Core Concepts
The mental model behind CodeLantern: the workflow your team runs, the knowledge base it reads and writes, and how it all fits together.
CodeLantern has three moving parts. Once you have a mental model of how they connect, the rest of the docs falls into place.
The three parts
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Your knowledge base and workflow skills. The skills (
spec,design-solution,implement,review-code, …) and the knowledge base are the CodeLantern layer. They're portable across coding agents and run either locally or in the cloud. Locally, you drive them interactively through thecl-devplugin. In the cloud, supported steps run through the optional GitHub Actions setup. See Cloud agent for prerequisites. -
The CodeLantern platform. The platform connects skills to your project-management and source-control services. Your admin configures the organization’s integrations, and each developer connects their personal accounts. See Integrations.
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Your provider integrations. This is where the work actually lives, split into two roles. Project management (PM) holds your issues and board. GitHub Projects, Linear, Jira Cloud, and Azure Boards are supported. Source control (SCM) holds your code and knowledge base, where changes land as branches and pull requests. GitHub and Azure Repos are supported today. See Repositories for configuring these roles.