Orbital AI Coding Agent / AI Code Reviews

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MatterAI distributes Orbital, an AI coding agent packaged as a universal VSIX on Open VSX under the extension id matterai/axon-code. The listing describes an agent for planning, building, and fixing code with integrated AI code review, and registry metadata shows a rapid release cadence — version 6.8.2 published on August 28, 2026, with roughly 23,700 downloads — signaling active commercial development. The source repository (MatterAIOrg/Orbital-Extension) is not publicly browsable, and licensing terms live in a LICENSE.txt inside the VSIX rather than an open license, so mechanics beyond the product description cannot be verified from public materials. Its audience is developers on VS Code-family editors, including Open VSX-based distributions such as VSCodium, who want coding-agent and review functionality from a single install. Evaluation depends on the extension itself or vendor documentation, since no public docs site is advertised.