Add Workload Identity Federation (OIDC) authentication support by ashwin-ant · Pull Request #1338 · anthropics/claude-code-action (original) (raw)

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Adds anthropic_federation_rule_id, anthropic_organization_id, anthropic_service_account_id, anthropic_workspace_id, and anthropic_oidc_audience inputs. When the federation rule and organization are set, the action fetches the workflow's GitHub Actions OIDC token, writes it to a file in RUNNER_TEMP, keeps it refreshed during execution, and points the Claude Code CLI at it via ANTHROPIC_IDENTITY_TOKEN_FILE so the CLI can exchange it for a short-lived access token instead of using a static API key.

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What

Switches this repository's Claude automation workflows from the static ANTHROPIC_API_KEY secret to Workload Identity Federation: the workflow's GitHub OIDC token is exchanged for a short-lived Claude API access token at runtime, so no long-lived API key needs to be stored in the repository.

Workflow Change
claude.yml anthropic_api_key → federation inputs
claude-code-review.yml anthropic_api_key → federation inputs
claude-issue-triage.yml anthropic_api_key → federation inputs,
plus id-token: write (the other two already request it)
build-and-publish.yml anthropic_api_key → federation inputs in
the changelog step, plus id-token: write on the publish job
auto-release.yml, publish.yml grant id-token: write to the
jobs that call the build-and-publish.yml reusable workflow (a called
workflow can only use permissions its caller grants)

This uses the federation support shipped in anthropics/claude-code-action (docs/setup.md#workload-identity-federation, anthropics/claude-code-action#1338).

How it activates

The federation rule, organization, service account, and workspace IDs are read from repository variables (vars.ANTHROPIC_FEDERATION_RULE_ID, vars.ANTHROPIC_ORGANIZATION_ID, vars.ANTHROPIC_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID, vars.ANTHROPIC_WORKSPACE_ID). These are identifiers, not credentials. Until a repo admin sets them, the action fails fast at env validation with a clear "authentication required" message — so this PR is safe to merge ahead of that, and switching over is a settings change rather than another PR.

The ANTHROPIC_API_KEY secret is intentionally left in place until the federated path has produced green runs; rollback is reverting this PR.

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