diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index dbee5206..56313116 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ smoke-test
 .vscode/**
 output/**
 .env
-plugins/**
 
 # Secrets and internal config files
 .secrets/*
diff --git a/plugins/extractors/tap-github--meltanolabs.lock b/plugins/extractors/tap-github--meltanolabs.lock
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..98544871
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/extractors/tap-github--meltanolabs.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+{
+  "plugin_type": "extractors",
+  "name": "tap-github",
+  "namespace": "tap_github",
+  "variant": "meltanolabs",
+  "label": "GitHub",
+  "docs": "https://hub.meltano.com/extractors/tap-github--meltanolabs",
+  "repo": "https://github.com/MeltanoLabs/tap-github",
+  "pip_url": "git+https://github.com/MeltanoLabs/tap-github.git",
+  "description": "Code hosting platform",
+  "logo_url": "https://hub.meltano.com/assets/logos/extractors/github.png",
+  "capabilities": [
+    "about",
+    "catalog",
+    "discover",
+    "schema-flattening",
+    "state",
+    "stream-maps"
+  ],
+  "settings_group_validation": [
+    [
+      "repositories"
+    ],
+    [
+      "organizations"
+    ],
+    [
+      "searches"
+    ],
+    [
+      "user_usernames"
+    ],
+    [
+      "user_ids"
+    ]
+  ],
+  "settings": [
+    {
+      "name": "additional_auth_tokens",
+      "kind": "array",
+      "label": "Additional Auth Tokens",
+      "description": "List of GitHub tokens to authenticate with. Streams will loop through them when hitting rate limits."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "auth_token",
+      "kind": "password",
+      "label": "Auth Token",
+      "description": "GitHub token to authenticate with."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "flattening_enabled",
+      "kind": "boolean",
+      "label": "Flattening Enabled",
+      "description": "'True' to enable schema flattening and automatically expand nested properties."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "flattening_max_depth",
+      "kind": "integer",
+      "label": "Flattening Max Depth",
+      "description": "The max depth to flatten schemas."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "metrics_log_level",
+      "kind": "string",
+      "label": "Metrics Log Level",
+      "description": "The log level of the API response metrics."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "organizations",
+      "kind": "array",
+      "label": "Organizations",
+      "description": "An array of strings containing the github organizations to be included"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "rate_limit_buffer",
+      "kind": "integer",
+      "label": "Rate Limit Buffer",
+      "description": "Add a buffer to avoid consuming all query points for the token at hand. Defaults to 1000."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "repositories",
+      "kind": "array",
+      "label": "Repositories",
+      "description": "An array of strings containing the github repos to be included"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "searches",
+      "kind": "array",
+      "label": "Searches",
+      "description": "An array of search descriptor objects with the following properties. \"name\" - a human readable name for the search query. \"query\" -  a github search string (generally the same as would come after ?q= in the URL)"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "skip_parent_streams",
+      "kind": "boolean",
+      "label": "Skip Parent Streams",
+      "description": "Set to true to skip API calls for the parent streams (such as repositories) if it is not selected but children are"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "start_date",
+      "kind": "date_iso8601",
+      "label": "Start Date"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "stream_map_config",
+      "kind": "object",
+      "label": "Stream Map Config"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "stream_maps",
+      "kind": "object",
+      "label": "Stream Maps"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "user_agent",
+      "kind": "string",
+      "label": "User Agent"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "user_ids",
+      "kind": "array",
+      "label": "User IDs",
+      "description": "A list of GitHub user ids."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "user_usernames",
+      "kind": "array",
+      "label": "User Usernames",
+      "description": "A list of GithHub usernames."
+    }
+  ],
+  "select": [
+    "*.*",
+    "!traffic_*.*"
+  ]
+}