Debugging GitHub Errors with AI: A Smarter Approach
Working with Git and GitHub is essential for modern developers, but error messages can sometimes be cryptic and difficult to resolve—especially for beginners. That’s where AI can step in as a reliable assistant to analyze issues and suggest fixes in real time.
The following example demonstrates how you can build a GitHub Debugging Agent using Alith AI with the llama-3.1-8b-instant model. The agent is configured to understand and troubleshoot Git and GitHub errors step by step.
The Setup:
import { Agent } from “alith”;
const githubDebugAgent = new Agent({
model: “llama-3.1-8b-instant”,
apiKey: “”,
baseUrl: “https://api.groq.com/openai/v1”,
preamble: “You are an expert in version control systems like Git and GitHub. Analyze error messages and provide accurate solutions step by step.”
});
async function suggestFix(errorMessage) {
const suggestion = await githubDebugAgent.prompt(errorMessage);
console.log(“Suggestion:”, suggestion);
}
// Example usage
const error = "error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge: ";
suggestFix(error);
- The program starts by importing the
Agentclass from Alith, which allows you to create an AI assistant. - A new agent is created and configured with details like the model to use, your API key, the API endpoint, and a preamble. The preamble tells the AI to act like a Git/GitHub expert who explains and fixes errors step by step.
- A function is defined that takes an error message, sends it to the AI agent, and then logs the suggestion it returns.Finally, an example Git error message is provided and passed into the function to demonstrate how the AI would respond with a possible fix.
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