alt Hacker NewsI enabled the github connector in claude web interface.
I presumed Claude would then be able to clone repos, make commits, update the code in its container and then write it back to github.
Instead, the github connector does ..... nothing it all. It's very weird.
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anamexis • today at 2:29 AM
Claude Code Web does all of those things for me with the GitHub connector enabled. I did have a lot of song and dance to get the permissions right though.
bakies • today at 2:38 AM
Use GITHUB_TOKEN env var to give it gh access with the CLI. Or is gh not installed?
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jimmydoe • today at 2:34 AM
My gh connnector half works in cc web. It clones ok but cant see gh comments.
Claude Code Web uses the Github connector to check out repositories, make commits to them, and open a PR. Unfortunately that's about all it can do with it currently, I was working with it the other day and found it somewhat disappointing that it can't read and reply to PR comments as that would be a really natural way to handle refining the code that's been written.
I tried getting it to use the `gh` CLI to do so but it either doesn't have the right permissions on its token or the requests are being intercepted and filtered by the sandbox it's in. I eventually dumped all the comments as JSON from my desktop and pasted it in at which point it handled them fine so it's certainly capable of working that way.