| 1 | --- |
| 2 | title: Quickstart |
| 3 | description: Sign up, push a repository, open a work item, and have your own coding agent open a pull request that you merge. Then bring your team into Chat. |
| 4 | --- |
| 5 | |
| 6 | import { Steps, Tabs, TabItem } from '@astrojs/starlight/components'; |
| 7 | import Aside from '../../components/Aside.astro'; |
| 8 | import AgentSetup from '../../components/AgentSetup.astro'; |
| 9 | |
| 10 | This page takes you from sign-up to a pull request your coding agent |
| 11 | opened and you merged. It takes a few minutes. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | <Aside type="tip" title="Let an assistant do it"> |
| 14 | Give your AI assistant [g1t.sh/llms.txt](https://g1t.sh/llms.txt) and ask it |
| 15 | to set you up. It gives you a link to open in your browser, where you sign up |
| 16 | and approve it. It never sees your password. |
| 17 | </Aside> |
| 18 | |
| 19 | <Steps> |
| 20 | |
| 21 | 1. **Sign up** |
| 22 | |
| 23 | [Sign up](https://g1t.sh/register) with an email address and a |
| 24 | password, or with GitHub. Anyone can; no invite is needed. Confirm your |
| 25 | email with the code g1t sends (or the link in the same email). |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Your account comes with a **workspace** of its own, named after your |
| 28 | username. It holds your repositories and your channels. See |
| 29 | [workspaces](/guides/workspaces/). |
| 30 | |
| 31 | 2. **Install the CLI and sign in** |
| 32 | |
| 33 | <Tabs syncKey="os"> |
| 34 | <TabItem label="macOS and Linux"> |
| 35 | ```sh |
| 36 | curl -fsSL https://g1t.sh/install | sh |
| 37 | ``` |
| 38 | </TabItem> |
| 39 | <TabItem label="Windows"> |
| 40 | ```powershell |
| 41 | irm https://g1t.sh/install.ps1 | iex |
| 42 | ``` |
| 43 | </TabItem> |
| 44 | </Tabs> |
| 45 | |
| 46 | ```sh |
| 47 | g1t auth login --git |
| 48 | ``` |
| 49 | |
| 50 | `g1t` shows a code and opens your browser: check the code and approve. |
| 51 | `--git` also sets git up to use the same sign-in for `g1t.sh`, so |
| 52 | `git push` asks for nothing. `g1t auth status` shows who you are signed |
| 53 | in as. See [the g1t CLI](/guides/cli/). |
| 54 | |
| 55 | <Aside title="Without the CLI"> |
| 56 | Git and the API also take an [access token](/guides/authentication/#access-tokens): |
| 57 | create one in [Settings → Access tokens](https://g1t.sh/settings/tokens), |
| 58 | and give it to git as the password, with your username. |
| 59 | </Aside> |
| 60 | |
| 61 | 3. **Push a repository** |
| 62 | |
| 63 | From a git repository with at least one commit: |
| 64 | |
| 65 | ```sh |
| 66 | g1t repo create my-project --source . --remote g1t |
| 67 | ``` |
| 68 | |
| 69 | This makes `<workspace>/my-project`, private, adds it as the remote |
| 70 | `g1t` and pushes. Plain git works too: pushing to a repository that does |
| 71 | not exist creates it, private. |
| 72 | |
| 73 | ```sh |
| 74 | git remote add g1t https://g1t.sh/<workspace>/my-project.git |
| 75 | git push -u g1t main |
| 76 | ``` |
| 77 | |
| 78 | **New** in the site's header makes one empty, or imports one from |
| 79 | GitHub or any git host by its address. |
| 80 | |
| 81 | <Aside title="Coming from GitHub?"> |
| 82 | Rename `.github` to `.g1t` before you push, and your GitHub Actions |
| 83 | workflows run on g1t, most without changes. Workflows are compute: on a |
| 84 | free workspace, an owner checks a card once under **Settings → Billing |
| 85 | and plans** to start a $5 trial, which is never charged for the check. |
| 86 | See [GitHub Actions](/guides/actions/), |
| 87 | [No card, no compute](/guides/usage-and-billing/#no-card-no-compute) and |
| 88 | [what is not supported yet](/about/limitations/#actions-and-runners). |
| 89 | </Aside> |
| 90 | |
| 91 | 4. **Open a work item** |
| 92 | |
| 93 | On **Work**, in the left rail, choose **New work item** and pick the |
| 94 | repository as its target, or: |
| 95 | |
| 96 | ```sh |
| 97 | g1t work new --title "Greeting should name the caller" --body "Take a name from the first argument." |
| 98 | ``` |
| 99 | |
| 100 | A [work item](/guides/work-items/) belongs to the workspace; opened |
| 101 | from the repository, it has the repository as its origin. |
| 102 | |
| 103 | Say what is wrong or wanted, and what done means if you know it. Your |
| 104 | agent works from this text. |
| 105 | |
| 106 | 5. **Connect your coding agent** |
| 107 | |
| 108 | This exercise needs a coding client with local git and shell access. Chat apps |
| 109 | can inspect and discuss the project through MCP without a local checkout. |
| 110 | |
| 111 | <AgentSetup /> |
| 112 | |
| 113 | Approve in your browser when it asks. Then ask: |
| 114 | |
| 115 | > Work on work item 1 of the `<workspace>` workspace on g1t, in |
| 116 | > `<workspace>/my-project`. Open a pull request for it and record your |
| 117 | > session as you go. |
| 118 | |
| 119 | It opens a pull request, pushes its change, and your |
| 120 | workflows run on it as on anyone's. See |
| 121 | [Connect an AI client](/guides/bring-your-own-agent/). |
| 122 | |
| 123 | <Aside title="Or assign it to g1t"> |
| 124 | With an Anthropic key under the workspace's [**AI**](/guides/ai/) |
| 125 | settings, **Assign to g1t** in the work item's sidebar starts a session |
| 126 | on that account, as you, and its card shows in the work item's |
| 127 | conversation. |
| 128 | See [Assign g1t](/guides/sessions/#assign-g1t-or-ask-it-in-the-thread). |
| 129 | </Aside> |
| 130 | |
| 131 | 6. **Review and merge** |
| 132 | |
| 133 | Open the pull request. **Files changed** shows what it did, and |
| 134 | **Session** shows how: its prompts, reasoning and tool calls. Choose |
| 135 | **Merge**, or turn on **auto-merge** to have it land once its required |
| 136 | checks pass. The work item closes, recording which pull request landed |
| 137 | it. |
| 138 | |
| 139 | </Steps> |
| 140 | |
| 141 | ## Bring your team |
| 142 | |
| 143 | Choose **Chat** in the rail. Every workspace starts with `#general`, and |
| 144 | Chat is free on every plan. Adding people to a workspace comes with |
| 145 | [the g1t plan](/guides/usage-and-billing/#the-g1t-plan); on a free one, |
| 146 | [invite a friend](/guides/authentication/#invite-a-friend) to g1t instead, |
| 147 | or open a [public channel](/guides/chat/#public-channels) that anyone signed in to g1t can join. See |
| 148 | [Chat](/guides/chat/). |
| 149 | |
| 150 | ## Next |
| 151 | |
| 152 | - [Build and ship an app with an agent](/guides/build-and-ship/): from an empty folder to a deployed app. |
| 153 | - [How g1t works](/concepts/overview/): work items, pull requests, checks, review and merging. |
| 154 | - [Connect an AI client](/guides/bring-your-own-agent/): access, repository instructions and recording sessions. |
| 155 | - [GitHub Actions](/guides/actions/): your workflows, most unchanged. |
| 156 | - [MCP tools](/reference/mcp/) and the [API](/reference/api/): everything above, from code. |