Core Features

Minovative Mind provides powerful tools to enhance your development process:

• Intelligent Code Analysis: Get AI-driven feedback on individual files. Understand potential bugs, security risks, maintainability issues, and receive actionable suggestions for improvement, rated RED, YELLOW, or GREEN.
• Interactive Repository Mapping: Visualize your project's file and folder structure. Navigate large codebases with ease, understand dependencies, and quickly locate files, powered by React Flow.
• Context-Aware AI Chat: Discuss your codebase directly with a powerful AI. The chat incorporates your repository structure and relevant file content, allowing you to ask detailed questions about code, patterns, or project specifics. Analyze Open Pull Requests and Issues within the chat context.
• Persistent Insights: Your code analysis results and chat sessions are saved to your profile, allowing you to track progress, revisit past discussions, and maintain a history of your code explorations.
• Deep GitHub Integration: Securely connect your GitHub account to seamlessly access your public and private repositories, browse files, view commits, and interact with PRs and Issues directly within the application.
• AI Branching Strategy: Easily view existing branches and, with appropriate permissions, create a dedicated ai-assist-<repo-name> branch. Use this branch for AI-suggested code changes or experiments without impacting your main development lines.

How to Leverage for Best Results

Maximize your productivity and code quality by incorporating these practices:

• Regular Analysis: Use the code analysis feature frequently on files you are actively working on or those flagged for refactoring. Don't just aim for GREEN; understand the YELLOW warnings and RED errors.
• Map Exploration: Before diving into new parts of a codebase, spend some time exploring the repository map. This helps build a mental model of the project structure and file relationships.
• Contextual Chat: When stuck on a problem or trying to understand a complex piece of logic, use the AI chat. Frame your questions clearly and provide specific file paths for better AI context.
• PR/Issue Analysis: Before reviewing a large Pull Request or starting work on a complex Issue, have the AI analyze it in chat. This can give you a quick overview of the changes or potential challenges.
• Use the AI Branch: For implementing AI-suggested code changes, switch to your dedicated ai-assist-<repo-name> branch. This allows you to test the suggestions in isolation before potentially merging back to your main branch. Commands like git checkout and git merge will be your friends!
• Always Verify & Test: AI suggestions and analysis are powerful tools, but they are not infallible. Always critically review and thoroughly test any AI-generated code or recommended changes before integrating them into your production code. Your expertise is crucial!

Collaboration & Workflow

Minovative Mind can also enhance team collaboration:

• Use the repo map and AI chat during onboarding to help new team members understand the project structure quickly.
• Analyze Pull Requests together using the AI chat to get an objective overview of potential issues.
• Discuss complex issues with the AI to explore different approaches before team meetings.
• Share analysis results for specific files to highlight areas needing attention during code reviews.

Security & Privacy Considerations

We understand the sensitivity of your codebase. Here's what you need to know:

• Secure Integration: We use standard GitHub OAuth. Your GitHub Personal Access Token is handled securely via HTTP-only cookies and never stored in our database or your browser's local storage. All GitHub API calls are proxied through our backend.
• Minimal Permissions: We request only the necessary repo scope for your GitHub PAT, required for accessing private repositories and creating the AI assist branch.
• Data Processing: Your code content from selected files is sent to Google Gemini AI for analysis and chat context, but subject to size limits. This data is processed according to Google's privacy policies.
• No AI Model Training: Your code and interactions with the AI chat are not used to train our AI models.
• Your Data Control: You can delete your tracked repositories and associated chat.
• User Account Security: Maintaining the security of your GitHub account itself (strong passwords, 2FA) is paramount.

For full details, please see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

Stay Updated & Contribute

We will be constantly evolving. Keep an eye on the Latest Updates page for new features and improvements. Your feedback is invaluable – use the feedback card or reach out directly!

Remember, Minovative Mind is designed to assist, not replace, the brilliance of human developers! Happy Coding! 😄