ChatGPT Deep Research + GitHub

Coders get READY! 📣

OpenAI just DROPPED a seriously cool update this week! 💥

ChatGPT’s “deep research” feature can now connect DIRECTLY to your GitHub repositories! 🤯

Yeah, your AI chat buddy can now poke around in your ACTUAL code, READMEs, and docs! 🕵️‍♂️

It’s in BETA (so, y’know, maybe a few quirks! 😉), but IMAGINE: Asking ChatGPT questions… …and it pulls answers + CITES SNIPPETS straight from YOUR projects! 🔥

Who Gets This New Toy? 🧸🌍

• ChatGPT Team Users: YOU’RE IN! Globally! 🎉 Go wild!
• Plus & Pro Peeps: Mostly good news! It’s rolled out for you… UNLESS you’re in the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK. (Sorry, folks! 😬 Rules are rules, apparently).
• Enterprise Ballers: Hang tight! Your access is “coming soon™️”.

(Psst! GitHub is its own beast with its own terms!)

How’s This Magic Work? ✨

When you hook up GitHub, ChatGPT’s deep research can:

• Slurp up live data from your chosen repos – code, docs, issues, the works! 📄
• Reason over it in real-time (like, actually think about YOUR code!). 🤔
• Read, analyze, and even CITE the relevant snippets directly from your GitHub content! ✅ No more guessing where answers came from!

Hook Me Up! 🔗 (Connecting Guide)

Easy peasy (mostly!):

1. In ChatGPT, pick “Deep research” in the composer.
2. Hit that little down arrow -> choose GitHub.
3. You’ll get whisked to GitHub to install & authorize the connector. 🤝
4. Choose which repos ChatGPT gets to peek into. 👀

OR…

• Dive into ChatGPT Settings ⚙️
• -> Connected apps
• -> Connectors
• -> Hit Connect next to GitHub.

Want to change repo access later? Click the Gear icon ⚙️ next to GitHub in settings. Simple!

Troubleshooting Tips 🛠️

Repo playing hide-and-seek? Don’t panic!

• Chill for 5! 🧘‍♀️ ~5 min delay for repos to show up. Patience! 🙏
• Private / Brand New Repo? ✨ Might need a nudge. Go to ChatGPT’s GitHub connector settings (that Gear icon ⚙️!) & configure access.
• Admin Says NO?! 🛑 Your GitHub org admin might have things locked down. In ChatGPT GitHub settings, hit “Request” access. Time to bring your IT admin 🍩!
• GitHub Indexing Black Hole? 🕳️ Sometimes GitHub’s search is slow. If ChatGPT can’t see it, GitHub might not either (yet!). Try forcing a GitHub index: search repo:{username/repo_name} import on GitHub. Give it another 5-10 mins.

Privacy Peek 👀

When you ask about your code, ChatGPT makes smart search queries for GitHub.

• You ask: “Where’s my backend file upload handler?”
• ChatGPT searches repo for: “file upload handler backend” (or similar).

It’s like an AI intern Googling your codebase FOR you! 🤓 Might try a few searches.

“Is OpenAI Training On My Code?!” 😱

IMPORTANT STUFF:

• Business Peeps (Team, Enterprise, etc.): By DEFAULT, OpenAI does NOT use your content to train models. Phew! 😌
• Individual Users (Free, Plus, Pro): If your “Improve the model for everyone” setting is ON… then yeah, your content MIGHT be used. You can TOGGLE THIS OFF! Your data, your choice (mostly!). ✅ / ❌

One Last Thing! (Beta Limits 😉)

Right now, you can search your repository NAMES. Searching specific file names directly? Not yet supported. It’s BETA, after all!