AI-Assisted Coding

Some take-home assessments are AI-assisted — you solve the problem with a coding assistant we provide, instead of entirely on your own. You may also hear this called “vibe coding” informally. This guide covers getting set up and working with the assistant; for the parts shared with every take-home (deadline, packaging your ZIP, submitting), see the Take-Home Assessment guide. Your recruiter will tell you if this applies to you. If you’re not sure, check your invitation email or your assignment page.

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What’s Different From a Standard Assessment

• You’re given OpenCode, an AI coding assistant that runs in your terminal, with an AI usage budget already funded for you
• Your AI session is recorded as part of your submission — the AI reviews how you worked with the assistant, not just your final code
• Everything else works the same: same deadline, same ZIP upload, same “you can’t resubmit once you’re done”

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Setting Up Your Workspace

Your assignment page gives you two ways to get set up. Pick whichever you’re more comfortable with — they end up in the same place.

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Automatic Setup

Pick your editor and operating system: You’re then given a single command to paste into a terminal:

• Windows (PowerShell): irm "<your assignment's install link>" | iex
• Mac/Linux (bash): curl -fsSL "<your assignment's install link>" | bash

The link is generated specifically for your invitation, so it’s shown on your own assignment page rather than reproduced here. Here’s exactly what running it does:

1. Creates (or uses) a workspace folder on your machine and initializes a local git repository in it
2. Installs the OpenCode CLI, if you don’t already have it
3. Requests an AI credential using your invitation, and writes it into OpenCode’s configuration
4. Installs a small plugin that tags your AI session so it can be identified during review — it doesn’t carry any login credentials of its own and doesn’t restrict what you can do with the assistant
5. Downloads your problem statement into the folder as problem_statement.md
6. Writes a small submit script (submit.sh on Mac/Linux, submit.ps1 on Windows) you can run later to upload your work
7. Sets up your editor: for VS Code, it adds a couple of one-click tasks (open the problem statement, start the assistant, submit your work) and opens the folder for you; for Zed, IntelliJ, or Visual Studio, it launches that editor and starts the assistant in a terminal; for any other editor, it leaves the folder ready and tells you where it is

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If You’re Using VS Code

The first time VS Code opens your workspace, it may open in Restricted Mode and ask you to trust the folder before tasks or extensions can run: Click Trust to enable the one-click tasks (like “Submit assessment”). If you’d rather not grant that trust, you don’t have to — just open a terminal in the folder yourself, run opencode ., and open problem_statement.md from the file explorer instead.

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Manual Setup

If you’d rather do each step yourself instead of running the install command:

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Submitting Your Work

Same as a standard assessment — package your project as a ZIP and upload it (see Packaging Your ZIP File). If you used the automatic setup, you can also run the generated submit.sh/submit.ps1 script, or use the “Submit assessment” task from inside VS Code if it was set up for you.