Chota [cho-taa]: Small • Apprentice • Helper for trivial tasks

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About The Project

Chota is a developer that lives in your GitHub repo. You can assign it trivial coding tasks using Github Issues and it sends Pull Request with the solution. It is a young helper based on GPT-4 and GitHub Actions that can read your existing codebase, search the internet for research and question itself to avoid mistakes.

What's so special about it?

File-system Access: Chota uses Function Calling to access filesystem, search internet, open webpages and read them for research. Given a task, it can use these functions to read your existing codebase and search the internet for research.

Self-correction tricks: Current GPT models make mistakes when writing code. To solve that: Chota uses multi-agent techniques. It uses one prompt to generate the solution to your given task and then it uses a different prompt to verify the solution.

Git workflow: Chota sends solution in a PR, you can ask it to iterate on the task using the GitHub issue itself. Chota will update the PR with the new solution by looking at older context and the newly requested updates.

How to use it?

To use Chota, follow the below steps:

• Add the following workflow.yml file to the .github/workflows directory of your repo: ```yaml name: Chota Action

on: issues: types: [opened, edited] issue_comment: types: [created, edited]

jobs: branch-actions: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Checkout code uses: asadm/chota@3b117de11ebc90e7117895fbad57203c940cba05 with: GITHUBTOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUBTOKEN }} OPENAIAPIKEY: ${{ secrets.OPENAIAPIKEY }} SERPAPIKEY: ${{ secrets.SERPAPIKEY }} ```

• In your GitHub repo, go to Settings > Actions > General. Under Workflow Permissions, toggle on Read & write permissions.

• Chota uses OpenAI and SERP API, so you will need to get API keys from these providers. Here are the steps to sign up and add these keys to your GitHub repository secrets:

  1. Sign up on OpenAI and generate the API key.
  2. Sign up on SERP API. The API key can be found on the homepage once you log in.
  3. Go to your GitHub repository.
  4. In the upper-right corner, click Settings.
  5. In the left sidebar, click Secrets and variables > Actions.
  6. Click New repository secret.
  7. Enter a name for the secret in the Name field, such as OPENAI_API_KEY or SERP_API_KEY.
  8. Paste your API key into the Value field.
  9. Click Add secret to save.

• Once the above steps are done, you can create a new issue in your repository. Label it 'chota' and describe your task in the issue body.

License

MIT