and then look in the Console for relevant messages

Access Cody logs

VS Code logs can be accessed via the Outputs view. To access logs, you need to enable Cody logs in verbose mode. To do so:

  • Go to the Cody Extension Settings and enable: Cody › Debug: Enable and Cody › Debug: Verbose
  • Restart or reload your VS Code editor
  • You can now see the logs in the Outputs view
  • Open the view via the menu bar: View > Output
  • Select Cody by Sourcegraph from the dropdown list

View Cody's autocomplete logs from the Output View in VS Code

Errors trying to install Cody on macOS

If you encounter the following errors:

Command 'Cody: Set Access Token' resulted in an error
 
Command 'cody.set-access-token' not found

Follow these steps to resolve the issue:

  • Close your VS Code editor
  • Open your Keychain Access app
  • Search for cody
  • Delete the vscodesourcegraph.cody-ai entry in the system keychain on the left
  • Reopen the VS Code editor. This should resolve the error

Opening up Keychain Access

Signin fails on each VS Code restart

If you find yourself being automatically signed out of Cody every time you restart VS Code, and suspect it's due to keychain authentication issues, you can address this by following the steps provided in the official VS Code documentation on troubleshooting keychain issues. These guidelines should help you troubleshoot and resolve any keychain-related authentication issues, ensuring a seamless experience with Cody on VS Code.

No context files were included by Cody

If Cody is not responding with answers relevant to your codebase, it might be missing context files. To make sure that context files are included, follow these steps:

  • From your Cody chat window enable the checkbox for Enhanced Context panel
  • Next, go to the Output log panel in VS Code and select Cody by Sourcegraph from the dropdown menu
  • Finally, copy the output log. We're specifically looking for log messages like these:
█ SimpleChatPanelProvider: getEnhancedContext > embeddings (start)
█ SimpleChatPanelProvider: getEnhancedContext > searching local embeddings
█ SimpleChatPanelProvider: getEnhancedContext > embeddings (end)
█ SimpleChatPanelProvider: getEnhancedContext > search
█ symf: using downloaded symf "/Users/beyang/Library/Application Support/Code/User/globalStorage/sourcegraph.cody-ai/symf/symf-v0.0.6-aarch64-macos"
█ SimpleChatPanelProvider: getEnhancedContext > search (end)
█ DefaultPrompter.makePrompt: Ignored 8 additional context items due to limit reached

Rate limits

On the free plan, Cody provides 500 autocomplete suggestions and 20 chat and command invokations per user per month.

On the Pro and Enterprise plans, there are much higher limits that are used to keep our services operational. These limits reset within a day.

Error logging in VS Code on Linux

If you encounter difficulties logging in to Cody on Linux using your Sourcegraph instance URL, along with a valid access token, and notice that the sign-in process in VS Code hangs, it might be related to underlying networking rules concerning SSL certificates.

To address this, follow these steps:

  • Close your VS Code editor
  • In your terminal, type and run the following command: echo "export NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0">> ~/.bashrc
  • Restart VS Code and try the sign in process again

Error exceeding localStorage quota

When using Cody chat, you may come across this error:

Failed to execute 'setItem' on 'Storage': Setting the value of 'user-history:$user_id' exceeded the quota.

This error indicates that the chat history size surpasses the capacity of your browser's local storage. Cody stores comprehensive context data with each chat message, contributing to this limitation.

To fix this, navigate to https://sourcegraph.example.com/cody/chat and click Clear Chat History if your instance is on v5.2.3+. For older versions, clear your browsing data or browser history.

Record performance traces for Cody

You can get performance traces from the Cody VS Code extension in production with full support for source maps. To do so:

  • Start VS Code with a special runtime flag. In macOS, you can do so via the terminal like this:
/Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron --inspect-extensions=9333

Note that you may need to quit VSCode first, then run that command to re-launch it. It will open all of your windows and tabs again.

  • After VS Code is started, head over to Chrome and go to chrome://inspect, which takes you to the following:

  • Configure the inspect server you started on port 9333 from here. To do so, click on Open dedicated DevTools for Node, then go to the Connection tab, and make sure to add localhost:9333 to the list

  • Now head back to the chrome://inspect tab, and you should see a new remote target that you can inspect

  • Clicking this will open a (somewhat reduced) DevTools view. Great! We've almost got it. From here you can go to the Performance tab to record a trace. And finally, swap tabs to the VS Code window and interact with the extension. Come back later to stop the recording and export it.

JetBrains IntelliJ extension

Access Cody logs

JetBrains logs can be accessed via the Output panel. To access logs, you must first enable Cody logs from the Settings menu. To do so:

  • Open the Settings panel (⌘, for MacOS) (Ctrl Alt 0S for Windows)
  • Go to Sourcegraph & Cody
  • Click on Cody
  • Check the box to Enable debug
  • Optionally, select the box to enable Verbose debug
  • Click Apply
  • To access the logs, go to Help - Show Log in Finder
  • Open the idea.log file
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