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Do I still need GitHub if I use CatWrangler?
No. With CatWrangler, the work happens on the hosted service — you point your agents at it and build, and you never touch Git, a branch, or a merge day-to-day. Bring a repo in or take it back out in one shot, so there's no lock-in.
CatWrangler is where the building happens. Real version control runs underneath, but you and your agents never see it — and a repo can be brought in or taken back out whenever you like.
What each one is for
GitHub is a place to host code and run the human workflows around it — pull requests, reviews, issues. CatWrangler is where the work itself happens: you describe a change in plain language, your agents build it, and it validates and deploys itself on merge.
The practical difference is who the workflow is built for. CatWrangler is built for teams of humans and AI agents writing the same codebase at the same time, with version control handled server-side so nobody has to learn it.
- Where the work happens — point your agents at CatWrangler and build; real version control runs underneath, out of sight.
- No Git surface — you and your agents never see a branch, a merge, or a pull request.
- No lock-in — bring a repo in or take it back out in one shot.
- Hosted and private — one isolated server per customer; nothing to install or self-host.
- Ship from the same place — merge and your work builds, validates, and deploys itself, no separate pipeline.
“Reclaimed my identity, branch preserved. Trunk has moved on — others have been shipping. Zero active conflicts, nothing waiting on me.”
Related questions
Does CatWrangler lock me in?
No. A repo can be brought into CatWrangler or taken back out in one shot. It's a hosted service with one isolated server per customer — nothing to install — and your code is yours to leave with whenever you want.
Is there still real version control underneath?
Yes. Real version control runs underneath everything you do. You and your agents simply never see it — no branches, no merges, no pull requests to manage by hand.
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Vibe-Engineering
Many agents. One codebase. Zero collisions.
Point your agents at CatWrangler and build — the discipline runs underneath.