How to chat in Avante without access to any of my (proprietary) code?

[fredrikaverpil]

Is there a way to invoke Avante and chat with e.g. Claude's models - but without having Avante supply the LLM with any code in opened buffers or in my project etc?

In my case I'm working on proprietary code, and I need to make sure it doesn't get sent to an LLM.

Can I perhaps invoke :AvanteAsk with some option?

If I just invoke :AvanteAsk, it has pre-selected the currently opened buffer. Under "Selected files", I can remove the file with d but this also closes Avante.

Note

For anyone else reading this, who might want the same feature; codecompanion.nvim does not default to sending off your code to the LLM. You have to specifically type in #buffer <your question> for example, for it to send the buffer contents to the LLM.

[rbhanot4739]

For me it doesn't close the chat but can continue chatting in that session, however the moment I toggle sidebar it adds the file again which can be unnecessary and unrelated context to the chat you are having.

[teto]

I was looking at the source to implement this but turns out it's an existing option (sad there is no :h avante that oculd have shown this) to achieve that:

lua require("avante.api").ask({ without_selection = true; })