How to Search a Codebase with Littlebird's GitHub Integration

Find the function by asking, not grepping.

You know the function exists. You just can't remember what it's called, which repo it's in, or who last touched it. So you start grepping -- three search syntaxes, two repos, and a scroll through results that match the string but not the meaning. The code's all there. Finding the right line is the tax.

Littlebird's already paying attention to your active window -- the file in your editor, the error in your terminal -- so the context is there before you ask. Connect GitHub and it searches the code for you, matching a function name, a pattern, or a string, not just the exact query you'd have to type.

How do I search my GitHub codebase with AI?

Ask Littlebird what you're looking for and it can search code across your GitHub repositories -- finding the function, pattern, or string wherever it lives, without switching to GitHub or guessing the exact search syntax. Because it also reads your active window, you can point at the error on your screen and ask where that code lives, instead of translating it into a query first.

Ask in plain terms, get the exact line

Littlebird can search code across your GitHub repositories, so the half-remembered detail -- a function name, a pattern, a string from the stack trace -- is enough to find the line. The search runs across your repos, not one file at a time.

See the whole file, once you've found it

A match is a starting point, not an answer. Littlebird can read the contents of any file in your repositories, so once the search lands it pulls the full file -- the function and everything around it -- right into Chat.

Narrow to the right repo first

When you're not sure which repo owns the code, Littlebird can search your repositories by name, topic, or keyword, so you find the right one and then search inside it. And when you need the history behind a line -- who changed it, and why -- it can search commits and pull a commit's details too. The full set of what Littlebird reads across GitHub is on the GitHub integration page.

The next time you can't place a function, don't grep four ways. Ask once.

Common questions

Do I need to connect GitHub for this to work?

Littlebird starts working on its own by paying attention to your active window, so you get value the moment you install it. But searching and reading across your repositories needs GitHub connected -- it takes a few seconds in Settings > Integrations.

Does Littlebird train on my code?

No. Littlebird never trains models on your data and never sells it. Your data is encrypted at rest and in transit, and you can delete it at any time.

Connect GitHub

Connect GitHub in Settings > Integrations, then ask where that function lives. See everything Littlebird does with GitHub on the GitHub integration page.

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