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fix(claude-review): skip claude-code-action for dependabot/renovate PRs#16

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fix(claude-review): skip claude-code-action for dependabot/renovate PRs#16
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Problem

claude-code-action@v1 crashes when invoked on a dependabot PR with:

```
Internal error: directory mismatch for directory
"/home/runner/work/_actions/anthropics/claude-code-action/v1/tsconfig.json", fd 4
```

Verified across #7, #8, #93/3 consecutive dependabot PRs, all FAILURE on `review / Claude Review`. Same action + same `@v1` succeeds on human-authored PRs (e.g. #11, #13, #15). The bug is specific to dependabot's restricted GITHUB_TOKEN scope, not the diff content.

Why "skip" not "fix"

Even when the action runs successfully on dep bumps, the value is low. Dependabot diffs are upstream version metadata, not project logic. Claude has no signal to add. The risk classifier still labels them (`risk:standard` / `risk:safe_deps`), and humans still see the diff at merge time. Skipping Claude review on bot-authored PRs is signal, not loss.

What this PR does

Adds a pre-check step that runs before `anthropics/claude-code-action@v1`:

```yaml

  • name: Skip review for bot-authored PRs (dependabot/renovate)
    id: bot_check
    if: github.event.pull_request.user.login == 'dependabot[bot]' || ...renovate[bot]
    run: |
    gh pr comment "$PR" --body "Skipped: bot-authored PR ..."
    echo "skipped=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

  • name: Claude Code Review
    if: ${{ steps.bot_check.outputs.skipped != 'true' }} # NEW
    uses: anthropics/claude-code-action@v1
    ```

The job stays green either way, so branch rulesets that require `review / Claude Review` are satisfied. Bot PRs get a one-line "Skipped" comment so reviewers know it ran.

After this lands

PRs #7, #8, #9 (the 3 stuck dependabot PRs in this repo) will turn green on next CI run and become eligible for the standard merge gate.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

claude-code-action@v1 currently crashes when invoked on a dependabot
PR with the error:

  Internal error: directory mismatch for directory
  "/home/runner/work/_actions/anthropics/claude-code-action/v1/tsconfig.json", fd 4

Verified across #7, #8, #9 — three consecutive
dependabot PRs, all FAILURE on `review / Claude Review`. The same
action+version succeeds on human-authored PRs in the same repo, so
the bug is specific to dependabot's restricted GITHUB_TOKEN scope.

Even when the action does run on dep bumps, the value is low —
diffs are upstream version metadata, not project logic. The risk
classifier still labels them; humans still see the diff at merge
time. Skipping Claude review here is signal, not loss.

Implementation: a pre-check step posts a one-line "Skipped" PR
comment when the PR author is dependabot[bot] or renovate[bot],
sets a step output, and the claude-code-action step is gated on
that output. The job remains green so branch rulesets that require
`review / Claude Review` are satisfied.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@github-actions github-actions Bot added the risk:blocked Risk class: blocked label May 1, 2026
Comment on lines +57 to +59
set -euo pipefail
gh pr comment "$PR" --body "Skipped: bot-authored PR (\`$ACTOR\`). Dependency bumps are reviewed by the risk classifier and human merge gate."
echo "skipped=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
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Bug: skipped output never set if gh pr comment fails

With set -euo pipefail, if gh pr comment exits non-zero (transient error, rate-limit, or insufficient token permissions on a bot PR), the echo "skipped=true" line is never reached. Because Claude Code Review carries an explicit if: condition, GitHub Actions overrides the default success() guard and evaluates it anyway — '' != 'true'true — so it runs on the bot PR and reproduces the original crash.

Fix: write the output before the comment, so the guard is set even when commenting fails.

Suggested change
set -euo pipefail
gh pr comment "$PR" --body "Skipped: bot-authored PR (\`$ACTOR\`). Dependency bumps are reviewed by the risk classifier and human merge gate."
echo "skipped=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
set -euo pipefail
echo "skipped=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
gh pr comment "$PR" --body "Skipped: bot-authored PR (\`$ACTOR\`). Dependency bumps are reviewed by the risk classifier and human merge gate."

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claude Bot commented May 1, 2026

Flagged 1 issue inline — echo "skipped=true" must come before gh pr comment so the guard is set even when commenting fails; as written, a transient comment failure causes Claude Review to run on the bot PR and reproduce the original crash.

@topcoder1 topcoder1 merged commit bd507f6 into main May 1, 2026
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