ExplainGitHub API
ExplainGitHub API lets you build repo-aware AI features
Use repository context to power codebase chat, developer copilots, support tools, and internal workflows.
Customer-facing developer products
Add “ask this repository”, PR summaries, issue copilots, or codebase chat directly into your product experience.
Internal engineering and support tools
Help engineering, support, QA, or ops teams get answers from private repositories without manually searching code and docs.
Docs, onboarding, and automation
Power docs assistants, developer onboarding flows, CI helpers, or internal automation that needs repository context.
Instantly Understand Any GitHub Repository
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ExplainGitHub API is now live. Read the launch and technical walkthrough.
History and Chats
Saved History and Chats — Pick up right where you left off
Ever solve a tricky flow and then forget which files mattered? History keeps your conversations and traces so you can jump back in instantly — across repos.
Why it’s useful
- Continue a deep dive without rebuilding context
- Share a link to a past trace with your team
- Compare how a flow changed over time
What’s saved
- Your prompts and follow‑ups
- Cited files and snippets pulled during the chat
- Repo and branch context
How to use it
- Ask a question in any repo (“Trace login → session creation → DB writes”)
- Click History to revisit the conversation later
- Resume, fork, or share the thread
Tips
- Name important threads so they’re easy to find later
- Pair History with the repo viewer to see cited files and context side‑by‑side
Privacy
- You control your data. Remove any conversation at any time
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