Bring your project in
- Open it. Use File → Open Folder, or choose Understand a codebase on the welcome screen and paste a GitHub link or a folder path.
- Let LoWisa make a sandbox copy. Before changing an existing project, LoWisa can create a protected sandbox copy, so your original stays untouched while you learn and experiment.
- Look at the map. Project map shows how the project is wired: the subsystems LoWisa detected and the exact files that prove each one.
- Pick how to learn it. Choose one of the ways below, or just press Start Tutor and say what you want to understand.
Ways to learn a project
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| System Immersion | A guided walkthrough of what the project does, how it is organised, its entry points and how data flows. Guide |
| Audit my AI app | A ten-area professional audit of your app (security, data, scaling, releases) with real findings, then hands-on training until each verdict flips to Ready. Guide |
| 25 ownership areas | The 25 engineering areas across 7 categories that decide whether software survives, from version control to backups |
| Solo Round | The tutor breaks one real thing in your project. Can you fix it without AI? |
| Connect a live project | Point LoWisa at work you build elsewhere. It reads and explains, and never writes to it |
| Ship it live | Put a finished project on the internet at a real address, with the tutor teaching the deploy |
Keeping track of change
What has changed explains every run of work in order and how much of it you can already account for. Have work reviewed gives an independent read of a run of work, with findings you can act on. Both are useful when an AI assistant has been editing the project faster than you can follow.
For a method that works with or without LoWisa, read How to understand AI-generated code and How to learn an existing codebase.
Frequently asked questions
Does LoWisa change my real project?
For an existing project, LoWisa can work from a protected sandbox copy, so the original stays untouched while you learn and experiment.
Can LoWisa teach me a GitHub repository?
Yes. Choose Understand a codebase on the welcome screen and paste a GitHub link or a folder path. The tutor maps it, draws it, runs it, and hands you a verified first change.
Can LoWisa audit code an AI wrote for me?
Yes. Audit my AI app runs a ten-area professional audit on your app with real findings, then trains you until each verdict flips to Ready.