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The pill in the top bar always names the next step for your change. Press it, and the agent does that step in the chat, where you can watch. Pressing the pill doesn’t run git itself. It sends the agent a plain request, like “Open a pull request for this branch against main”. With Claude, anything that reaches GitHub still asks for your approval first. If you press the pill while the agent is working, the step waits its turn. The pill says Queued, and the step runs when the agent finishes. To cancel it, hover over the pill and choose Take Back. While a step runs, the pill says what’s happening, such as Creating PR or Pushing.

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A typical journey

1

Connect GitHub

Only needed once. See Create a pull request.
2

Create PR

Your change is on its own branch. To open a pull request, press the pill.
3

Checks Running

Your team’s automated checks are running on the pull request.
4

Ready to Merge

Checks passed. Pressing opens the pull request on GitHub. Your team decides who merges. Often that’s an engineer.
5

Merged

Your change is in the codebase.

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Every state

Hover over the pill to see your branch name, how far ahead or behind main it is, and when it was last checked. It checks again after every agent turn, whenever you come back to the window, and every few minutes.

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Choosing the default action

Some states have a menu next to the label, headed Choose the default action. Choosing an option runs it straight away, and the pill remembers it for next time.
  • Create PR or Push to Main, for a branch with no pull request. The default is Create PR.
  • Open in browser or Merge, for a pull request that’s ready. The default is Open in browser. If GitHub won’t let you merge yet, for example because a review is required, the pill opens the browser either way.
  • Upload Changes, when checks failed and you have changes that aren’t on GitHub yet.
On a team, keep Create PR: it’s the safer choice. See Push to Main.