RepoLanternRepoLantern documentation
Everything you can do with RepoLantern, as short step-by-step instructions. You don't need a GitHub account.
Start here
- Set up your AI provider: get the key or credentials for the provider you want to use (Gemini, Vertex AI, Claude, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Groq, DeepSeek, Mistral, Together AI, Ollama Cloud, AWS Bedrock or Microsoft Foundry).
- Make your first guide: repository, model, review, estimate, approve.
- Read and use your guide: depth levels, evidence, the score, questions, exports.
Not sure yet? See a real guide: a complete guide RepoLantern wrote, unedited, with no sign-in.
Every topic
| Topic | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Set up your AI provider | Keys and credentials for every provider, web search and private repositories |
| Make your first guide | Every step and every option on the way to a guide |
| Read and use your guide | Overview to deep dive, evidence, grounding score, readiness, how it was made, questions, ratings, exports |
| Model limits, pauses and switching | Your model's limits, what happens when one runs out, switching model, fallback models |
| Costs and prices | Where prices come from, how cost is computed, keeping it low |
| Command line | Install with pipx, run any provider, outputs, exit codes, resume, common messages |
| Integrations | GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Docker, make, a score gate, publishing the guides |
| Connect an AI assistant | Access tokens for MCP and A2A clients |
| Your data | What is kept, deleting a guide, erasing everything |
| Troubleshooting | Common messages and what to do |
Three ways to use RepoLantern
- In the browser at repolantern.aelsha.com/app: sign in, and follow Make your first guide.
- On the command line:
pipx install aelsha-repolantern, thenrepolantern run <repository>with your key. See Command line, and Integrations for CI and Docker. - From an AI assistant (MCP or A2A), to read and search your guides. See Connect an AI assistant.