JetBrains plugin to aggregate GitHub issues and PRs across organizations and repositories into a single IDE-native interface with LLM context extraction.

OrbiTrack brings your GitHub issues and pull requests into your JetBrains IDE. Instead of switching between browser tabs, you can browse, filter, comment on, and manage issues and PRs from multiple repositories — all from a single tool window.

• 🔍 Unified View — See issues and PRs from all your tracked repositories in one list
• 🔄 Incremental Sync — Fast delta updates via the GitHub Search API; full data on first load
• 💬 Inline Comments — Read, create, edit, and delete comments without leaving the IDE
• 🏷️ Rich Filtering — Filter by org, repo, type (issue/PR), and state (open/closed/merged)
• 📊 Grouping & Sorting — Group by org, repo, or type; sort by updated date, created date, or ID
• 🔀 PR Management — View mergeability status, merge PRs (merge/squash/rebase), and checkout branches
• 🤖 LLM Context — One-click copy of structured issue context to clipboard for use with AI assistants
• 📝 Markdown Rendering — Issue bodies and comments rendered as formatted HTML
• ⏱️ Timeline — View issue/PR history (labels, assignments, closures, renames, merges)
• 🆕 Create Issues — Open new GitHub issues directly from the IDE
• 🗂️ Cache-first — Previously loaded data appears instantly on IDE restart
• 🔐 Secure Auth — GitHub PAT stored in the IDE's native credential store

1. Open your JetBrains IDE (IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, PyCharm, etc.)
2. Go to Settings → Plugins → Marketplace
3. Search for OrbiTrack
4. Click Install and restart the IDE

1. Download the latest .zip from Releases
2. Go to Settings → Plugins → ⚙️ → Install Plugin from Disk…
3. Select the downloaded .zip file
4. Restart the IDE

1. Go to GitHub → Settings → Developer settings → Personal access tokens → Tokens (classic)
2. Click Generate new token (classic)
3. Select scopes:
   • repo — Full control of private repositories (or public_repo for public only)
   • read:org — Read organization membership
4. Copy the generated token

1. Go to Settings → Tools → OrbiTrack
2. Paste your GitHub Personal Access Token
3. Click Apply

1. Open a project that contains GitHub repositories
2. Click the OrbiTrack tab on the right side of the IDE (or via View → Tool Windows → OrbiTrack)
3. OrbiTrack will automatically detect GitHub repos from your project's .git/config and start syncing

The tool window is split into two panels:

• Left panel — Filterable list of issues and PRs across all tracked repos
• Right panel — Detail view for the selected item

Use the filter dropdowns to narrow by:

• Sort by Last Updated, Created Date, or ID (ascending/descending)
• Group by any combination of Org, Repo, and Type for hierarchical views

• Click + Add Comment to post a new comment
• Your own comments show Edit and Delete buttons
• Comments are rendered with full markdown support

For open PRs, OrbiTrack shows:

• ✅ Mergeability status (clean, conflicts, or checking)
• Branch info (head → base)
• Merge PR button with method chooser (merge commit, squash, rebase)
• Checkout Branch button to switch to the PR branch locally (supports fork PRs)

Click Copy LLM Context to copy a structured summary of the issue/PR to your clipboard, including:

• Title, repo, state, labels, author, assignees
• Full description
• All comments with authors and timestamps
• Metadata and GitHub URL

This is designed to be pasted into AI assistant conversations for context-aware help.

Click the + button in the toolbar to create a new GitHub issue:

• Select the target repository
• Enter title, body (markdown), labels, and assignees
• The issue is created via the GitHub API and immediately appears in your list

On project open, OrbiTrack scans for GitHub repositories by:

1. Reading .git/config from project content roots
2. Checking the project base directory
3. Scanning immediate subdirectories (supports monorepo/org-folder layouts)

Both HTTPS (https://github.com/org/repo.git) and SSH (git@github.com:org/repo.git) remotes are recognized.

• First load — Fetches issues and PRs from each tracked repo via the GitHub REST API
• Subsequent refreshes — Uses the GitHub Search API with updated:>timestamp for fast incremental updates
• Delta merge — New and updated items are merged into the cache; stale items are pruned by state
• Manual refresh — The toolbar Refresh button forces a full re-fetch

All data is cached in .idea/orbitrack-cache.json:

• Items, tracked repos, filter state, and last refresh timestamp are persisted
• On IDE restart, cached data is displayed immediately while a background sync runs
• Cache is updated automatically on every data change and at project close

• JDK 21+
• Gradle 9.4.1 (included via wrapper)

./gradlew buildPlugin

The plugin distribution (.zip) will be in build/distributions/.

./gradlew runIde

./gradlew test

src/main/kotlin/io/orbitrack/idea/
├── actions/          # Toolbar and context menu actions
│   ├── RefreshAction.kt
│   └── CreateIssueAction.kt
├── api/              # GitHub REST API client layer
│   ├── GitHubClient.kt          # Interface
│   ├── OkHttpGitHubClient.kt    # OkHttp implementation
│   └── GitHubModels.kt          # Serializable API response models
├── cache/            # Local JSON cache
│   └── OrbiCacheManager.kt
├── llm/              # LLM integration (v2 — reserved)
├── model/            # Core data models
│   └── OrbiItem.kt
├── services/         # IDE services
│   ├── OrbiTrackAppService.kt       # App-level: PAT storage, client factory
│   ├── OrbiTrackProjectService.kt   # Project-level: sync, data, actions
│   └── GitRepoDetector.kt           # Auto-detect GitHub repos
├── settings/         # Plugin settings UI
│   └── OrbiTrackConfigurable.kt
├── sync/             # Background sync engine (v2 — reserved)
└── ui/               # Tool window and panels
    ├── OrbiTrackToolWindowFactory.kt
    ├── OrbiTrackPanel.kt
    ├── FilterPanel.kt
    ├── ItemDetailPanel.kt
    ├── ItemCellRenderer.kt
    ├── ListEntry.kt
    └── MarkdownRenderer.kt

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 — see the LICENSE file for details.