GitHub

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The GitHub integration gives the Agent read-only access to a repository of your choice. The Agent 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, the Agent can answer 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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Configuration and Setup

To connect GitHub:

1. Click your workspace name in the top-left.
2. Go to Settings → Integrations → GitHub.
3. Click Connect.
4. Authorize the Lane GitHub App and select which repositories it can access on GitHub.
5. Back in Lane, pick a default Organization, Repository, and Branch — this becomes the Agent’s scope.

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 the Agent can do

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

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Using the integration

You don’t need to switch any mode on. Once connected, just ask the Agent 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.”

The Agent searches 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. The Agent works within the repo and branch you’ve set as default. You can change the default any time.
• Read-only. Lane will never open a PR, create an issue, or commit. 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 will pause 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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Plan gating

Available on all plans.

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FAQs

Q: Can the Agent 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: The Agent works against a single default repo and branch. Switch the default in Settings any time 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: What if I change branches frequently?
A: Update the default branch in Settings → Integrations → GitHub when you want the Agent to look somewhere new. Q: Who can see what the Agent finds in the repo?
A: Only people in your Lane workspace who have access to the chat or Plan where the code was referenced. The Agent doesn’t expose the repo more broadly than it already is in Lane.