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The GitHub integration gives Lane read-only access to a repository of your choice. Lane can search across the codebase, read specific files, and ground its answers in what’s actually in your code — useful when you need to know whether something already exists, how it works today, or want a Plan that reflects reality instead of memory. Lane only reads. It never opens issues, PRs, or commits.

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Overview

Once connected, you can ask Lane questions like:
  • “Is the new pricing tier already wired up in the codebase?”
  • “How does our webhook handler work today?”
  • “Find every place where we call the LemonSqueezy API.”
It’s especially useful for non-engineers who’d otherwise need to ping engineering for answers that live in the code, and for engineering-facing Plans that need to reflect what’s actually in the repo.

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Connect

  1. Go to Settings → Integrations → GitHub.
  2. Click Connect and authorize the Lane GitHub App, selecting which repositories it can access on GitHub.
  3. Back in Lane, pick a default Organization, Repository, and Branch — this becomes the scope Lane reads from.
The integration is installed at the GitHub organization level, so anyone in your Lane workspace can use it once a repo is selected.

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Permissions requested

The Lane GitHub App asks for two read-only permissions:
  • Contents: read — to read file contents.
  • Metadata: read — to list branches and find files.
No write access of any kind is requested.

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What Lane can do

With GitHub connected, Lane gains four read-only capabilities: GitHub’s code search is rate-limited (about 30 requests per minute), so Lane favors one broad search over many narrow ones to stay well within it.

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Using the integration

There’s no mode to switch on. Once connected, just ask Lane in any chat:
  • “Find where the priority score is calculated.”
  • “Does this codebase handle Linear webhooks?”
  • “Summarize what’s in src/auth/ and which files own session handling.”
Lane reads the default repo and branch you set in Settings. To work in a different branch or repo, change the default and re-ask.

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Limits and good to know

  • One repo at a time. Lane reads the repo and branch you’ve set as default; change it any time.
  • Read-only. Lane never opens a PR, creates an issue, or commits. For that, use Cursor — it can build from a Plan and open a PR for you.
  • GitHub rate limits apply. If you hit them, code search pauses briefly until the bucket refills.
  • Disconnecting. Disconnect from Settings → Integrations → GitHub, or remove the Lane GitHub App from your GitHub organization settings to revoke at the source.

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FAQs

Q: Can Lane write to my repo?
A: No. The integration is read-only — no commits, no PRs, no issues. Q: Can I connect more than one repository?
A: Lane reads a single default repo and branch. Switch the default in Settings whenever you need to look at a different repo. Q: Does it work on private repos?
A: Yes, as long as the Lane GitHub App has been granted access to that repo on GitHub. Q: Who can see what Lane finds in the repo?
A: Only people in your Lane workspace who have access to the chat or Plan where the code was referenced. Lane doesn’t expose the repo more broadly than it already is.