Codistry Ships a Local Repository Context Engine for VS Code That Surfaces Files That Change Together

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Reviewed on August 2, Codistry is Adronite's model-agnostic VS Code coding agent whose defining feature is a Context Engine that builds a local structural map of a repository, finds code by concept, preselects likely relevant files at task start, and surfaces files that historically change together, refreshing after commits, checkouts, and pulls. It supports Anthropic and OpenAI directly plus any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with tool calling, and includes definable subagents with constrained tools and max-turn limits. The vendor documentation still labels the index experimental and advises treating its output as orientation rather than truth, which is the honest framing for any AST-derived code graph.