Connecting GitHub lets your assistant reach into your issues, pull requests, and repository search — so you can ask about your codebase in plain language instead of digging through tabs. Once it's wired up, your assistant (powered by OpenClaw under the hood) looks things up with your own GitHub access and answers you wherever you're chatting.
Issues, pull requests, and repository search.
- Authentication
- Sign in with GitHub
- Best for
- Asking about issues and pull requests
What you'll need
- A GitHub account you can sign in to in a browser. If your work lives in an organization, sign in with the account that has access to it.
- A running assistant. Connectors are set up per-assistant, and the sign-in happens inside that assistant's private VM, so it needs to be awake.
Connect it
- Open the assistant you want to give access to, and make sure it's running.
- Click Connectors in the sidebar to open the catalog.
- Search for GitHub in the box at the top to filter the list.
- Click Authorize on the GitHub card.
- Your browser opens GitHub's own consent screen — GitHub's page, on GitHub's site.
- Sign in if you aren't already, review what's being requested, and approve it.
- Switch back to HolaClaw. The connector verifies the connection and moves to Active.
For the full generic walkthrough and troubleshooting, see Connect a service.
Try it
With GitHub connected, message your assistant:
- What are my open GitHub issues?
- Summarize the latest pull requests in my-repo
- Find issues that mention the login bug
If it stops working
If the GitHub connector shows Re-authorize, your sign-in has expired or you revoked it from GitHub's side. Click Re-authorize and approve again in the browser — nothing to reconfigure. For everything else, see the troubleshooting section in Connect a service.
A quick word on privacy
Your GitHub access token lives inside the assistant's private VM on your Mac — never on HolaClaw's servers, and we never see your password. Connectors are per-assistant, so authorizing GitHub here gives it to this assistant only. You can also revoke access anytime from GitHub's own authorized apps settings.
Next steps
Want the bigger picture on connectors? See What are connectors. And if GitHub won't cooperate, the HolaClaw Discord is a friendly place to ask.