Frequently asked questions

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What is CodeCobra?

CodeCobra is an AI agent for Odoo ERP. It connects to your live Odoo database, answers questions from real data, builds and tests custom Odoo modules, produces downloadable spreadsheets, documents and dashboards, and deploys changes to staging or production — without you writing code.

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Do I need to be a developer?

No. You describe what you need in plain language. CodeCobra writes a plan in business terms, you approve it, and it does the work. A developer on your team will get more out of it — they can read the diff, adjust the branch strategy and review the pull request. But nothing about the product requires one.

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Which Odoo versions does it support?

Odoo 16.0, 17.0, 18.0 and 19.0, in both Community and Enterprise editions.

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Does it work with Odoo Online, Odoo.sh, or self-hosted?

Any Odoo instance CodeCobra can reach over the network, which covers self-hosted, Odoo.sh and most Odoo Online setups. What matters is that the address is reachable and you can create a user with an API key.

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Will it change my production system?

Only when you tell it to. Every Odoo connection carries an access level you set — Read, Write or Delete — and a connection set to Read cannot change anything. Code changes go through a plan you approve and a pull request you merge, with production gated separately from staging.

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How is this different from Odoo Studio?

Odoo Studio is excellent for what it covers: adding fields, adjusting views, building simple automations through a visual editor. It stops where Python does. CodeCobra writes actual Odoo modules, so it handles the things Studio can’t — custom business logic, integrations with other systems, complex reports, data migrations, fixing errors in existing code. It also answers questions about your data, which Studio doesn’t do at all.

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How is this different from hiring an Odoo partner?

A partner brings judgement about your business that software doesn’t have, and for a large implementation that judgement is the valuable part. CodeCobra is faster and cheaper for defined work — the change you can describe in a paragraph, the report you need by Thursday, the error blocking your invoicing today. Plenty of companies use both: a partner for the shape of the system, CodeCobra for the steady stream of small things.

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What does it cost?

Usage-based, with no subscription, no monthly minimum and no per-user charge. You buy credit and draw it down. Rates are per million tokens and start at $0.30 input /$1.00 output on the cheapest class. See capability classes and rates for the full table.

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Is my code used to train AI models?

No. Your code, your prompts and your business data are never used to train, fine-tune or evaluate any model. The providers that run model inference are contractually prohibited from it too.

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Who owns the code it writes?

You do. It lands in your own GitHub repository, and you can download everything a task produced as a ZIP at any time. There is nothing to extract if you stop using CodeCobra.

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Can I try it before connecting my real database?

Yes — point it at a staging or test database. You can also use it without any connection at all to ask general Odoo questions, though it can’t tell you anything about your own system that way.

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What happens to my data if I delete something?

Deleting a task destroys its conversation, files, deliverables and workspace, including the container it ran in. Idle tasks are purged automatically after 90 days. See data retention.

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Can my whole team use it?

Yes, at no extra cost. Create an organization, invite anyone, and control access with teams and roles. There is no per-seat charge.