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170 points anandchowdhary | 4 comments | 15 Nov 25 16:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Continuous Claude is a CLI wrapper I made that runs Claude Code in an iterative loop with persistent context, automatically driving a PR-based workflow. Each iteration creates a branch, applies a focused code change, generates a commit, opens a PR via GitHub's CLI, waits for required checks and reviews, merges if green, and records state into a shared notes file.

This avoids the typical stateless one-shot pattern of current coding agents and enables multi-step changes without losing intermediate reasoning, test failures, or partial progress.

The tool is useful for tasks that require many small, serial modifications: increasing test coverage, large refactors, dependency upgrades guided by release notes, or framework migrations.

Blog post about this: https://anandchowdhary.com/blog/2025/running-claude-code-in-...

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janaagaard ◴[17 Nov 25 20:08 UTC] No.45957680[source]▶
Kudos on making Bash readable.

(https://github.com/AnandChowdhary/continuous-claude/blob/mai...)

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jdc0589 ◴[17 Nov 25 21:14 UTC] No.45958379[source]▶
im not saying OP did this, but I've actually had AI spit out some pretty stellar bash scripts, surprisingly
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anandchowdhary ◴[17 Nov 25 21:18 UTC] No.45958439[source]▶
No, you're right. It was a pretty collaborative effort with me and Claude!
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1. svieira ◴[17 Nov 25 21:29 UTC] No.45958550[source]▶
FYI, you're missing two patterns that allow the `--key=value` admirers and the `-alltheshortopsinasinglestring` spacebar savers among us to be happy (for the otherwise excellent options parsing code).

   shopt -s extglob
   case "$1"
     # Flag support - allow -xyz z-takes-params
     -@(a|b|c)*) _flag=${1:1:1}; _rest=${1:2}; shift; set -- "-$_flag" "-$_rest" "$@";;
     # Param=Value support
     -?(-)*=*) _key=${1%%=*}; _value=${1#*=}; shift; set -- "${_key}" "$_value" "$@";;
   esac
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2. anandchowdhary ◴[17 Nov 25 22:00 UTC] No.45958853[source]▶
For letting me know! Would you like to create a PR? Otherwise I'll add you as a Co-Authored-By!
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3. insin ◴[18 Nov 25 05:59 UTC] No.45961848[source]▶
Gesundheit
4. svieira ◴[18 Nov 25 19:37 UTC] No.45970962[source]▶
Co-authored is fine, thanks for asking!