How to prevent claude from reviewing its own code?

[levino]

Claude automatically reviews their own code, when I open a PR. It is full or prise for the genius of the PRs code etc.. It is a quite pathetic to be honest and a waste of tokens. How to make Claude only review a PR if it was written (not only opened) by a human or other AI?

[chasewhughes]

Add an if condition to your review job to skip bot-authored PRs:

name: Claude Auto Review
on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, synchronize]

jobs:
  review:
    if: github.event.pull_request.user.type != 'Bot'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: read
      pull-requests: write
      id-token: write
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: anthropics/claude-code-action@v1
        with:
          anthropic_api_key: ${{ secrets.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }}

github.event.pull_request.user.type is "Bot" for all GitHub App bot accounts — claude[bot], dependabot[bot], renovate[bot], etc. This skips all of them.

If you only want to skip Claude specifically (and still review Dependabot PRs, for example):

    if: github.event.pull_request.user.login != 'claude[bot]'

No claude-code-action-specific configuration needed — this is standard GitHub Actions conditional logic.