01 — Git and GitHub setup on macOS I am the L L M wiki vision agent, working for Professor Chris Sweet at the Center for Research Computing at the University of Notre Dame. 02 — Preparing for llm-wiki Git is a distributed version control system designed to track changes in files over time. GitHub hosts repositories online, where we can collaborate and maintain a project wiki. We will create an account, look at optional Education benefits, and check or install Git on a Mac. If you already have a GitHub account, sign in and skip account creation. 03 — 1. Create a GitHub account Open github dot com and choose Sign up. You can use this account for personal projects and repositories shared through an organization. 04 — Create the account Enter an email address you control, choose a strong password, and select an available username. Review the remaining options and create the account. The personal details shown in this tutorial are illustrative replacements. 05 — Verify your email address GitHub sends a verification code to your email. Enter that code and continue. Complete this step privately; there is no need to show the code or your inbox. 06 — Sign in to GitHub Once GitHub confirms that the account has been created, sign in. Complete any additional account-security steps that GitHub requests. 07 — 2. Why Education matters for private wikis Why apply for GitHub Education? A new GitHub Free account lets you create private repositories, but it does not include wikis for those private repositories. For eligible educators, Education provides a route to a free Team plan for a teaching or research organization. That plan supports private wikis. If the repository owner already has a qualifying plan, you can skip this application. 08 — Start an Education application Choose Start an application. After verification, eligible educators can claim the Team benefit for the organization that will own the wiki. Submitting this form does not automatically upgrade your personal account. Check and claim the appropriate benefit before creating your private wiki. 09 — Choose your role and school Select the role that matches your real affiliation. This example follows the Teacher route. Confirm your school and verified school email address. Students should choose Student and follow that application process. 10 — Follow the location prompt In this application, GitHub asks for location access before enabling Continue. Review the request in your own browser. Once the form is ready, continue to the affiliation check. 11 — Provide proof of affiliation privately Follow GitHub's instructions for evidence of your current school affiliation. Submit your own genuine documents directly to GitHub. We have hidden the entire identity document in this tutorial. Continue through the remaining application steps. 12 — Application and approval are separate After submitting the application, wait for GitHub's review. If approved, check the Education portal for your available benefits and any further steps to claim them. These captures do not show an approval or an organization upgrade. 13 — The Wiki tab and private repositories Here is the Wiki tab in an existing private Install Demo repository, using a different account. This is not the result of the new Education application. For L L M wiki, use a private repository by default. A public repository also makes its wiki public, including the document summaries, project decisions, and other memory you save there. Only choose public if you understand those implications and intend to publish that information. 14 — 3. Open Terminal on your Mac Next, prepare Git on the Mac. In this version of Codex, open the chat menu, choose Open in, then Terminal. This opens Apple's Terminal application at the project folder. You can also open Terminal directly from macOS. 15 — Check whether Git is available Enter git, space, dash dash version. A version number means Git is already available, as it is on this Mac. Your version may differ. On a fresh Mac, this check may open Apple's command-line tools installer. 16 — If Git is missing: install the tools If Git is missing and the installer has not already opened, run the command shown here: xcode select, space, dash dash install. Follow Apple's dialog, review the license, and wait for completion. The Command Line Tools package includes Git; you do not need the full Xcode application. 17 — When the tools are already installed Here, the command reports that the command-line tools are already installed. That is expected on a configured Mac. There is no need to uninstall them or repeat installation. If you did install the tools, run git dash dash version again to check the result. 18 — Before your first commit Before making commits, check Git's author name and email settings. Configure them if needed, using your own name and a verified email, or your GitHub no-reply address. These settings label your commits; they do not sign you in to GitHub. 19 — Connect GitHub, then verify local wiki access Codex offers a GitHub plug-in that connects its GitHub tools to your account. Authorize it through the app. L L M wiki also uses local Git to synchronize the wiki, so ask Codex to verify access to your private wiki repository before continuing. If local Git still needs authentication, install GitHub CLI, then run g h auth login and allow Git authentication when prompted. These connection steps are not demonstrated in this recording. 20 — Continue with the llm-wiki tutorial We have covered account creation, the Education application, and checking or installing Git on macOS. Before using a private wiki, confirm your plan and command-line authentication. Then continue with our L L M wiki tutorial to install the marketplace and plug-in, create a project, initialize its wiki, ingest a document, and retrieve the saved information.