Ellipsis

What is Ellipsis?

Ellipsis is an AI coding assistant that works inside your development workflow as a virtual software engineer. It reviews code, writes new code on request, answers questions about your codebase, implements features, and fixes bugs, using large language models to understand and generate code.

Its core strength is reviewing code directly within pull requests: it provides feedback and can generate code snippets or full features when explicitly requested. Security is built in — Ellipsis does not store your source code and always asks for permission before making any commits or pull requests.

Who created Ellipsis?

Ellipsis was created by Ellipsis AI Inc., a company based in New York, NY.

What is Ellipsis used for?

• Automated code reviews: Detailed summaries and suggestions on your code, delivered within pull requests.
• Bug fixes and simple changes: Automates bug fixes and straightforward code modifications.
• Feature implementation: Builds new features based on your specific requests.
• Requirement to code: Converts user requirements into functional, tested code.
• Pull request management: Interprets and addresses comments within pull requests, and can create new pull requests.
• Source code queries: Answers questions about your codebase.
• Broad compatibility: Supports a wide range of programming languages, frameworks, and libraries.
• Secure code handling: Never stores source code and never commits without explicit approval.

Key takeaways

Ellipsis is aimed at engineering teams that want to automate routine coding work — code review, bug fixes, minor adjustments, and turning requirements into working code — while keeping control over what gets committed. Its permission-based workflow and no-storage approach to source code make it a reasonable option for teams with security requirements.