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Connecting GitHub turns a finished lane into a reviewable, mergeable pull request inside ADE. Once connected, ADE opens PRs from your lanes, pulls in CI status and review comments, and merges — so you never leave for a browser tab.

Open PRs from a lane

Turn a lane’s branch into a GitHub PR in a click, with the title and body pre-filled.

CI, comments, merge

Read checks, reply to review threads, and merge — including auto-merge when the checks go green.

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Connect GitHub

Open Settings → Integrations → GitHub and authenticate. ADE stores the token in your machine’s encrypted credential store — it’s never written into project files or committed.
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Add a token

Authenticate in the GitHub section of Settings. A token that can read and write the repositories you work in is all ADE needs.
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Let ADE verify it

ADE probes access to the active repository and reports a single connection state (below). Hit Refresh after changing permissions on github.com to re-check immediately.

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Connection states

ADE reduces GitHub auth to one “is it usable here” signal, shown the same way in Settings and in the app banner.

Connected

The token is valid and can reach the active repository. PR creation, CI, comments, and merge are all available.

Limited access

The token authenticates, but can’t reach the active repo — common with fine-grained tokens missing that repository. Grant it access and refresh.

Not connected

No token, or the token can’t identify a user. PR features stay disabled until you connect.
Fine-grained tokens are only considered connected once a repository probe passes — it’s the one reliable check that the token can actually act on your repo. If Settings shows Limited access, add the active repository to the token’s allowed list.
GitHub is optional. ADE runs fine without it — you just won’t get in-app PRs until it’s connected. Everything else (lanes, chat, diffs, history) works regardless.

Pull requests

Create, review, and merge PRs once GitHub is connected.

Linear

Link issues to lanes and PRs, and let merges close them.