Copilot is the most widely used AI coding assistant in the world. It is excellent at inline completions and the new Workspace mode is competent at small refactors. Like Cursor, it is closed source and tied to the editor surface. Like Cursor, your code transits Microsoft's infrastructure.
- Best-in-class IDE integration
- Massive training data and fine-tuning advantages
- Tight integration with GitHub PR workflows
- Closed-source pipeline, you cannot see or change the prompts
- Code transits GitHub's infrastructure, which some compliance contexts forbid
- Subscription pricing per seat
- No marketplace for custom agents you control end to end
What you get when you switch
Self-host the entire stack
Your code never leaves your network. Use any LLM provider, including local models served by Ollama or vLLM.
Inspect and edit every prompt
The system prompts live in YAML on your disk. Read them, change them, version them with git.
Custom agents, not just Copilot's defaults
Build a coding agent tuned to your repo, your conventions, your tests. Push it to the Hub for your team.
Install and run a real agent
# one-line install (Mac, Linux, Windows + Git Bash)
curl -sSL https://digitorn.ai/install | sh
# install a coding agent from the Hub
digitorn install hub://digitorn/digitorn-code
# chat with it
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Engineering notes from the Digitorn team. No marketing, no launch announcements, no "10 prompts that will change your life". Just the things we write that we'd want to read.