How it works · the five-minute version

How CatWrangler works.

From sign-up to shipping in a few minutes. No Git, no setup, no version-control words to learn — you point your AI at CatWrangler and build.

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1Create your account

Sign up

Create your account, name your project, and pick the AI tool you already build with. Use what you love — Claude, ChatGPT (Codex), or Kimi.

The CatWrangler sign-up screen: create an account and name your project.
ClaudeChatGPT (Codex)Kimi
2One private link

Get your project link

You get one link, unique to your company and project. That link is your private CatWrangler — the one thing you hand to your AI.

Your private project link

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private to you ✦

3Plug in and go

Connect your AI

Install the CatWrangler plugin in your AI tool, then paste your project link and say “set yourself up here.”

The plugin connects your AI to your project — it pulls down everything it needs to talk to your CatWrangler. Nothing else to configure.

A terminal session connecting to the project through the CatWrangler plugin after the link is pasted.
4Plain language

Build — in whatever app you love

Keep working exactly how you already do. Describe what you want in plain language; your AI builds it.

Underneath, CatWrangler runs real version control for you — catching conflicts, keeping the why behind every change, never overwriting your work. You never see any of it.

No PRs, no Git — CatWrangler versions and manages your source behind the scenes.

Kimi Code connected to a CatWrangler project, coming up to speed.
Kimi
Building with ChatGPT (Codex).
ChatGPT (Codex)
Building with the Claude app.
Claude
5The payoff

Watch it come together

Open your project’s website — on your laptop or your phone — to see everything your AIs built and decided: the live map, the decisions, the progress.

And talk to your code — ask the AI questions about your subsystems and decisions, anything you want.

one codebase, everything in agreement ✦

The project's live system map.
System Map
The decision graph of choices behind the code.
Decision Graph
A decision in plain, readable text.
Decisions
The subsystem dashboard and progress view.
Dashboard

Already have code?

Bring in your existing repo.

At sign-up, choose “Bring in existing code.” Point CatWrangler at your repo — one shot. It brings your code in and, where it can, captures the decisions already baked into it, so your AIs start with context, not a blank slate. (And you can take it back out in one shot too — no lock-in.) From there, steps 2–5 are identical.

Private beta — come early

Point your AI at CatWrangler and build.

From sign-up to shipping in a few minutes — no Git, no setup, nothing to learn.

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