fix(ci): improve Claude Code review reliability#955
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The Claude review step was failing ~40% of the time because: - --allowedTools didn't include Read, Glob, Grep, Agent, causing 8-9 permission denials per run and preventing Claude from reading files or spawning the subagents the prompt required - Step 4 spawned N additional scoring agents per issue found, exhausting the 50-turn budget before the PR comment could be posted - Subagents could independently post PR comments, causing fragmented output Fix: add missing tools to --allowedTools, merge per-issue scoring into the review agents themselves, and add guardrails ensuring exactly one consolidated comment is always posted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Updates the Claude Code review GitHub Action workflow to reduce tool permission denials, simplify the review prompt/agent flow, and add guardrails to ensure consistent PR comment output for staging promotion gates.
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--allowedToolsto includeRead,Glob,Grep, andAgent. - Simplify the prompt by embedding severity/confidence scoring into the 4 review agents instead of spawning per-issue scoring agents.
- Add “single commenter / single comment” guardrails to reduce fragmented or missing output.
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The Claude review step was failing ~40% of the time because: - --allowedTools didn't include Read, Glob, Grep, Agent, causing 8-9 permission denials per run and preventing Claude from reading files or spawning the subagents the prompt required - Step 4 spawned N additional scoring agents per issue found, exhausting the 50-turn budget before the PR comment could be posted - Subagents could independently post PR comments, causing fragmented output Fix: add missing tools to --allowedTools, merge per-issue scoring into the review agents themselves, and add guardrails ensuring exactly one consolidated comment is always posted. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The Claude review step was failing ~40% of the time because: - --allowedTools didn't include Read, Glob, Grep, Agent, causing 8-9 permission denials per run and preventing Claude from reading files or spawning the subagents the prompt required - Step 4 spawned N additional scoring agents per issue found, exhausting the 50-turn budget before the PR comment could be posted - Subagents could independently post PR comments, causing fragmented output Fix: add missing tools to --allowedTools, merge per-issue scoring into the review agents themselves, and add guardrails ensuring exactly one consolidated comment is always posted. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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--allowedTools:Read,Glob,Grep,Agent— the review prompt requires these but they weren't permitted, causing 8-9 permission denials per run and ~40% of reviews exiting without posting a commentEvidence of the problem
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