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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15

Rizo Keeps Your VS Code AI Chat in One Lane

rizobot.com ↗ · Developer Corner · score 82.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

Rizo is a BYOK VS Code coding assistant that locks each chat to one provider while letting you switch model variants and reasoning effort within that provider.

Why it surfaced

The interesting control is the constraint: choose Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Kimi, or Free once, then keep the conversation on that provider. Rizo also makes cost and safety visible, routing calls through the user's OpenRouter key, showing diffs before writes, and requiring approval for shell commands and file changes.

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This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.