GitHub vs Plane for AI agents

As of 15 Oct 2026, both reach L4 · Runs on its own. Our agent met its first wall later with Plane: with Plane it got in and met its first wall at delete (blocked), with GitHub it went through every checkpoint.

GitHubL4Runs on its own

Find: Docs for agents: llms.txt, an OpenAPI and an MCP server; a docs page for each core task.
Access: No key needed, sign-up in a browser.
Use: 89% of the work.
Pay: Payment not tried: robots.txt keeps our agent off the payment page for now.
Leave: Leaves on its own: Nothing to cancel, made nothing to delete.

Through every checkpoint. Next: pay without a person

Runs on its own once it holds an existing identity: L4 · Runs on its own. Sign-up itself never got past a block on the signup page, so every later call ran on an existing account approved once through device-flow login. From there the work ran headless: REST, GraphQL, the gh CLI and the official MCP server created repos, commits, pull requests, reviews, issues and Actions runs, repeated across the core work. Codespaces refused our datacenter network, and the cloud coding agent needs a paid plan, so neither ran. Nothing to cancel on the free plan; account deletion is documented as web-only, so our agent revoked its grant and left the identity in place.

Driven 13 Oct 2026 · The drive and its evidence

PlaneL4Runs on its own

Find: Docs for agents: llms.txt, an OpenAPI and an MCP server; a docs page for each core task.
Access: MCP sign-in, sign-up in a browser.
Use: 90% of the work.
Pay: Payment not tried.
Leave: Cancels on its own: Deletes its data, but the login stays.

Got in; first wall at delete (blocked). Next: pay without a person

Gets in on its own, L4 · Runs on its own: it signs up, confirms the emailed code, and does the project work over the documented API and the official MCP server, with clean read-back on every call. It never reached account deletion: the workspace comes down in the UI, but the account itself only deactivates, and a later code login brings it back. Paying never finished either: the trial starts without a card, but the card step moves to Stripe's hosted portal, closed to our agent by robots.txt there.

Gets furtherDriven 15 Oct 2026 · The drive and its evidence

The two summaries: written and checked by our agents from each product's drive. How we write.

Where each one stops.

GitHubThrough every checkpoint

PlaneGot in; first wall at delete (blocked)

GitHub and Plane, checkpoint by checkpoint
Checkpoint	GitHub	Plane
Docs	Headless	Headless
Sign up	Not needed	In a browser
Verify	Not needed	In a browser
Key	In a browser	In a browser
First call	Headless	Headless
First action	Headless	Headless
Pay	Not tried	In a browser
Cancel	Not needed	In a browser
Delete	Blocked	Blocked

Headless or in a browser.

How our agent passed each checkpoint, and what each product offers an agent.

Checkpoints by route, API, MCP, CLI and SDK

Checkpoints by how our agent passed them, and what each product offers an agent
	GitHub	Plane
Headless (checkpoints)	3	3
In a browser (checkpoints)	1	5
Needs a human (checkpoints)	0	0
Blocked (checkpoints)	1	1
Not tested (checkpoints)	1	0
Work done	89% of the core	90% of the core
API	Yes	Yes
OpenAPI	Yes	Yes
MCP server	Yes (official)	Yes (official)
CLI	Yes	No
SDK	–	–
llms.txt	Yes	Yes

Bot checks, and where a person was needed.

Walls our agent met
	GitHub	Plane
Bot check	A challenge on the form stopped one way in (Email and password); it got in another way	None met
Wall type	A challenge on the form	No bot-check wall
First wall	None	Got in; first wall at delete (blocked)
A person helped	No	No

A challenge on the form: It asks every visitor to prove they are human. It stops every agent on any network, and a signature doesn't help: a person does this step, or the owner opens it for agents. Where we drive from.

Level and part scores.

GitHub and Plane: level and part scores, 0 to 100
	GitHub	Plane
Level	L4 · Runs on its own	L4 · Runs on its own
Holds up	59 of 100, fair	74 of 100, fair
Agent-ready setup	100 of 100, good	100 of 100, good
Standards	MCP spec of 28 Jul 2026 (current) · MCP discovery (current) · OpenAPI 3.0.3 (2 versions behind)	MCP spec of 25 Nov 2025 (1 version behind) · MCP discovery (behind) · MCP client registration (behind) · OpenAPI 3.1.0 (1 version behind) · A2A 0.3.0 (1 version behind)

Docs match is measured in an Audit. What the scores mean.

Pay, cancel and delete.

Paying, cancelling and deleting the account
	GitHub	Plane
Pay	Payment not tried	Payment not tried
Free plan or trial	Free plan	Trial, no card
Cancel	Not needed	In a browser
Delete the account	Blocked	Blocked

How each one takes payment

GitHub: Not tried yet: robots.txt keeps our agent off the payment page for now.
Plane: Not tried yet.

GitHub vs Plane: the short answers.

Which can an AI agent use, GitHub or Plane?

Both reach L4 · Runs on its own. Our agent met its first wall later with Plane: with Plane it got in and met its first wall at delete (blocked), with GitHub it went through every checkpoint. Driven 13 Oct 2026 (GitHub) and 15 Oct 2026 (Plane).

Can an AI agent sign up for GitHub and Plane on its own?

GitHub: not needed. Plane: yes, in a browser.

Do GitHub and Plane have an MCP server?

GitHub: yes (official). Plane: yes (official).

Can an AI agent delete its GitHub or Plane account?

GitHub: blocked. Plane: blocked.