Connections

GitHub, read-only.

For engineers, the real history of a codebase is in its pull requests, issues and commits, not its README. Firstweek connects read-only to the repositories you choose.

What Firstweek reads from GitHub

What shows up in the onboarding artifact

GitHub activity anchors the role and current-state parts of the artifact: what is being worked on, recent architectural decisions, and who owns which part of the codebase.

Read-only, and the raw content is never stored

Every connection, GitHub included, is read-only: Firstweek never writes to, changes or deletes anything in your tools. GitHub content is processed in memory and never stored. Only AI-generated summaries persist. A citation can quote up to 200 characters of a summary, and an admin can turn that off.

GitHub has no read-only permission for private repositories, so its consent screen asks for full access to them. Firstweek only reads.

Full detail: the security page covers data handling end to end, and the subprocessors list shows exactly which GitHub data is processed.

Other read-only connections: Slack · HubSpot · Salesforce · Confluence · Google Drive · Microsoft 365 · Jira

Run Firstweek on your next real hire. 30 days. Then we talk about whether it's worth keeping.

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