Change code with the Liho agent

What you need

• Liho IDE for macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows or Linux.
• A project folder under Git, which makes changes easy to track and undo.
• A model connection: Liho LLM, OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI or another OpenAI-compatible gateway. The IDE has no built-in model.
• The project’s own tools: interpreter, compiler, test runner. The IDE does not install them.

Steps

1. Connect a model

   The quickest way is to sign in to Liho LLM: the connection appears by itself. Another provider’s key is added under “AI Agents → Model connections”; keys are kept in the system secret store.

   Liho LLM models in Liho IDE

2. Open the project and the agent chat

   Choose “Open Folder…” (Ctrl+Shift+O, ⇧⌘O on macOS). Then open the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P, ⇧⌘P on macOS) and run “AI: open the Liho agent”. The Liho agent comes first in the “AI Agents” panel; its start button is active once a connection and a model are selected.

3. Give context and describe the task

   Point to the files with “@” or with the “AI Agents: add current file to chat” command. Describe what to change and how to check the result.

   Example taskCopy

   In @src/pricing.ts, applyDiscount ignores the minimum order amount. Add a check: the discount applies from 1000 ₽. Update the tests in @src/pricing.test.ts and do not change the module’s public API.

4. Approve actions

   When the agent needs to change a file or run a command, a permission request appears in the chat. Edits and commands have no “always allow” option: each one is approved separately with “Allow once”.

5. Review the diff hunk by hunk

   After the response, a “Changes” block with the files and hunks appears in the chat. The agent has already written these edits to the working folder; the review decides which of them stay:

   • “Accept” or “Reject” for a single hunk;
   • “Accept file” or “Reject file” for a whole file;
   • “Accept all” or “Reject all” for the whole set.

   Then click “Apply decisions”: accepted hunks stay and rejected ones are rolled back. If a file changed in the meantime, the IDE overwrites nothing and offers to refresh the diff.

6. Run the tests

   Open the “Testing” panel: it finds pytest, go test, Vitest and Jest tests and shows a failed test with its error. You can also run a task from .vscode/tasks.json or a command in the terminal. If a test fails, describe the error to the agent in the same chat.

7. Commit

   In the Git panel, review the final changes, stage the hunks you want and commit. Push is a separate action.

What you get

• A change you reviewed hunk by hunk before committing.
• The session history in the agent chat, which you can return to and continue.
• Time, tokens and cost of the task in the task center (the “AI Agents: task center” command).

Next

• Liho IDE
• Liho LLM models in Liho IDE
• Security and access
• Model catalog