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AI visibility

What AI assistants say about GitHub

We asked ChatGPT

“What are the best code hosting platforms? Which would you recommend and why?”

GitHub was the top recommendation

Also named:

GitLabBitbucketAzure ReposAWS CodeCommitGitea

“Short answer: the top code-hosting platforms today are GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket (Atlassian), Azure Repos, AWS CodeCommit, and several self‑hosted / community options (Gitea / Forgejo / Codeberg, SourceHut). Which one I’d recommend depends on your priorities - I’ll summarize strengths, tradeoffs, and a short recommendation for common situations below, and I can give a tailored pick if you tell me your team size, clou…”

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65/100 AI-readiness

github.com (official site, from public records) · can the AI crawlers read the site? Checked by code, not by a model.

AI assistants can read pages when answering (robots.txt):No answer-time fetcher is fully blocked; ChatGPT (OAI-SearchBot), Perplexity (PerplexityBot), Microsoft Copilot (Bingbot) are kept out of parts of the site.
AI models may train on the site (robots.txt):ByteDance (Bytespider) is blocked, so future versions of those models will not learn about the brand from its own pages. A deliberate choice for many brands: it does not stop assistants reading the site when answering, but what they know from memory then comes from other people's pages.
llms.txt for AI assistants:Present - AI tools get a curated summary of the site.
Homepage reachable:Loads over HTTPS.
Structured data (schema.org):No JSON-LD found - machines have to guess what the company is.
Title and description:Both present and descriptive.
Sitemap:No sitemap found - crawlers discover pages slower and may miss some.
One live question to one assistant, asked by PollyX on Oct 15, 2026 and asked again about once a month. Assistants answer differently every time, so this is a sample, not a score. The full check asks 12 buyer questions of nine assistants and records every page each one reads. How AI visibility is measured

Is GitHub the first recommendation, and how is it described?

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