DEDUPEDWho it is forPlatform engineer whose agents each edit a few files in a large monorepo and waste time on full clones
The problemCloning the whole repository for a task that touches three files makes each agent slow to start.
The outcomeThe agent fetches only the requested paths and can still land its change through the server.
What you need first
- Linux or macOS
- Go 1.26, a C toolchain, Meson and Ninja (the build compiles a bundled Git)
- No paid keys needed; conflict resolution can use any LLM provider, a deterministic tool, or none
- SQLite or PostgreSQL plus object storage (file, S3, GCS, Azure) only if you move the repo state off local Git
Steps
- Build with: make build
- Run ./_build/bin/graft to list the CLI commands
- Use graft sparse or graft clone with the paths <paths> the task needs
- Land the resulting change and confirm it appears in the changeset log
Prompt for your agent
Using feder-cr/git-ai, run ./_build/bin/graft to find the sparse and clone commands, then materialize only <paths> from <repo> and land one edit. Verify that unrelated directories were not downloaded.
Caveat. The README names graft clone and graft sparse but not their flags, so read the CLI help or docs before running them.
About git-ai
Version control built for coding agents instead of humans, so many agents can work on one codebase without stepping on each other. View feder-cr/git-ai on GitHub.
More with git-ai
- Give every coding agent its own token and branch limits Use per-agent tokens, an RPC allowlist and branch policies so each agent can only do what you allow.
- Reproduce the 50-agent landing benchmark on your own machine Run the repo's acceptance script to compare classic retry-based landing with batched compare-and-swap landing.
- Watch many agents land changes on one branch in minutes Build gitai and run the bundled quickstart to see agents land on a shared branch with no merge queue.
- Stand up a shared server for a fleet of coding agents Run your own gitai server so each agent gets its own token and lands onto shared branches.
- Resolve conflicting agent changes automatically with a chosen resolver Plug in a deterministic tool or any LLM provider so conflicting lands resolve instead of bouncing back to the agent.
- Test the branch tip after landing and revert the culprit Run graft-verify so a failing tip is bisected and the change that broke it is reverted without a human.
- Follow the live changeset log with a monitoring agent Have an agent watch every accepted update and report what matters to each component, including in Slack.
- Move repo state into PostgreSQL and object storage for scale-out Switch a gitai repo to a database plus object storage so any server node can be added or rebuilt.
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