Domino Workspaces include built-in support for AI coding assistants as part of the Domino Standard Environment.
You can launch a workspace and start using coding agents right away. No setup or environment customization needed.
The video below gives an overview on how to use AI coding and modeling assistants in Domino:
The Domino Standard Environment ships with three coding agents, pre-installed and ready to use:
| Agent | VS Code extension | CLI tool | RStudio, JupyterLab, etc. |
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GitHub Copilot | Pre-installed | - | - |
Claude Code | Pre-installed | Available | CLI works in any terminal |
Codex | Pre-installed | Available | CLI works in any terminal |
In VS Code workspaces, all three agents come as pre-installed extensions. Claude Code and Codex also work as CLI tools in any workspace IDE, including the VS Code terminal.
Coding assistants that run in Domino detect your Domino project automatically. They interact with platform resources, including datasets, jobs, and registered models, through a skills framework.
Your coding agent knows about your project files, datasets, and the full Domino platform. There’s no generic sandbox. The agent operates with full context of where the workspace runs and which tools are available.
Workspace home directory persistence preserves your coding agent settings and chat history.
When you restart a workspace, your agents keep their configuration, authentication state, and conversation context from previous sessions.
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Tip
| Enable home directory persistence in your workspace settings to keep your coding agent configuration across restarts. |
The topics in this section show you how to use AI coding assistants in your projects.
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Get started: Launch a workspace and authenticate your coding agent in under five minutes.
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Domino Skills: Explore the skills framework and the full list of Domino-specific actions available to your agent.
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Modeling assistant walkthrough: See a full end-to-end demo of how to train and compare models with the modeling assistant skill.
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Custom environments (advanced): Standardize on a different coding agent, pin versions, or add CLI tools using custom environments.
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Troubleshoot: Get information about known issues and workarounds for coding assistants in Domino workspaces.