Code reviews keep timing out #674
Description
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
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