ChatGPT’s Deep Research Feature Can Now Connect With GitHub Repositories

With GitHub extension, the Deep Research agent can read and search the repo’s source code and pull requests.

Written by Akash Dutta, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 12 May 2025 16:25 IST

ChatGPT’s Deep Research Feature Can Now Connect With GitHub Repositories

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Deep Research in ChatGPT can conduct multi-step research on the user’s behalf

Highlights

Deep Research can create reports based on users’ repositories
The new feature is only available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro users
Users can enable GitHub after sending a prompt to Deep Research

ChatGPT is getting a new feature that will enable users to connect their GitHub repository with the chatbot. Announced last week, the new feature is part of the Deep Research agent. OpenAI said the new feature will allow the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to prepare comprehensive reports based on the user's and others' repositories. Currently, the San Francisco-based AI firm is rolling out the feature to only the paid subscribers of the platform. Notably, it can take up to five minutes before a newly created or edited repository begins showing up in the Deep Research GitHub connector.

GitHub Connector Is Now Part of Deep Research in ChatGPT

In a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), the official handle of OpenAI Developers announced the rollout of the new feature. ChatGPT's Deep Research with GitHub is available globally to Team users. All Plus and Pro subscribers will also get the feature, except those in the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK.

You can now connect GitHub repos to deep research in ChatGPT. 🐙

Ask a question and the deep research agent will read and search the repo's source code and PRs, returning a detailed report with citations. Hit deep research → GitHub to get started. pic.twitter.com/cdrQChfAU3
— OpenAI Developers (@OpenAIDevs) May 8, 2025

The account also shared a video demo of the feature. Based on that, the eligible users will first have to ask Deep Research a query. Then they will see a new GitHub connection button, tapping which will give the chatbot access to the user's, as well as any other third-party public repository.

“Ask a question and the deep research agent will read and search the repo's source code and PRs, returning a detailed report with citations,” OpenAI said.

In its support pages, the AI firm highlighted that the feature is currently in beta, and GitHub's terms and conditions will apply. When Deep Research connects to GitHub, it lets ChatGPT pull live data from repositories, including code, Readme files, and other documents. The chatbot can also analyse the data to provide insights about the content.

Notably, OpenAI highlights that if ChatGPT Plus and Pro users have kept the “Improve the model for everyone” setting on, the company will use the GitHub data to train its models. However, if the setting is turned off, the data will not be stored. The AI firm added that it does not store data from its business offerings, including Team, Enterprise, Edu, and its application programming interface (API).

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