Grom — Free, Open-Source AI Coding Assistant for VS Code (Ollama, LM Studio, Anthropic, and More) I've been building Grom , a free and open-source VS Code extension that brings agentic AI coding to your machine. No telemetry, no mandatory account, no subscription. If you use Ollama or LM Studio, nothing ever leaves your machine. What is it? Grom is a chat + agentic coding extension that lives in the VS Code sidebar. You can talk to it like a regular AI assistant, or switch it into BUILD mode where it reads files, writes code, searches your codebase, and runs terminal commands autonomously — pausing for your approval before anything destructive happens.…