Claude Code workflow (heyitsnoah/claudesidian)

The Claude Code workflow from heyitsnoah/claudesidian, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: heyitsnoah/claudesidian.github/workflows/claude.ymlLicense MITView source

What it does

This is the Claude Code workflow from the heyitsnoah/claudesidian repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its MIT license.

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The workflow

workflow (.yml)

name: Claude Code

on:
  issue_comment:
    types: [created]
  pull_request_review_comment:
    types: [created]
  issues:
    types: [opened, assigned]
  pull_request_review:
    types: [submitted]

jobs:
  claude:
    if: |
      (github.actor == 'heyitsnoah' || github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]') &&
      (
        (github.event_name == 'issue_comment' && contains(github.event.comment.body, '@claude')) ||
        (github.event_name == 'pull_request_review_comment' && contains(github.event.comment.body, '@claude')) ||
        (github.event_name == 'pull_request_review' && contains(github.event.review.body, '@claude')) ||
        (github.event_name == 'issues' && (contains(github.event.issue.body, '@claude') || contains(github.event.issue.title, '@claude')))
      )
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: write # Allow Claude to push changes
      pull-requests: write # Allow Claude to create/modify PRs
      issues: write # Allow Claude to create/update issues
      id-token: write
      actions: read # Required for Claude to read CI results on PRs
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 1

      - name: Run Claude Code
        id: claude
        uses: anthropics/claude-code-action@v1
        with:
          claude_code_oauth_token: ${{ secrets.CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN }}

          # This is an optional setting that allows Claude to read CI results on PRs
          additional_permissions: |
            actions: read

          # Optional: Give a custom prompt to Claude. If this is not specified, Claude will perform the instructions specified in the comment that tagged it.
          # prompt: 'Update the pull request description to include a summary of changes.'

          # Add claude_args to customize behavior and configuration
          # See https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code-action/blob/main/docs/usage.md
          # or https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sdk#command-line for available options
          claude_args: |
            --allowed-tools "Bash(pnpm install),Bash(pnpm setup),Bash(pnpm attachments:*),Bash(pnpm vault:stats),Bash(pnpm check-updates),Bash(npm run *),Bash(git status),Bash(git diff *),Bash(git log *),Bash(git add *),Bash(git commit *),Bash(git push),Bash(gh pr *),Bash(gh issue *),Bash(ls *),Bash(cat *),Bash(grep *),Bash(find *),View,GlobTool,GrepTool,BatchTool,Read,Write,Edit"

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name: Claude Code
 
on:
  issue_comment:
    types: [created]
  pull_request_review_comment:
    types: [created]
  issues:
    types: [opened, assigned]
  pull_request_review:
    types: [submitted]
 
jobs:
  claude:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    if: |
      (github.actor == 'heyitsnoah' || github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]') &&
      (
        (github.event_name == 'issue_comment' && contains(github.event.comment.body, '@claude')) ||
        (github.event_name == 'pull_request_review_comment' && contains(github.event.comment.body, '@claude')) ||
        (github.event_name == 'pull_request_review' && contains(github.event.review.body, '@claude')) ||
        (github.event_name == 'issues' && (contains(github.event.issue.body, '@claude') || contains(github.event.issue.title, '@claude')))
      )
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    permissions:
      contents: write # Allow Claude to push changes
      pull-requests: write # Allow Claude to create/modify PRs
      issues: write # Allow Claude to create/update issues
      id-token: write
      actions: read # Required for Claude to read CI results on PRs
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 1
 
      - name: Run Claude Code
        id: claude
        uses: anthropics/claude-code-action@v1
        with:
          claude_code_oauth_token: ${{ secrets.CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN }}
 
          # This is an optional setting that allows Claude to read CI results on PRs
          additional_permissions: |
            actions: read
 
          # Optional: Give a custom prompt to Claude. If this is not specified, Claude will perform the instructions specified in the comment that tagged it.
          # prompt: 'Update the pull request description to include a summary of changes.'
 
          # Add claude_args to customize behavior and configuration
          # See https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code-action/blob/main/docs/usage.md
          # or https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sdk#command-line for available options
          claude_args: |
            --allowed-tools "Bash(pnpm install),Bash(pnpm setup),Bash(pnpm attachments:*),Bash(pnpm vault:stats),Bash(pnpm check-updates),Bash(npm run *),Bash(git status),Bash(git diff *),Bash(git log *),Bash(git add *),Bash(git commit *),Bash(git push),Bash(gh pr *),Bash(gh issue *),Bash(ls *),Bash(cat *),Bash(grep *),Bash(find *),View,GlobTool,GrepTool,BatchTool,Read,Write,Edit"

What changed

Run on Latchkey managed runners with one line (runs-on), which apply the fixes below automatically and self-heal transient failures. This example uses latchkey-small; pick the runner size that fits the job.
Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

1 third-party action is referenced by a movable tag. Pin it to the commit SHA (Latchkey resolves and applies this automatically) so a repointed tag cannot change what runs.

What Latchkey heals here

This workflow has steps that commonly fail on transient issues (network, registries, flaky browsers). On Latchkey managed runners they are detected, retried, and self-healed instead of failing your build:

Dependency installs

This workflow runs 1 job per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.

Actions used in this workflow

actions/checkout