How to add an app development agency to your Google AI Studio app
In Google AI Studio’s Build mode, open your app’s settings, go to the GitHub tab, and create a new repository from the app. Then add @the-app-agency as a collaborator on GitHub.
Google itself points teams to a shared GitHub repository, because AI Studio has no real-time co-editing. If your app is still in Firebase Studio, move it to AI Studio first.
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Open the app in Build mode, open its settings, and choose the GitHub tab.
Screenshot: Google AI Studio Build mode, the app’s settings on the GitHub tab
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Click Sign in to GitHub, and install the Google AI Studio GitHub App when GitHub asks.
Screenshot: GitHub’s install screen for the Google AI Studio GitHub App
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Click Create GitHub repository. If it offers a choice, keep the repository private.
Screenshot: AI Studio’s GitHub tab with Create GitHub repository
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Click Stage and commit all changes to send the app’s code to the repository.
Screenshot: AI Studio’s GitHub tab with Stage and commit all changes
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On GitHub, open the new repository and go to Settings, then Collaborators (under Access in the sidebar), and click Add people.
Screenshot: a GitHub repository’s Settings, Collaborators page, with Add people
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Type the-app-agency, pick it, and confirm with Add the-app-agency to your repository. GitHub emails us the invitation, and we accept it.
Screenshot: GitHub’s Add people dialog with the-app-agency selected
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Already have a repository for the app? The same GitHub tab can link the app to an existing one instead.
If the repository belongs to a GitHub organization rather than your personal account, access works differently. Email hey@theappagency.com and we’ll walk you through it.
Coming from Firebase Studio
Firebase Studio closed to new workspaces on June 22, 2026, and shuts down on March 22, 2027, when its data is deleted. Google’s destinations for its projects are Google AI Studio and Antigravity.
In Firebase Studio, click Move now, then Prepare for AI Studio, then Move to Google AI Studio.
Screenshot: Firebase Studio’s Move now option and the Move to Google AI Studio step
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Once the app is in AI Studio, follow the GitHub steps above.
Why not share the app?
AI Studio apps are private by default. You can share an app with edit permission so someone else can change its code, but there’s no real-time co-editing, and the API calls a shared app makes count toward your limits. Google’s own advice is to collaborate through a shared GitHub repository instead.
Good to know
The sync runs both ways: what we commit to the repository comes back into your app.
Guides written for Firebase Studio are out of date. It no longer takes new workspaces.
Removing our access
When your audit is done, we remove ourselves where your platform lets us. You can remove us any time, too.
GitHub: in the repository’s Settings → Collaborators, remove the-app-agency. Your app stays linked to the repository.
Questions people ask
Can Google AI Studio sync with GitHub?
Yes. In Build mode, an app’s settings have a GitHub tab where you can create a new repository from the app or link one you already have. The sync runs both ways.
Is Firebase Studio shutting down?
Yes. It closed to new workspaces on June 22, 2026, and shuts down on March 22, 2027, when its data is deleted. Google points its users to Google AI Studio or Antigravity.
Can someone else edit my Google AI Studio app?
You can share an app with edit permission, but there’s no real-time co-editing, so Google suggests collaborating through a shared GitHub repository.
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