You've heard "repo" all through the course. This reference lesson explains what it means and covers the basics of syncing your work with GitHub: backup, history, working across machines, and letting your agent handle the mechanics. We cover what a repo is, private versus public, and the three words that make up the whole cycle: commit, push, pull, with the prompt you'd use for each. Then the one rule everyone needs: keys, tokens, and passwords never go in a repo, and how a .gitignore file and a .env file handle that. If you want to go deeper, the pointer to Become the Builder is at the end.
One note on the finished example repos mentioned in the video: they're provided as .zip downloads rather than links to GitHub. Each one lives in the protected assets of its example's first lesson (Consultancies with AI, Content creation with AI, and AI Sales Pipeline). Unzip it and open it in any AI harness.
What's covered:
- What a repo is, and why any folder can be one
- Backup, history, and multi-machine sync
- Private vs public repos
- Commit, push, pull, and how to ask your agent to do each
- Keeping secrets out of the repo with .gitignore and .env
- Where to go deeper on Git if you're building apps