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What is autogit?

davidondrej/autogit — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-05-18

39JavaScriptAudience · developerComplexity · 2/5Setup · easy

In one sentence

A command line tool that automatically stages, commits, and pushes your code to GitHub every time an AI coding agent finishes a turn.

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    What it does
      Auto stage commit push
      Runs after agent turns
      Opt in per repo
    Tech stack
      Node.js
      JavaScript
      Git
    Use cases
      Ship agent changes automatically
      Block secrets before push
      Undo a bad auto commit
    Audience
      Developers
      AI agent users

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Automatically commit and push code after every Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or Pi agent turn without running git by hand.

USE CASE 2

Scan staged changes for API keys and secrets before they are ever pushed to GitHub.

USE CASE 3

Undo the last automatic commit locally and on the remote if an agent shipped something unwanted.

USE CASE 4

Keep multiple GitHub accounts and multi-agent workflows from stepping on each other in the same repo.

What is it built with?

Node.jsJavaScriptGitnpm

How does it compare?

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

So what is it?

autogit is a command-line tool that connects to AI coding agents (such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Pi) and automatically stages, commits, and pushes your code to GitHub the moment each agent turn finishes. Instead of running git commands manually after every change, autogit hooks into the agent's lifecycle so that when the agent stops, your work is already shipped. Setup takes two commands: install it globally with npm, run autogit setup once per machine, then run autogit on inside any repo where you want automatic pushing enabled. Only repos you explicitly opt into will ever be touched. From that point, each time your agent completes a task, autogit runs the full sequence: stage all changes, scan for secrets, commit, and push. Before pushing, autogit runs a built-in secrets scan that checks for API keys, private key blocks, environment files, and tokens. If it finds any, it blocks the push and unstages everything. Commit messages are also checked: if the prompt you gave your agent looks like it contains a secret, autogit falls back to a list of changed filenames rather than using the prompt as the commit subject. That way sensitive inputs never land in git history. If you push something you want to take back, autogit undo rewinds the last autogit commit both locally and on the remote, leaving the changes in your working tree so you can fix and re-push. It will not touch commits it did not create, and it will not operate on a remote that has since moved ahead of your local state. The tool handles several edge cases automatically. If the remote has moved ahead (because another machine pushed while you were working), autogit rebases and retries. If you have multiple GitHub accounts logged in, it asks which one to use and saves that setting per repo. If the repo is public on GitHub, it warns you that your agent prompts will appear in the commit history and asks for confirmation before enabling.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Install autogit globally and set it up so my Claude Code agent automatically pushes after every turn.
Prompt 2
Show me how to enable autogit only in this one repo without turning it on everywhere.
Prompt 3
Explain what autogit's secrets scan checks for before it lets a commit through.
Prompt 4
Walk me through using autogit undo to take back the last commit it made, both locally and on GitHub.
Prompt 5
Set up autogit so it asks which GitHub account to push with since I have more than one logged in.

Frequently asked questions

What is autogit?

A command line tool that automatically stages, commits, and pushes your code to GitHub every time an AI coding agent finishes a turn.

What language is autogit written in?

Mainly JavaScript. The stack also includes Node.js, JavaScript, Git.

How hard is autogit to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is autogit for?

Mainly developer.

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