Getting Started

Welcome to CodeLantern. CodeLantern gives your team a structured, AI-agent-driven development workflow (spec, design, plan, implement, review, consolidate, finalize) that runs against your own GitHub or Linear projects, right inside your coding agent.

You drive it with the cl-dev plugin. Skills show up as slash commands like /cl-dev:spec, and each one moves a piece of work along a clear path from idea to merged pull request.

Three steps to your first feature

Do these in order. The setup in step 1 is what the skills in step 3 depend on:

1. Connect your repository. In the CodeLantern portal, connect your organization to GitHub and register the repository you'll work in, along with its project-management and source-control mapping.
2. Install the plugin. Add the CodeLantern marketplace to your coding agent, install cl-dev, and run one-time setup (/cl-dev:init) in the repo.
3. Build your first feature. Take an idea from a spec'd issue all the way to a reviewed, merged pull request.

Before you begin, you'll need a CodeLantern account. If your team doesn't have one yet, contact CodeLantern to get set up.