Ask HN: Do you give AI coding agents their own GitHub account?

6 points by ahmd 12 days ago | 4 comments

Yes, its been really useful personally for me. In fact, read a stat where 4% of Github contributions are happening via Claude Code today and they expect that number to reach to 20% of all worldwide contributions by the end of 2026.

paganartifact 11 days ago | |

X to doubt.

Nobody is using anything from Anthropic lol. OpenAI and Anthropic can barely keep up with text-to-text and have basically given up on everything else.

Everybody uses Gemini for text because it's better with the web and far more accessible, or they use Kling/Vidu/Hailou, Singify, etc. for media production.

Literally nobody is using that Claude trash except tire kickers or to see what all the hype is about, since it's advertised down our throats.

No amount of advertising will make Anthropic good, as long as they are copying OpenAI they are doing nothing of value.

AlexITC 12 days ago |

I found it easier to create a fine-grained github token with minimal scope/permissions for the tasks I intend to delegate.

For context, I'm running multiple agents and each of them is isolated with its own token.

motoroco 11 days ago |

yep! it's really helpful. I have different accounts on my gitea server for various bots and agents with restricted access scopes. it's been great for making branch protections like mandatory reviews actually enforceable