01 — Overview
Engineering teams use GitHub for code and then build a spreadsheet to answer questions about it: which releases are waiting for review, which repos have stale branches, which services lack an owner. Connect GitHub with a GitHub App and describe the tool, and the Bench builds it on live repository data. The GitHub App uses short-lived tokens and is limited to the repositories you pick.
The same connection lets Chamfer sync each app’s source to a repository you own. Every change made in the builder, the visual editor or over Chamfer MCP becomes a commit, and you can require an approved pull request before a release reaches production. Engineers get their usual review flow for apps built by other teams, and the Chamfer Sign-off is recorded next to the merge. A release sign-off board or a stale-branch cleanup are typical first tools.
02 — What you can do
Live repo data
Query pull requests, issues, releases and workflow runs across the repos you choose.
App source in Git
Sync each Chamfer app to your own repository, with a commit for every change.
Review before release
Require an approved pull request before an app is promoted to production.
03 — FAQ
Before you connect GitHub
How does Chamfer authenticate to GitHub?
Can we keep Chamfer app code in our own repo?
Does GitHub Enterprise Server work?
Can apps trigger GitHub Actions?
04 — Pairs well with