NaturalEdit turns natural language code summaries into a first-class interactive representation — tightly linked to your source code and bidirectionally synchronized with every edit. For detailed information, read our paper.
Adaptive Code Summaries
Select any code region and generate a natural language summary. Adjust the view on the fly:
- Structure: toggle between paragraph and bulleted list
- Granularity: switch between a high-level overview, a procedural summary, or a line-by-line explanation
Interactive NL–Code Mapping
Hover over any sentence or bullet in the summary to highlight the corresponding code block. Click to navigate directly to that scope.
Intent-Driven Editing
Instead of editing code or the summary manually, describe what you want in plain language. NaturalEdit will:
- Propose a summary diff showing exactly how it interprets your intent
- Let you review and refine before anything is changed
- Generate the code change once you approve
- Auto-update the summary with an incremental diff so you can validate the result
- Select a code region in the editor
- Click Summarize Selected Code in the NaturalEdit panel
- Use the structure toggle and granularity slider to explore the summary
- Hover summary segments to trace them to code
- Type an instruction and click Apply to Summary
- Review the proposed NL diff → approve → inspect the synchronized code diff
- VS Code 1.89.0 or higher (compatible with Cursor and other VS Code forks)
- OpenAI API key with access to
gpt-4.1
- Summary generation depends on LLM response time and may feel slow on large code blocks
- At high granularity, summary diffs can be verbose — the most important changes may require careful reading
Initial release.
- Adaptive multi-faceted code summaries
- Interactive NL–code mapping with AST-based structural alignment
- Intent-driven bidirectional synchronization with incremental diffs