# NOVA > NOVA is a terminal-based AI coding tool that finds issues, applies safe patches, and keeps your repository stable without slowing you down. NOVA is India's first terminal-based AI coding tool, built by Bridgeye to help developers maintain healthier codebases automatically. It runs directly in your terminal, intercepts runtime errors in real time, and applies surgical patches without disrupting your workflow. NOVA is local-first, Git-friendly, and designed for real-world repositories of any size. - **Autonomous Recovery** — *Real-time crash interception and surgical patching that resolves runtime errors instantly, saving debugging time.* - **Debt Eradication** — *Automated background refactoring converts legacy patterns into fully-typed, modern code without manual effort.* - **Contextual Sovereignty** — *Advanced AST parsing maps your entire repository, giving NOVA project-wide awareness rather than file-level guessing.* - **Precision Injection** — *Surgical search-and-replace blocks modify logic without bloating source files, keeping diffs clean and reviewable.* - **Hardened Auth** — *Enterprise-grade JWT orchestration ensures proprietary logic stays local and never leaves your machine.* - **Git-Friendly Diffs** — *All changes are presented as clean, reviewable diffs so you can inspect and ship with confidence.* - **Healer** — *Monitors your build and catches bugs before they surface, intercepting failures at the terminal level.* - **Janitor** — *Cleans up technical debt like stale TODO comments and legacy patterns automatically in the background.* - **Easy Setup** — *Install NOVA via your terminal in seconds; no tab-switching or external IDE required to get started.* ## Features - Terminal-based AI coding assistant - Real-time crash interception and patching - Automated code refactoring and debt eradication - AST-based repository-wide context parsing - Surgical search-and-replace code injection - Git-friendly clean diffs - Local-first architecture - Enterprise-grade JWT authentication - Healer: build error detection and auto-fix - Janitor: automated cleanup of legacy code and TODOs - Auto-commit and auto-push support ## Integrations Git ## Platforms WEB, API ## Pricing Freemium — Free tier available with paid upgrades ## Links - Website: https://nova.bridgeye.com - Documentation: https://nova.bridgeye.com/documentation - EveryDev.ai: https://www.everydev.ai/tools/nova-bridgeye