Issues with Tool Authorization: Claude pauses for approval despite using --allowedTools

[Ranzaaroor]

Hi everyone,

I’m working on a workflow where a Claude Code Action audits PR diffs and, if necessary, checks out a branch to create a new PR to master.

I'm hitting a roadblock where Claude consistently pauses to ask for manual permission to run commands like gh pr view or gh issue close, even though I have explicitly added these to the --allowedTools configuration. Since this is running in a CI environment, the process just hangs or fails because there is no way to provide manual approval.

I’ve tried:

Adding Bash(gh *) and Bash(git *) to the allowed tools.

Explicitly listing subcommands like Bash(gh issue close*).

Passing the GH_TOKEN environment variable.

Has anyone successfully implemented a fully "hands-off" automation with the GitHub CLI tools? Am I missing a specific flag to force non-interactive mode for these authorized tools?

Thanks!