It's Your Code

Real commits, real pull requests, in your own GitHub repository. Walk away whenever you like and take your code with you.

Operum is a desktop application. The work happens on your computer, against a real git repository, using your own AI subscription. There is no proprietary project format and no Operum-only build.

That repository lives in your own GitHub account, so you need a GitHub account to use Operum. Sign up for GitHub if you don't have one — it's free.

What the agents actually produce

  • Commits — ordinary git commits in your repository's history, on branches you can read, review and revert.
  • Pull requests — opened on your GitHub, reviewable by you or anyone else on your team, with the diff in front of you before anything merges.
  • Nothing hidden — no proprietary project format, no database you cannot read, no build that only Operum can reproduce.

You approve what ships

Nothing merges without you unless you decide otherwise. Auto-merge exists on the paid plans and is opt-in; with it off, every pull request waits for your review. See Workflow Board for how a task moves from architecture through to review.

Where your repository lives

The repository is yours, in your GitHub account — one you already have, or a new one you create. Operum pushes branches and opens pull requests in it. Nothing about your ownership changes.

Teams created with Quick Start

Quick Start is no longer offered for new teams. If your team was created with it, Operum created its repository in Operum's own GitHub organisation, so you won't see it in your own GitHub.

Download a zip of your code at any time, from Team Settings. There is no approval step and no waiting. Or ask support to move the repository to your GitHub account, which keeps the full history, issues and pull requests.

What the zip contains: your project's files as they stand — the working tree of a single branch. It does not include git history, so commits, branches and tags do not come with it. If you need the history, ask support to move the repository instead — or connect your own repository from the start, where the full history is yours from the first commit.

Each export also gives you a separate handover file listing your open issues, so your backlog can come with you. Moving the project to a repository you own? Follow When your project outgrows Quick Start.

If you stop using Operum

Nothing changes at all: the commits stay, the branches stay, the history stays, and the project builds exactly as it did — because it was never anything other than a normal codebase in your own account.

On a team created with Quick Start, download the zip and you have your code. With the zip you won't carry over commit history; the support-assisted move keeps it.

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