FAQ

Qodo Aware – Frequently Asked Questions

What is Qodo Aware?

Qodo Aware is the code intelligence engine behind the Qodo platform. It connects to your organization’s codebase, understands your architecture, and powers advanced AI agents to help you reason about code, systems, and dependencies.

What does Qodo Aware actually do?

Qodo Aware builds a deep understanding of your codebase:

• It indexes code across all your repositories, creating a structural and semantic map.

• It powers agents like Ask Agent and Deep Research Agent to provide context-aware help.

• It enables smarter answers in products like Qodo Gen, Qodo Merge, and external tools via MCP.

Think of it as an AI engineer that’s read all your code—and can explain it back to you, reason through changes, or surface important relationships.

Where can I use Qodo Aware?

Qodo Aware is available across the Qodo platform:

• Qodo Gen: Brings codebase-wide understanding into your IDE.

• Qodo Merge: Enhances review, implement, and ask workflows with full-repo context.

• As an MCP: Can be integrated into any tool that supports MCPs.

What’s the difference between Ask Agent and Deep Research Agent?

Agent	Best For	Strengths
Ask Agent	Quick, scoped Q&A	Fast, grounded, context-aware
Deep Research Agent	Complex, cross-repo analysis	Multi-step reasoning, deep insight

Use Ask when you need quick understanding. Use Deep Research when you're planning refactors, architectural changes, or debugging across systems.

What kinds of questions can I ask Qodo Aware?

Some common examples:

• “Where is this function used across our repos?”

• “If I change this API response format, what breaks?”

• “How does session management work end-to-end?”

• “What services call this shared utility?”

Qodo Aware understands usage patterns, dependencies, and architectural intent—it’s more than just code search.

Is my code secure?

Yes. Qodo Aware only accesses the codebases you explicitly connect and tag. Data is handled in compliance with enterprise security standards, and never shared outside your organization.

You code never resides in Qodo servers.

How does this compare to AI code assistants?

Most assistants understand a file. Qodo Aware understands your entire system. It goes beyond autocomplete and one-off completions to help you:

• Understand how things work

• Refactor safely

• Make changes with full context

Why not just use RAG?

Traditional RAG systems retrieve a few snippets and then reason only over those. If the right context wasn’t pulled at the start, the answer can miss the mark.

Qodo Aware takes this further. It doesn’t just retrieve code — it deeply indexes your entire codebase (across thousands of repos and years of history) and applies agentic reasoning on top. That means:

• Smarter retrieval: Not just nearby code, but the right functions, commits, discussions, and docs.

• Multi-agent reasoning: Analyzes dependencies, intent, and tradeoffs like a senior engineer would.

• Full-system view: Scales to whole architectures, not just isolated files.

The result is an assistant that can handle both quick “what does this function do?” lookups and complex “what breaks if we refactor this?” research — without getting stuck on the wrong context.