GitKraken Desktop in 6 Minutes: Open a Repo, Run an Agent, Ship the Change

The fastest way to get up and running in GitKraken Desktop. In this tutorial, you'll open a repo, start an AI coding agent in its own worktree, review the agent's changes against your own work, and ship a pull request without leaving the app.

What you'll learn:

• How to open, clone, or create a repo on first launch
• The four UI sections you'll use every day: Commit Graph, Left Panel, Commit Panel, Toolbar
• How to start a New Agent Session (GitKraken Desktop handles the worktree and setup scripts for you)
• How to review what the agent changed using the WIP node and diff view
• How to commit with an AI-generated message, push, and open a PR by dragging one branch onto another
• How to clean up worktrees when a session is done

Chapters

0:00 Intro

0:24 Opening a repo

1:27 The four major UI sections

2:05 Starting your first agent session

3:25 Reviewing the agent's work

4:16 Commit, push, and open a PR

5:13 Continue learning

Want to go deeper on managing AI coding agents at scale? Take our free course, Git Control for AI Coding Workflows: https://learn.gitkraken.com/courses/git-control-for-ai-agents

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