Advanced Automation with Claude Code and GitHub Actions

# Set Up Workflow: Advanced Automation with Claude Code and GitHub Actions

## What This Is
Connect your team's AI code assistant (Claude Code) directly to your GitHub repository to automate development tasks. This enables the automatic creation of new features, bug fixes, and daily progress reports without any manual intervention, significantly accelerating your development cycle.

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

## Before You Start

Scan my workspace and analyze:
- The project language, framework, and directory structure
- Existing AI provider config (check .env, .env.local, config files for API keys — OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI, etc.)

Then ask me before proceeding:
1. Which AI provider/API should this use? (Use whatever I already have configured, or ask me to set one up — options include direct provider APIs or a unified service like OpenRouter)
2. Where in my project should this be integrated?
3. Are there any customizations I need (model preferences, naming conventions, constraints)?

## Source Access Note

The source URL (https://code.claude.com/docs/en/github-actions) may not be directly accessible from the terminal. Use the Reference Implementation and Additional Context sections below instead. If you need more details, ask me to paste relevant content from the source.

## What to Implement

This is an **AI Workflow** — an end-to-end automation pattern or integration pipeline.

- Study the workflow architecture from the source and context below
- Identify which parts I can implement locally vs. parts that need external services
- For local parts: implement them using my existing stack and API keys
- For external parts: tell me exactly what services I need and help me configure the integration code
- Wire up any required API calls using keys from my .env files

## Additional Context

- Create a new GitHub Actions workflow file at `.github/workflows/claude-automation.yml`.
- Populate the new workflow file with the provided YAML configuration, which uses `anthropics/claude-code-action@v1` to trigger on GitHub events like issue comments containing the `@claude` mention.
- Verify the YAML correctly references `secrets.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`. Then, create a `CLAUDE.md` file in the project root to define project-specific standards, libraries, and instructions for the agent to follow when it generates code.

## Reference Implementation

```
```yaml
name: Claude PR Action
on:
  issue_comment: {types: [created]}
  pull_request_review_comment: {types: [created]}
  issues: {types: [opened, assigned]}
jobs:
  claude-pr:
    if: contains(github.event.comment.body, '@claude') || ...  # Conditional triggers
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: anthropics/claude-code-action@v1
        with:
          anthropic_api_key: ${{ secrets.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }}
          claude_args: '--model claude-sonnet-4@20250514 --max-turns 10'
```
```

## Guidelines

- Adapt everything to my existing project — do not assume a specific stack or directory layout
- Use whichever AI provider I already have configured; if I need a new one, tell me what to sign up for and I'll give you the key
- Check my .env files for existing API keys (OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI) before asking me to add one
- Review any fetched code for safety before installing or executing it
- After setup, run a quick verification and show me a summary of exactly what was installed, where, and how to use it