Blog Post

Why Your AI Coding Assistant Needs Full Context

June 27, 2025
3 min read
A person pointing at an AI robot working on a laptop, symbolizing context-aware guidance.

AI coding assistants excel at boilerplate, yet without full context they behave like newcomers.[1] Hand a senior dev just the starter file—no docs, no tickets, no other modules—and you'll get guesses: mismatched fixes, duplicated code, overlooked business rules.

The problem

  • Narrow visibility.Language-model windows capture only the few files you paste, leaving most of the codebase unseen.[2][5]
  • Blind to team conventions.Naming schemes, design patterns, and approved libraries live in guides and wikis—far outside the model's training data.[1]
  • Business-logic gaps.Requirements and edge-case rules sit in task trackers or docs the assistant never reads.[3]
  • Missed runtime signals.Error traces and logs that reveal real-world failures stay siloed, so the AI can't learn from production pain.[3]
  • Developer overhead.Engineers become "context copy-pasters," feeding snippets to the tool and fixing off-target suggestions—eroding the promised productivity boost.

Our Solution: A Unified Context Engine

We're building a context engine that unifies your development ecosystem—project trackers, source control, documentation, and monitoring tools. It follows a simple yet powerful operational flow:[4]

Operational Flow: From Data to Context

First, we integrate with your tools. Then, our system performs knowledge extraction, building a living codegraph of your repository. Finally, this enriched context is served via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), making it instantly available to your AI assistant.

Use Cases: Real-World Impact

In practice, you can transform a non-technical Jira ticket into a developer-ready prompt, trace a Sentry bug to its root cause, or onboard an assistant to a legacy codebase in minutes.

The result? Your assistant produces code that aligns with your patterns, satisfies the task requirements, and avoids known pitfalls—no manual babysitting required.

Background:

This idea spun off from our work on AI agents that review pull requests. To make those reviewers truly useful we:

  • Integrated with the development stack to ingest tasks, docs, logs, and test results.
  • Built a codegraph creator that maps every module, dependency, and architectural layer.
  • Linked business-logic knowledge from tickets and discussions back to nodes in that graph.

With that full picture, the review agents began catching logical inconsistencies, domain-specific edge cases, and pattern violations that basic language models missed. We soon realized the same contextual engine could supercharge everyday coding assistants, turning generic suggestions into production-ready solutions.