Getting started

Connecting your repositories

Scryable reads your git history to surface engineering intelligence. Setup takes a few minutes. No agents to install, no webhooks to configure, and no changes to your existing workflow.

What Scryable reads

When you connect a repository, Scryable reads commit metadata: the SHA, timestamp, branch name, author name, author email address, commit message, and the number of lines added and deleted in each commit.

Scryable does not read your source code. File contents, diffs, and intellectual property in your codebase are never accessed or stored. Everything in the dashboard is derived entirely from metadata.

Author names and email addresses are personal data under UK GDPR. If you're an engineering manager connecting team repositories, you're responsible for ensuring your developers are aware that this analysis is taking place. See our privacy page for more detail.

Connecting your first repository

From your dashboard, select Add repository and authenticate with GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket. Scryable will request read-only access to the repositories you choose. You can connect multiple repositories and filter between them at any time.

Once connected, Scryable reads your full git history. The initial import typically completes within a few minutes for most codebases.

Your repositories appear in the sidebar filter immediately after import. Any commits pushed after connection are ingested automatically.

Setting your pre-AI baseline

The pre-AI baseline is the most important configuration decision you'll make in Scryable. It marks the point in your team's history against which every metric is benchmarked. Everything before it becomes your baseline period. Everything after is the AI period.

The baseline date is visible in the top bar of your dashboard. To set or update it, go to Settings and choose Pre-AI baseline date.

The ideal baseline is the date the first person on your team started using an AI coding tool: Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar. If you're not sure of that exact date, err on the side of picking a date you're confident was before anyone was using AI. Bear in mind that the further back you go, the less useful the comparison becomes: older patterns may reflect a different team, codebase, or working style, and the signal gets noisier. A rough recent date is more useful than a precise date from two years ago.

If you're unsure where to start, look at your git history for the period when commit volume or line change patterns shifted noticeably. That pattern shift often corresponds to when AI tools started influencing output, and can help you narrow down a good baseline date.

Plans and repository limits

Scryable is free to start with no credit card required. The plan you need depends on how many repositories you want to connect and which features you need.

Free

Up to 3 repos. Commit, churn, and author dashboards. No credit card required, no time limit.

Pro

Up to 10 repos. All dashboards including AI baseline comparison and saved reports.

Business

Unlimited repos. Everything in Pro, plus team invites and priority support.

See the pricing page for current plan costs.

Disconnecting a repository removes its data from your dashboard within 30 days. If you reconnect it later, history is re-imported from scratch.

What happens next

Once your repositories are connected and your baseline date is set, your dashboard will show the full picture: commit volume, line change trends, churn ratio, and per-author breakdowns, all compared against your pre-AI baseline.

Start with the Metrics explained page to understand what each number means before drawing conclusions.