Getting your project onto GitHub

GitHub is optional. You can work with AdenAI without ever having heard of it. But if you want the code in your own hands, you get it.

Two routes

Without GitHub (default). The code lives in your project workspace on our side. AdenAI creates a local Git repository there and records every ticket as its own commit. You see the result in the preview and can download everything as a ZIP at any time. No pull request, no push, because there is nowhere to push to.

With your own GitHub repo. You store your repository address on the project. AdenAI then works inside it: a branch per ticket, a pull request at the end, merged straight away. The code is yours, it lives in your account, and it stays there even if you stop using us.

Connecting your repo

1. Create a repository on GitHub if you do not have one.
2. Open Settings on the project.
3. Under GitHub, enter the SSH address, the form git@github.com:yourname/my-project.git, not the https:// one.
4. Save, then switch on Back up to my GitHub.

From the next ticket onwards, AdenAI pushes into your repo.

Connecting your GitHub account

For the sync switch to appear at all, your GitHub account has to be linked to your AdenAI account once. That happens in the "Connect GitHub" onboarding step, or later under Profile.

Connecting an empty repo

If you connect a freshly created, completely empty GitHub repository, it stays empty at first: AdenAI only seeds starter templates into projects without their own repo, so that nothing you did not ask for ends up in yours. In that case make your first ticket an explicit "set up the basic structure", or leave the repo out and connect it later.

Taking the code without GitHub

Project settings has Code export: a ZIP with the current state of all project files. That is a complete project you can carry on building on your own machine or host elsewhere. It contains no credentials. Those stay encrypted with us and have to be set again wherever you move to.