4 resources from GitHub Docs we point founders to, and the questions each answers.
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Why we picked it
A contract clause is your legal safeguard, but the practical one is making sure the repo lives under an account you control from day one. This is GitHub's own guide to creating an organization, a shared account that owns the repositories while your freelancer joins as a member with access you can revoke. Do this before the first commit and you never have to chase code that sits in a contractor's personal account.
An organization is a shared account that owns the repositories, separate from any individual's personal account, so the code belongs to the org and not to your freelancer.
You add the freelancer as a member with a specific role and can remove that access the moment the engagement ends.
Organizations are free to start on GitHub, so there is no reason to let a contractor host your codebase under their own login.
Why we picked it
An official, plain checklist for the skill your short answer insists on: reading and testing what the AI writes before you trust it. It names the specific things to look for, from invented dependencies to logic that looks right but is subtly wrong. Keep it open the first several times you accept AI code into your app.
Why we picked it
If a developer already built your code in their own account, this is the official step-by-step for moving the repository to your account or organization. It also confirms the ownership mechanics: the new owner controls the repo, and the old owner drops to collaborator. Bookmark it for the handover moment.
Why we picked it
This is a ready made, minimal workflow you can adopt as is on your first hire: branch, open a pull request, review, merge, deploy, delete the branch. It is about the smallest real process that still gives you review and a clean history. Copy it verbatim as your two or three rules rather than inventing your own.
