Quick Start Guide

Get started with Jolt quickly by learning how to set up your account, connect Git providers, and send your first chat.

Getting started

Visit app.usejolt.ai to sign up or log in. You can authenticate with Google or a one-time passcode sent to your email.

Use the same account between Jolt's web app and IDE extension. Follow these steps to install the extension. Learn more what you need to use Jolt here.

Connecting your Git provider

For the purpose of this Quick Start Guide, we can chat with a public repository on the Jolt web app, and skip connecting a Git provider.

To use Jolt on private repositories, you'll need to connect a Git provider. Jolt works with GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, and Azure DevOps, and supports multiple providers per account. Go to the settings page to connect your Git provider.

Your first chat with Jolt

Let's start by asking Jolt a question, like "What does this project do?" or "What libraries and frameworks does this project use?"

To start a new chat session go to the new page on the web app. Then:

  1. Open on the Repo Selector dropdown and click "Select a public repo"
  2. Paste in the url of public repo. For this example, we are using https://github.com/FormidableLabs/victory-native-xl.
  3. Click the green check mark or press Enter
  4. Confirm the main branch is selected, or pick a different branch
  5. Enter your prompt into the input
  6. Click the Send Chat → button

Sending messages in the IDE extension

If you are using the IDE extension, select the New Chat button from the Jolt side panel. Jolt will automatically use the repository and branch open in your workspace. If the workspace contains multiple repos, Jolt will ask you to select one. Follow these instructions to install the IDE extension.

After submitting your prompt, you will receive your first Jolt response ⚡

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