Set up GitHub

GitHub is where the platform’s plugins are published, where your self-host deployment connects, and where your own plugins live. A free account covers all of it.

What you need

• A GitHub account.
• The gh CLI (optional but recommended), authenticated: gh auth login.

For the plugins

The Tapestry marketplace is the public repo Lizo-RoadTown/tapestry. /plugin marketplace add Lizo-RoadTown/tapestry resolves it — no special access, it’s public. (See Set up Claude Code.)

For your own deployment

If you self-host, Render and Vercel connect to a GitHub repo that holds your backend and frontend. You authorize each service to read that repo, and they build from it. See Set up Render and Set up Vercel.

For your own plugins

When a project’s shape calls for its own plugin, you generate one with tapestry make-plugin and publish it to a repo under your account as your marketplace:

gh repo create <your-github>/<plugin-name> --public --source . --push

Then in Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add <your-github>/<plugin-name>

See Create your own plugin.