Code reviews keep timing out

[chicks-net]

Describe the bug

Claude code reviews on my github repos keep running for hours and not completing. I've seen this since the beginning of November 2025. It does not seem to be specific to any particular repository.

To Reproduce

Keep creating PRs or pushing more commits on existing PRs. About 20% of the time Claude will never respond - so the github action times out after 6 hours. Sometimes it is also failing for no apparent reason.

Expected behavior

Fail faster and give clearer errors for what failed.

Screenshots

Highly Likely Examples:

• 2025-11-03 https://github.com/chicks-net/mythical_person_month/actions/runs/19039069191 timed out after 6h
• 2025-11-11 https://github.com/fini-net/template-repo/actions/runs/19265659909 on 🐠 [readme] update CONTRIBUTING with new just recipe fini-net/template-repo#33 where I pushed another commit on the branch and I was able to get Claude to review it.
• 2025-11-11 https://github.com/fini-net/fini-coredns-example/actions/runs/19268838153 timed out after 6h
• 2025-11-12 https://github.com/chicks-net/my-user-manuals/actions/runs/19297707973/job/55183728507 in 🟢 [just] update gh-process to v3.7 chicks-net/my-user-manuals#9
• 2025-11-16 https://github.com/fini-net/template-repo/actions/runs/19408055136 timed out after 6h
• 2025-11-16 https://github.com/fini-net/fini-infra/actions/runs/19410625539 timed out after 6h
• 2025-11-21 🧼 [just] gh-process v3.9 fixes shellcheck warnings chicks-net/megamap#20 had 3 pushes and 0 reviews.

Potentially related:

• 2025-11-18 https://github.com/fini-net/fini-projects/actions/runs/19469555511 on 🧼 [just] gh-process v3.9 fixes shellcheck warnings fini-net/fini-projects#15 was due to cloudflare outage
• 2025-11-21 🧼 [just] gh-process v3.9 fixes shellcheck warnings chicks-net/presentation-notes#19 had two successful reviews and one failure that might not be related to the other timeouts that took hours to happen.

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Workflow yml file

https://github.com/fini-net/template-repo/blob/main/.github/workflows/claude-code-review.yml

It is the stock file generated by Claude Code during the process of adding Claude at the repo level. The only change is adding the global permissions so that Chekov doesn't complain about it.

API Provider

[x] Anthropic First-Party API (default)
[ ] AWS Bedrock
[ ] GCP Vertex

Additional context

anthropics/claude-code#11482

[chicks-net]

🔴 chicks-net/megamap#20 is an example from today where Claude has not been able to do a code review after three attempts at getting one. I expect all of these to time out at this point.

🟢 https://status.claude.com/ and https://www.githubstatus.com/ are all green.

[chicks-net]

I've updated the PR description with more examples from the whole month of November.

[ashwin-ant]

Do you have any special network setup on any of your repos? It seems like it's stalling at the part where it should install Claude Code

[chicks-net]

Do you have any special network setup on any of your repos? It seems like it's stalling at the part where it should install Claude Code

No, all of these are public repoos without strange network setups. I'm using the default github action runners provided by github.

[ashwin-ant]

We're seeing some instances of this as well: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code-action/actions/runs/19552362122/job/55986762986

[ashwin-ant]

Adding timeout + retry here while we continue investigating root cause: #694. This is in the latest v1 release

[chicks-net]

Thanks for looking into this! Retrying sounds like a good solution. I'll keep generating PRs to test. 😬