Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about GIT-Pilot

Q: What is GIT-Pilot? A: GIT-Pilot is a GitHub automation and management tool that provides a comprehensive API wrapper for GitHub operations. It simplifies GitHub interactions through a FastMCP-based server, making it easy to manage repositories, pull requests, issues, and more.

Q: What are the key features of GIT-Pilot? A: Key features include secure token management, repository management, pull request operations, issue management, thread-safe operations, comprehensive error handling, detailed logging, and FastMCP server integration.

Q: What are the prerequisites for using GIT-Pilot? A: You need Python 3.12 or higher, a GitHub account, a GitHub Personal Access Token, and optionally, the FastMCP CLI.

Q: How do I install GIT-Pilot? A: First, clone the repository, then install uv if you haven’t already. Create and activate a virtual environment using uv venv and source .venv/bin/activate (or .venvScriptsactivate on Windows). Finally, install the package using uv pip install -e ..

Q: How do I configure GIT-Pilot? A: Configure the service through the Config class, where you can set parameters like TOKEN_TTL_HOURS, MAX_STORED_TOKENS, CLEANUP_INTERVAL_SECONDS, MAX_RETRIES, RETRY_DELAY_SECONDS, MAX_RESULTS_PER_PAGE, and ENCRYPTION_KEY.

Q: How does GIT-Pilot handle security? A: GIT-Pilot uses Fernet encryption for tokens at rest, automatic token expiration and cleanup, rate limit protection with retries, input validation, and comprehensive error handling.

Q: What kind of error handling does GIT-Pilot provide? A: GIT-Pilot offers comprehensive error handling for authentication failures, API errors, rate limits, invalid inputs, resource conflicts, network issues, token validation, and file operations.

Q: How does GIT-Pilot handle rate limiting? A: GIT-Pilot includes built-in rate limit handling with automatic retry on rate limit, configurable retry attempts, delay between retries, rate limit status logging, and exponential backoff.

Q: What kind of logging does GIT-Pilot provide? A: GIT-Pilot provides detailed logging with timestamps, log levels, function names, line numbers, error details, stack traces, rate limit information, and token operations.

Q: How can I contribute to GIT-Pilot? A; Fork the repository, create a feature branch, commit your changes, push to the branch, and create a Pull Request.

Q: Under what license is GIT-Pilot released? A: This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Q: Where can I find support for GIT-Pilot? A: You can report bugs via GitHub Issues, find documentation on the Wiki, and engage with the community in Discussions.

Q: How do I stay updated with the latest changes to GIT-Pilot? A: Follow our release notes, subscribe to our newsletter, and star the repository for updates.

Q: How does GIT-Pilot integrate with UBOS? A: GIT-Pilot is available on the UBOS Asset Marketplace, allowing it to seamlessly integrate with the UBOS full-stack AI Agent development platform. This integration enables AI-powered automation of GitHub management, such as AI-driven code review and intelligent issue resolution.