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Setup guide: how to install RepoWise

Two commands. Five minutes. Every AI tool you use ends up fluent in your codebase.

June 20263 min readRepoWise Team

What you'll have in 5 minutes

AI tools that know your code

Architecture, conventions, and the reasoning behind your decisions.

Real answers, not guesses

Grounded in your actual code, not generic patterns from training data.

Always current

Context refreshes automatically as your code changes. Zero upkeep.

What you need

A git repo (GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket)Node.js installed5 minutes

That is the full list.


1Install

Open your terminal and run:

terminal
$npm install -g repowise

2Run setup

From your project directory:

terminal
$repowise create

The setup walks you through four short steps:

1

Sign in

One click in your browser. No long forms.

2

Pick your AI tools

Choose any combination of Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Cline, Codex, Roo Code, Gemini CLI, Warp, JetBrains Junie, Google Jules, Amp, and Devin.

3

Answer a few questions (optional)

A short interview about your architecture, conventions, and the decisions that are not obvious from the code. Skip it if you want, run it later from the dashboard.

4

Grab a coffee

RepoWise learns your code in the background. The first scan finishes in a few minutes for most repos.

3Open your AI tool and ask

That is it. Open Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or any other tool you picked, and ask:

What does this repo do?

Where is authentication handled?

Why did we choose Postgres over MongoDB?

What is the convention for error handling in this codebase?

Every answer is grounded in your code and the reasoning behind it. No more generic suggestions. No more invented imports.


It stays current, forever

You run setup once per repo. After that, your context refreshes automatically as your code changes. Switch from Cursor to Claude Code next month? Already configured. Add a new tool? Re-run setup in the repo and pick it.

You never need to think about this again.

For your teammates

When a teammate joins a repo that already has RepoWise set up, they run:

terminal
$repowise member

That is the full onboarding. Their AI tools instantly know everything the team has already captured. No onboarding doc to read. No senior engineer to shadow for a week.


Install now

Two commands. Every AI tool, fluent in your codebase:

terminal
$npm install -g repowise
$repowise create

Your codebase has context your AI has never seen

Architecture decisions made in Slack. Business rules one engineer knows. Conventions the team agreed on but never wrote down. RepoWise captures it and keeps every AI tool in sync.

Zero code retention. Processed in memory. Discarded immediately.