16 comments

  • diggan 2 days ago ago

    Is there any information you can get out of this that isn't already available in the GitHub.com UI? I tried asking things like "What could the most interesting information you can tell me about this repository?" but it seems like most of the data is already available in the UI in pretty much the same format, except you click a link to see it instead of writing a question and waiting for a reply.

    • eddywebs 2 days ago ago

      Same thoughts

      • aazo11 2 days ago ago

        We pull data from the GitHub API which includes data that that is not available from GitHub.com pages. Currently only PR, Issues, Commit and Star data is being loaded. You can also read more here https://medium.com/relta/github-assistant-49ae388ad758

        • aazo11 2 days ago ago

          There will new data from the graphql API added over time. Would love your feedback on which data you like to see added https://docs.github.com/en/graphql

          • diggan 2 days ago ago

            Maybe a better question: What questions could be answered with your service, that could not be answered with just cURL + Git + the GitHub API?

            • aazo11 2 days ago ago

              Great question! The purpose of github-assistant is to showcase the technologies that make it easy to build a tool/feature like this, not necessarily for it to be a stand-alone service. With dlt/Relta/LangGraph/assistant-ui we spin this up in about 10 days. For example:

              - The GitHub graphql API limits to 100 items to be queried at a time and has pretty opaque secondary rate limits. Building this with cURL would take effort. dlt handles all this complexity to set up a robust pipeline by providing a connector to the GitHub API. - Creating semantic layers manually from a relational dataset and leveraging it in a text-to-sql pipeline to prevent hallucinations (similar to those we highlighted in our Medium post) would take lots of manual effort, which Relta streamlines. - Creating a chat front-end with charts was made easy by assistant-ui

              Hope this makes sense.

  • bberenberg 2 days ago ago

    Pretty nifty, is Relta going to be OSS as well?

    • aazo11 2 days ago ago

      Yes in the future. We share the source code in both commercial and non-commercial engagements already. Drop me a line at amir [at] relta.dev if interested.

      • bberenberg 2 days ago ago

        I am building an AI Slack Moderator bot [0] as a side project. I was thinking that this could be a cool intermediate layer to allow a user to ask questions about moderation logs. However I am not ready to build this for now. Feel free to add me to an email list for people who want to know when you OSS it down the line.

        [0] - https://popsia.com

  • croemer 3 days ago ago

    Tried adding a repo I work on, import worked after failing first, but then the query result was that there was no data on top contributors.

    Put the video in the Readme!

    • aazo11 3 days ago ago

      Hi -- strange that didn't work. Overall, the semantic layer is designed to provide very tight guardrails and not hallucinate. You can see the agent suggest changes to the semantic layer if you give the produced answer a thumbs down.

      The idea is for the system to provide answers that have close to 100% accuracy, but make it a single click for developers to to improve the semantic layer.

    • aazo11 3 days ago ago

      Was able to reproduce and pushed an update. Thanks for calling this out.

    • sfarshid 3 days ago ago

      Just updated the README, thanks for the suggestion!

  • K0IN a day ago ago

    I really like the UI, great work, I have to dig through the code :) thanks for sharing!

  • eddywebs 2 days ago ago

    Can this help in explaining how the code works, its schematics or HLD of a given github repo ?

    • aazo11 2 days ago ago

      No this currently only answers questions from the GitHub graphql API.