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[Kolenkovskin]

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Hello! Please help!

I am developing a project using ChatGPT and it would be wonderful to save the project in repository to share it with ChatGPT by one link, but the issue that ChatGPT is not able to review the repository even though he tells that he is able to. The repository I am trying to share the link of is public, what is the condition for cGPT to read it. The Grok has the same issue. I overlooked all the settings and there is nothing to hinder, but cGPT just can't read the repository link of is shared with him. Please help to understand the issue. Thank you.

[ArpanCodeX]

Trying to get ChatGPT or Grok to review your public GitHub repository fails because these web-based AIs have no direct internet access. This is a built-in security limitation, not a bug with your settings.

While you can manually paste code, this is impractical for large, multi-file projects, as the AI lacks the full context.

The article recommends Cursor AI as a solution. Cursor is an AI-powered code editor (built on VS Code) that runs locally on your machine. Because it runs locally, it can read and understand your entire codebase (frontend, backend, and all files). This allows the AI to perform complex, project-wide tasks like refactoring or syncing APIs, which web-based tools cannot do.

[mecodeatlas]

Hey there! 👋

Thanks for posting in the GitHub Community, @Kolenkovskin! We're happy you're here. You are more likely to get a useful response if you are posting in the applicable category. The Accessibility category is a place for our community to discuss and provide feedback on the digital accessibility of GitHub products. Digital accessibility means that GitHub tools, and technologies, are designed and developed so that people with disabilities can use them.

I've gone ahead and moved this to the correct category for you. Good luck!

[Mert-Sehri]

ChatGPT specifically is a large language model where GPT stands for Generative Pretrained Transformers. Pretrained being the highlight here means that the model is trained on many samples of textual data during the pretraining stage. This lets the model learn patterns in language, but it does not save or store the actual dataset it only keeps the learned patterns in its parameters. Also, it has no access to the internet during normal use; it only uses what it learned during pretraining. The short answer is that it does not have access to internet in realtime. Hence the link to your repository won't be accessible by it. Another solution is downloading and uploading your repository manually to ChatGPT for testing.

[yassine-krichen]

Ah, yeah, this can be confusing. Even if your repo is public, ChatGPT can’t directly “browse” arbitrary GitHub links. When it says it can review a repo, it usually means: you provide the files or code snippets directly in the chat, or use an integrated tool that gives it access.

Just sharing a GitHub link won’t work by itself. You can either copy-paste the relevant code here, or if your project is large, zip the files and share content in chunks.

You can also try using Copilot or a similar tool: ask it to write a fully detailed analysis and breakdown of your project. Then you feed that output to ChatGPT. If you want it to focus on something specific, just give it the exact files it needs to check and attach those, makes the review much smoother.

Basically, ChatGPT sees what you feed it; links alone don’t give it live access to GitHub repos.