Getting Started With GitButler Agents

AI coding assistants have changed the way developers build software, but they’ve also introduced an unexpected challenge: keeping all that generated code organized. When you’re experimenting with ideas, generating multiple variations, or iterating rapidly, it’s easy for your workspace to become chaotic. Files get overwritten, edits get lost, and your commit history becomes a maze of half-completed attempts.

That’s why GitButler built a new way to integrate AI-powered code generation directly into your version control workflow. Differing from the previous iteration we’ve mentioned, this version integrates the agent experience directly into your workspace.

Instead of treating AI as something that happens outside your development process, GitButler turns code generation into a first-class part of your Git workflow.

Here’s why that matters.

Code Generation Needs Structure

The latest generation of AI coders, like Claude Code, can write, refactor, and test entire sections of your codebase. But that power comes with a catch: the more the AI produces, the harder it becomes to track what it changed, where it changed it, and how those changes impact the rest of your project.

Every developer who’s used AI for real work runs into the same problems:

• Where did this code come from?
• What did the tool change?
• How do I revert or compare versions?
• How do I run multiple experiments without destroying my main branch?

GitButler solves these challenges by blending code generation, branching, and commit tracking into a unified flow.

A Session For Every Branch

AI code generation no longer lives outside your workflow, it becomes part of it as an attached, clickable item right on the branch view.

Each AI session runs inside a branch, where changes are tracked, committed, and visible just like any human-written work. GitButler manages the context, the file modifications, the diffs, and even the commit messages. The AI effectively becomes a parallel developer, contributing clean, reviewable work in its own isolated environment.

You get:

• An automatic AI session per branch
• Automatic commit per prompt with context-driven commit messages
• The ability to run multiple AI tasks in parallel, without juggling directories or worktrees
• Drag-and-drop commits, files, and hunks into a session for instant context

This makes AI code generation manageable, safe, and auditable.

Goodbye Worktrees, Hello Clean AI Workflows

Many developers today use Git Worktree to separate AI experiments into multiple directories. It works, but it’s clunky. Managing multiple working copies, remembering which directory belongs to which experiment, switching between terminals… it’s a lot.

GitButler eliminates the need for any of that. You can spawn as many AI-driven branches as you want, all from the same workspace. No directory guessing. No copy-pasting.

Everything is cleanly tracked and mergeable.

Alleviating Cognitive Load

At its core, the code assistant is about reducing cognitive burden.

GitButler takes care of:

• Organizing your branches
• Tracking AI-driven changes
• Generating commit messages
• Maintaining context for the AI
• Managing multiple simultaneous tasks

So you can focus on building, not bookkeeping.

AI coding tools are powerful, but raw power without structure leads to chaos. GitButler brings discipline, clarity, and safety to the process.

The Right Place for Code Generation

AI has earned its seat at the development table, but it needs to sit in the right place. That place is alongside version control.

With GitButler’s integrated agents, currently leveraging Claude Code, developers can safely experiment, rapidly build, iterate intelligently, and keep everything organized. If you’re already using AI coding tools, this upgrade will fundamentally change how you work. And if you haven’t used AI for coding yet, GitButler gives you the safest, cleanest entry point possible.

Code generation doesn’t have to be chaotic. With GitButler, it becomes a seamless part of your development workflow.