Using Claude Code to resolve GitHub issues

In this section, we will demonstrate how to tag Claude Code to help resolve issues in a GitHub repository after the integration has been installed.

We start by navigating to the Issues section of the repository. The issue we are looking at is a simple one, opened by a user named happyLolonly. The issue raised by the user was to improve the readability of a variable name by renaming a variable from linkedin_username to linkedin_url, since the variable actually holds a LinkedIn URL.

Start by tagging Claude on the issue and asking it to solve the problem:

@claude, can you fix this

Once Claude is tagged, a new GitHub action starts running automatically. In this case, the action is called small rename. This action is triggered as soon as Claude is mentioned.

Open the action to view its details and watch the logs as they stream in real time. The logs consist mainly of JSON output showing tool calls, tool inputs, and tool outputs. While this information...