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How do you let ChatGPT Web inspect local code without giving it access to your whole machine?

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I've been thinking about the trade-off between giving AI coding tools enough local access to be useful and giving them too much access. For example, if I want ChatGPT Web to review my actual working tree, including uncommitted changes, the obvious options aren't great: upload files manually, push e…

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  1. 2026-08-21 07:11 · r/artificial
    How do you let ChatGPT Web inspect local code without giving it access to your whole machine?

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