Install Github CLI Tool on Claude Code Cloud

01_README.md

Install Github CLI Tool on Claude Code Cloud

Ever get annoyed that Claude Code can't open Github PRs, update PR description, or work with issues? Well now we can.

This is a guide specifically for the web and mobile-based Claude Code Cloud.

How this works

Claude Code Cloud doesn't ship with the gh command line tool for working with issues, pull requests and other data.

This script bootstraps the Claude Code Cloud environment by installing the gh tool on startup.

Setup

• Add claude-web-setup.sh to your project
• Add SessionStart hook to your .claude/settings.json
• Add the below to your Claude Code Cloud environment

WITH_GH_CMD=true                # required to toggle installation of `gh` on
GH_TOKEN=BLAH                   # personal token with appropriate permissions
GH_REPO=anthropic/claude-code   # optional but shortcuts which repo `gh` uses

Using gh tool

You can now ask Claude Code to read or create issues, generate pull requests, etc.

You can simply ask Claude Code to look at issues, or instruct it specifically to use the gh tool.

Opting in to installing the tool

Because gh installation adds a few seconds, you may want to opt into this. I've done this by creating a specific Claude Code Cloud environment that has the WITH_GH_CMD=true in.

If that flag is missing, gh won't be installed.

02_claude-web-setup.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -e

# Only run in Claude Code web environment
if [ "$CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE" != "true" ]; then
  exit 0
fi

# Install gh CLI if flag is set and gh not present
if [ "$WITH_GH_CMD" = "true" ] && ! command -v gh &> /dev/null; then
  echo "Installing GitHub CLI..."
  BASE_URL="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gh"
  LATEST_DEB=$(curl -x "$HTTPS_PROXY" -sL "$BASE_URL/" \
    | grep -oP 'href="gh_[^"]+_amd64\.deb"' \
    | sed 's/href="//;s/"//' \
    | sort -V | tail -1)

  if [ -n "$LATEST_DEB" ]; then
    curl -x "$HTTPS_PROXY" -sL "$BASE_URL/$LATEST_DEB" -o /tmp/gh.deb
    dpkg -i /tmp/gh.deb 2>/dev/null || sudo dpkg -i /tmp/gh.deb
    rm /tmp/gh.deb
    echo "Installed: $(gh --version | head -1)"
  fi
fi

03_settings.json

{
  "hooks": {
    "SessionStart": [
      {
        "hooks": [
          {
            "type": "command",
            "command": "bash ./claude-web-setup.sh"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}