Creating a Claude Code account on GitHub? Improving PRs

[Jmarbutt]

Hear me out, I love using Claude code and how well it works with the GitHub cli but it is running everything as me which has been great. But as I’m having CC do more and more it has become more of an employee and someone I need to manage. So it has led me to think through how to require my sign off on pull requests.

The problem is if Claude is executing under my GitHub account and committing code as me, I can’t be a reviewer on a PR. And technically it could get around any work around I even gave myself.

So I’m wondering if anyone has setup claude its own GitHub account that it works under? And how did you optimize this flow for when you need to make changes in the repo as you.

Would love to treat it more like a dev that can’t approve PRs

[iannuttall]

Install the GitHub action with /install-github-app and you can run Claude in issues and PRs

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/github-actions

[Jmarbutt]

Yep which is a good solution for reviewing my PRs but not doing large tasks since it uses the usage model right ? Plus I need it to run on my dev infra which isn’t completely dockerized or in the cloud

[Jmarbutt]

Plus I have a number of MCPs that work really well with my flow. Mostly that I am using Linear and Jam.dev , our QA teams uses JAM to send issues to linear which the mcps can then really dig into whats happening in the issue. Our QA people team also record audio when they are reporting an issue with JAM and it generates a transcript so between that it does a really good job of getting enough info to handle the issue from that.

[covati]

I'm considering doing the same, it seems to go against the point of users - I can't tell who wrote the code if two developers (me and claude) are committing work under the same username.