---
title: "Send the signed-in person to GitHub's install page"
method: GET
path: "/github/install"
tags: ["github"]
---

# Send the signed-in person to GitHub's install page

`GET /github/install`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://app.nerdit.ai` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://app.nerdit.ai/github/install`
- Auth: none declared

Seal a state and send the browser to GitHub.

``target`` is the console's "Configure on GitHub" link (task 15
G1.2). It changes only the destination: the state is sealed exactly
as it is without one, so the return trip is the same callback under
the same session rule, and the ``update`` branch that already exists
does the re-mirroring. This route — never a link the console
assembles — is why configuring by hand no longer ends in
``state_invalid``: a hand-typed github.com configure page carries no
state, and ours does.

An installation the session's account does not hold answers 404 with
the same body an id that never existed gets. There is no oracle here
on purpose: installation ids are small global integers, and a
different answer for "somebody else's" would turn this route into a
way to ask whether an arbitrary id is installed anywhere.

## Query parameters

- `target` integer, nullable
- `flow` 'new', nullable
- `node` string, uuid, nullable
- `project` string, nullable

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `401`: Unauthorized
- `404`: Not Found
- `422`: Validation Error

---

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