Settings panels and what they change

Settings has eight panels in three groups.

Accounts and identities

Accounts connect GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Cursor Origin, and choose which account each remote authenticates as. They drive clone, fetch, pull, push, and pull-request API calls — never who you commit as. Connect by CLI (gh, glab, origin), a pasted token, or native OAuth. Tokens GitLane owns live in your OS keychain; Origin uses the CLI session only.

Two sign-out verbs do different things: provider sign-out deletes GitLane's keychain token; forget saved HTTPS credential clears what your own git credential helper stored.

Identities are name, email, and an optional GPG/SSH signing key, applied to the open repository's local git config. "This computer" is the fallback: your global git config. Full explanation: Accounts and identities.

AI Agents, terminal agents, and prompts

AI Agents answer requests inside GitLane — Draft / Improve a commit message, AI actions, and conflict resolve — over the Agent Client Protocol. There is no API key to paste. Drag to reorder; the first enabled agent is the default. Connect launches the adapter once and reads back models and effort presets. Disabled agents stay configured but drop out of the pickers.

Terminal Agents are the older surface: a command typed into the integrated terminal, which is what review notes hand their instruction to. GitLane probes your PATH on every load and greys out agents whose binary isn't there.

Prompts are the instructions in-app agents follow. The commit-message instruction is always on (Draft, Improve, and Commit with agent share it). AI-action commands are a list you can reorder, disable, or extend. The agent reads the repository itself, so GitLane never ships a diff over IPC.

Appearance, shortcuts, About

Appearance — Dark / Light / System, nine accent colours, Comfortable or Compact graph density, commit icons (avatars, co-author badges, AI/bot marks), and background fetch every 5, 15, 30, or 60 minutes. Auto-fetch runs only while GitLane is visible, online, and idle.

Keyboard Shortcuts is a read-only list for this platform. Bindings are not customisable yet. See Keyboard shortcuts.

About shows version and build, plus two updater controls: check daily, and receive beta updates. Source builds say so here and disable the updater. See Updates and release channels.

Good to know

GitLane never auto-approves a write. Reading, searching, thinking, and listing pass automatically; a shell call is allowed only when it is a read-only git command with nothing chained into it; network fetches are refused. Stop ends the adapter process and everything it started.

Full walkthrough: Settings.

Installers: Download GitLane.