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GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code. It uses Git software, providing the distributed version control of Git plus access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project.

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Installation and Setup

To access the GitHub API, you need a personal access token.

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Document Loader

There are two document loaders available for GitHub. See a usage example. 
from langchain_community.document_loaders import GitHubIssuesLoader, GithubFileLoader

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Tools/Toolkit

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GitHubToolkit

The GitHub toolkit contains tools that enable an LLM agent to interact with a GitHub repository. The toolkit is a wrapper for the PyGitHub library. 
from langchain_community.agent_toolkits.github.toolkit import GitHubToolkit
Learn more in the example notebook.

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GitHubAction

Tool for interacting with the GitHub API. 
from langchain_community.tools.github.tool import GitHubAction
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