Import a GitHub repository & ask about it in the Gemini web app

On a computer, you can attach a GitHub repository to your prompt with the GitHub app, and ask Gemini to:

• Help you better understand the codebase
• Answer questions about specific functions
• Suggest code additions and improvements
• Debug issues

• Be 18 or over.
• A personal Google Account that you manage on your own. For now, the GitHub app isn’t available while signed in to a work or school Google Account.
• Be signed in to the Gemini web app on a computer. Learn how to sign in to Gemini Apps.
• Have Gemini Apps Activity on.

1. On your computer, go to gemini.google.com.
2. In the text box at the bottom, click Add file   Import code .
3. Enter the GitHub repository or branch URL.
4. Click Import.
5. Follow any on-screen instructions to import the repository.
   • To import a private repository, your GitHub account that has access to that repository must be linked to your Google Account. If it isn’t, you’ll get the option to link it.
6. Enter your question or prompt.
7. Click Submit .

• What external libraries are used in the attached code?
• How can the attached code be more efficient?
• Write event handlers for the attached code to recommend products to users.

The GitHub app is enabled the first time you try to import a GitHub repository. You can enable or disable it at any time on your Apps page in Gemini settings.

1. On your computer, go to gemini.google.com.
2. At the bottom, click Settings Apps .
3. Disable the GitHub app .

You can unlink your GitHub account and revoke permissions to repositories through your Apps page in Gemini settings. This unlinks your GitHub account from your Google Account and all Google services.

1. On your computer, go to gemini.google.com.
2. At the bottom, click Settings Apps .
3. Under “GitHub,” click Learn more.
4. Click Disconnect.

Tips:

• You can also unlink your GitHub account from your Google Account’s third-party connections page. Learn how to manage third-party connections.
• If you unlink your GitHub account, you can still import public GitHub repositories, but can’t import private ones. To use a private repository again, link your GitHub account and import it again.

• Retrieve commit history, pull requests, or other metadata
• Read a repository by including a GitHub URL directly in your prompt
• Write to a code repository

• Gemini only connects to apps that are on your Apps page in Gemini settings. This includes apps you turn on when you specify them in your prompt with an "@" mention.
• Gemini checks for apps that can help it generate a more helpful response. If Gemini finds an app that can help, it automatically sends information from your conversation and other relevant information to that app. For example, Gemini will send your location data to Google Maps if you ask for coffee shops near you and the Google Maps app is on in your Apps page in Gemini settings.
• Gemini won’t access your personal content in other services without your permission. Some apps are designed to automatically work with Gemini apps.
• If you directly interact with another Google service in Gemini Apps, your activity might be saved by that other service. For example, if you watch a YouTube video in a Gemini app, YouTube may:
  • Collect your personal information.
  • Store and use that information according to YouTube’s terms of service.
  • Store your watch history in your YouTube History. Learn how to manage your YouTube watch history.
• Gemini Apps can connect with third-party apps and services. When they do, Gemini Apps share information with those apps and services to fulfill your requests. That information is then used by those third-party apps and services according to their own developers' privacy policies.
• If you disable the YouTube app, you can still talk Live about a video you’re viewing in the YouTube app.

Learn more about how connected apps work with your personal data.

• Gemini Apps Privacy Hub
• Use & manage apps in Gemini
• Upload & analyze files in Gemini Apps
• Manage connections between your Google Account and third-parties