Dwight: AI Development, Inside Neovim.

Scope. Plan. Build. Ship. Learn.

Dwight turns your Neovim into an AI-powered development environment. It doesn't replace your editor — it makes it smarter. Feature pragmas in your source code scope context, autonomous agents plan and execute multi-step tasks with verification gates, and a learning system means every session improves the next one.

No context windows to manage. No copy-pasting into chat. Just describe what you want, and Dwight builds it — with git checkpoints at every step.

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Why Dwight?

AI coding tools either give you autocomplete or require you to leave your editor. Dwight does neither.

Code-Scoped Context

Stop feeding entire codebases into AI. Dwight uses pragma comments in your source to define features, and treesitter to extract signatures. The AI sees exactly what it needs — nothing more.

// User authentication and session management. @feature:auth
package auth

Three Modes of Interaction

• Inline Editing — select code, pick a mode (/refactor, /test, /fix), get in-buffer edits
• Agent Mode — describe a task, the agent reads files, writes code, runs commands autonomously
• Auto Mode — describe a complex task, Dwight breaks it into sub-tasks with verification gates and git checkpoints

Skill System

Skills are reusable markdown guides that encode your project's coding patterns:

:DwightGenSkill      " AI-generates a skill from a description
:DwightMarketplace   " Browse curated skill packs for Go, React, Rust, etc.

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Installation

lazy.nvim:

{
  "otaleghani/dwight.nvim",
  dependencies = {
    "nvim-lua/plenary.nvim",
    "nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter",
  },
  config = function()
    require("dwight").setup({
      backend = "claude_code",     -- or "codex", "gemini", "opencode"
    })
  end,
}

Prerequisites

• Neovim 0.10+
• A CLI agent — one of:
  • Claude Code (npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code)
  • OpenAI Codex (npm i -g @openai/codex)
  • Gemini CLI (npm i -g @google/gemini-cli)
• Git — Dwight uses git for checkpoints and rollbacks
• An API key (optional) — for skill generation and single-shot commands. Set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY or OPENAI_API_KEY.

See Getting Started for the full setup guide.

First Use

:DwightInit                   " Initialize .dwight/ in your project
:DwightBootstrap              " Auto-add @feature pragmas to all files
:DwightAuto Create a REST API " Plan + execute a multi-step task

Core Workflow

1. Scope → Core Concepts

Add pragma comments to define features: // @feature:auth, // @feature:database. Bootstrap does this automatically.

2. Edit → Inline Editing

Select code and use modes like /refactor, /test, /fix for focused in-buffer edits.

3. Build → Agent Mode / Auto Mode

:DwightAgent runs a single autonomous task. :DwightAuto decomposes complex tasks into sub-tasks with verification.

4. Review → Session Replay

Step through what the agent did with :DwightReplay. Check the diff with :DwightDiffReview.

5. Ship → Git Operations / GitHub Integration

:DwightCommit writes smart commits. :DwightCI auto-fixes CI failures. :DwightPR generates pull requests.

6. Learn → Core Concepts

Dwight extracts lessons from each session and applies them to future tasks automatically.

Feature Overview

See the full command reference for all 85+ commands.

Advanced Features

Multi-Repo Workspaces

Work across multiple repositories as a single workspace:

:DwightWorkspaceAdd ../shared-lib
:DwightWorkspaceFeatures

See Workspace for setup and usage.

MCP Server Integration

Connect external tools via the Model Context Protocol:

require("dwight").setup({
  mcp_servers = {
    { name = "db", command = "mcp-server-sqlite", args = { "project.db" } },
  },
})

See Providers and Models for MCP configuration.

Custom Language Support

Extend Dwight with project-specific language definitions:

require("dwight").setup({
  languages = {
    java = { detect = {"pom.xml"}, test_cmd = "mvn test -q", build_cmd = "mvn compile -q" },
  },
})

Guides

• Workflow Recipes — end-to-end walkthroughs for common tasks
• FAQ — frequently asked questions
• Error Guide — common error messages and fixes
• Changelog — version history and notable changes

Community & Contributing

Dwight is open source (MIT).

• Found a bug? Open an issue on GitHub.
• Questions? Check the FAQ or run :checkhealth dwight — it catches most setup problems.