Conversational Development With Claude Code — Part 16: Installing Claude Code in GitHub with Actions

Conversational Development With Claude Code — Part 16: Installing Claude Code in GitHub with Actions TL;DR — Claude Code + GitHub Actions is what happens when “AI assistance” stops being a tab and becomes a first‑class citizen in your repo . In this chapter we’ll install the Claude GitHub App, wire up two workflows (interactive mention-driven and automated review-driven ), lock down secrets and permissions , and learn the “admin path” (fast) vs the “infra path” (manual). The result: Claude can respond to @claude inside PRs and issues, run on GitHub-hosted runners, and treat your repository as the source of truth. This part is about turning the repo into the conversation . The shift: from “chatting about code” to “code that can answer back” Once you’ve worked with Claude Code locally, something changes in your mental model: locally, the model follows you through the filesystem, on GitHub, the model meets your team at the point of decision: PRs and issues. GitHub Actions is not just an a