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Eclipse AI: provide plugin eclipse.ai to support LLM #2097
Description
Let's make sure issue is not already fixed in latest builds first.
- I verified latest Integration Build of Eclipse SDK doesn't provide the feature.
Suggestion
Please provide the possibility to integrate local/self-hosted or cloud based LLM's into Eclipse without the need for 3rd party plugins.
Especially the support for local LLM's guarantees privacy and offline capability.
For inspiration, look at Eclipse Theia (https://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2024/10/07/introducing-theia-ai/) or https://github.com/gradusnikov/eclipse-chatgpt-plugin.
Support can be improved by providing something like https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile, which allows LLMs to be run with a single file (without the need for another third-party local server (e.g., Ollama, LM Studio) that needs to be run outside of the Eclipse IDE).
Community
- I understand suggesting an enhancement doesn't mandate anyone to implement it. Other contributors may consider this suggestion, or not, at their own convenience. The most efficient way to get it fixed is that I implement it myself and contribute it back as a good quality patch to the project.
Activity
merks commentedon Jul 30, 2025
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.copilot
nimo23 commentedon Jul 30, 2025
Copilot-Plugin s a client app that talks to the GitHub online services. But it would be very useful to extend this plugin to provide the use cases mentioned above.
mickaelistria commentedon Jul 30, 2025
Adding some AI assistance into Eclipse is already doable (see for example Copilot or other marketplace AI assistant), without need to change anything in Eclipse Platform so far.
Supporting AI is a downstream topic, that would be better covered as a new Eclipse project. So I'm going to close it here as there is nothing Eclipse Platform should act upon.
Please get in touch with the wider Eclipse IDE community (for example on the ide-dev@eclipse.org mailing-list) to discuss this idea with others, and maybe start a new Eclipse project, or get Eclipse Foundation to buy a new eclipse.ai domain out of this discussion.