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One endpoint between your AI and all your connections, memory, skills

Lanes, an open-source, self-hostable MCP endpoint, lets users connect AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT to their mail, calendar, files, and notes through a single secure endpoint, with permissions defaulting to deny and an append-only log of all calls. The tool, requiring Bun 1.3.11+, supports profiles for work and personal separation and integrates with services including Gmail, Google Drive, Sheets, Docs, Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, and iCloud Mail and Calendar.

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One endpoint between your AI and all your connections, memory, skills
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One secure endpoint between your AI agents and all your connections, memory, skills, and secrets.

Connect your mail, calendar, files, and notes once, and add the memory and skills that only you have. Every agent you use — Claude, ChatGPT, and anything else that speaks MCP — reaches them through a single MCP endpoint that you own and run. Open source, self-hostable, no vendor sitting in the middle of your data.

Connect once, use everywhere. No per-agent integrations, no re-authorising every new tool.You decide what agents can touch. Permissions default to deny, and the runtime enforces them — it does not ask the model to behave.Work and personal never mix. Separate profiles, separate credentials, separate stores.Every call is recorded. An append-only log of what was reached, and what was refused.

A personal assistant on your phone. A deployment is a URL, so the claude.ai or ChatGPT app reaches your mail, calendar, and files from anywhere — "what's on tomorrow", "reply to Ana's thread", "find the invoice from March". This is the case that needsyour own cloud; everything below works on your machine.Inbox triage you sign off on. An agent searches, reads, labels, and composes — and saves a draft for you to send rather than sending it, until you decide otherwise.Coding agents that start from your context. Claude Code and Codex reach the same Linear issues, Notion pages, and notes you do, so a session begins from what you already know instead of an empty prompt.One set of notes behind every agent. What you have Claude Code write down, claude.ai reads back later — your accumulated context follows you between tools instead of being trapped in whichever one recorded it.Your own procedures, followed rather than guessed. How a standup update reads, where an invoice gets filed, who gets cc'd on a contract — written down once, and every agent you use follows the same one.

Needs Bun 1.3.11+. Nothing else — no account anywhere.

$ bun install -g @lanes-sh/link                # puts `lanes` on your PATH
$ lanes link profile add personal --target local
$ lanes link start --profile personal --target local
ok    serving http://127.0.0.1:7337/mcp
      profiles: personal

Then, in another shell:

$ lanes link mcp add --profile personal --target local                           # every agent installed; or name one: claude, codex
ok    registered lanes-link with Claude Code (user scope)
ok    registered lanes-link with Codex

Your agents can now use it. Memory, skills, and the vault hold your own material rather than an account, so switching them on costs nothing — one command each, no credentials, no browser. Mail and calendar are the next step. Full quickstart →

Manage it with
Connections
your external accounts — mail, calendar, files, issues lanes link connect
Memory
what you want remembered between sessions lanes link memory
Skills
your own procedures, handed to an agent as instructions lanes link skills
Vault
passwords and API keys, released only where you allow it lanes link vault

Memory and skills are plain Markdown files, so a text editor and an agent reach the same bytes. All four belong to one profile: what you add under work

is invisible under personal

.

One command per account. Run it again to add a second mailbox, a second calendar, a second anything.

Connect with
Gmail lanes link connect gmail
Google Drive lanes link connect drive
Google Sheets lanes link connect sheets
Google Docs lanes link connect docs
Google Calendar lanes link connect calendar
Google Tasks lanes link connect tasks
Google Contacts lanes link connect contacts
iCloud Mail lanes link connect icloud_mail
iCloud Calendar lanes link connect icloud_calendar
iCloud Contacts lanes link connect icloud_contacts
iCloud Drive lanes link connect icloud_drive
Notion lanes link connect notion
Linear lanes link connect linear
GitHub lanes link connect github
Slack lanes link connect slack
Gmail (IMAP, app password) lanes link connect gmail_imap
Gmail (Google MCP) lanes link connect gmail_mcp
Drive (Google MCP) lanes link connect drive_mcp

Three things worth knowing up front. lanes link connect icloud

sets up Mail, Calendar, and Contacts together, because one app-specific password covers all three. Google needs no OAuth client of your own: lanes link connect gmail

authorises against the one Lanes operates, so there is no Cloud console to visit — and where you would rather nothing expired, it also offers a service account key, or an app password over IMAP for a personal account. And GitHub and Slack take a token you paste rather than a browser sign-in, because neither will register a client for us; for Slack that means creating a Slack app once, which is the one console visit left here.

Full guide — what each one gives your agent, what it needs, and adding your own: ** docs/connect.md**.

The same code, the same config, in all three. Only the storage adapters change.

Local | Your own cloud | Lanes Cloud | | |---|---|---|---| | Runs on | your machine | your GCP project, on Cloud Run | managed for you | | Needs | Bun, nothing else | a Google Cloud billing account | — | | Set up with | lanes link start | lanes link deploy | |

coming soon****Local is the fastest way to start, and where most people stay. Your own cloud is what you want if you need to reach it from claude.ai, ChatGPT, or a phone — lanes link deploy

creates the project, the bucket, the service account, and the revision on its first run. Lanes Cloud is the managed version; because it is the same data model, a workspace you build today moves across rather than being rebuilt. Join the waitlist to hear when it opens.

— from nothing to a working endpointQuickstart— every provider, and what each one needsConnect your accounts— Claude Code, Codex, Claude Desktop, claude.ai, ChatGPTAdd it to your agent— five commands to a URLDeploy to your own cloud— architecture, configuration, the CLI, the security model, writing a provider, and the decision recordsFull reference

Lanes Link holds live credentials to your email and documents. The security model states its limits plainly rather than implying guarantees the code does not deliver — read it before you trust it with an account. To report a vulnerability, see SECURITY.md; please do not open a public issue.

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