Installing and configuring the Claude Code GitHub integration

In this section, we will demonstrate the integration using a different repository called IceBreaker (https://github.com/emarco177/IceBreaker), which is an open-source project available on GitHub. We are using this repository for demonstration purposes only. You can follow along using any GitHub repository you own. If you choose to use your own repository, make sure you have administrator access, as installing the Claude GitHub app and configuring workflows requires admin permissions.

Before starting the installation, make sure you are running Claude Code from a directory that already has an initialized Git repository connected to GitHub. In this chapter, we use the IceBreaker repository, which is already configured. The integration will only work inside a valid GitHub repository.

To begin the GitHub integration, open Claude Code from the desktop and type /git. This reveals the /install-github-app command. Selecting this command...