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AI auto-completion

Beyond the deterministic, schema-aware suggestions, SnoutData offers AI auto-completion: inline "ghost text" that predicts the rest of what you are typing, the way a code assistant does. Press Tab to accept it.

Ghost-text completion suggesting the rest of a SELECT statement

It completes whole clauses, not just single tokens, using fill-in-the-middle so it respects the code on both sides of your cursor.

Ghost-text completing a multi-line query with WHERE and ORDER BY

The completion model​

Completion uses its own dedicated model, separate from the chat model list. It is tuned for speed and SQL fill-in-the-middle rather than raw reasoning, so a small, fast model beats a large chat model here. In SnoutData it is served as Snout Complete.

Settings​

Open Settings, AI Settings, Auto-completion to:

  • Enable or disable AI completion (the ghost text in the editor).
  • Choose the trigger: automatic as you type, or manual.
  • Pick the completion model.

The Auto-completion settings: enable, trigger, and completion model

note

This is different from the plain schema-aware completion described in Editor basics, which is deterministic, local, and always on. AI auto-completion is the predictive ghost text and can be turned off.