Hire a Code Watchdog: Building a Claude Code Auto-Review Bot as a Quality Gate for Solo Projects (with Real Ops Logs)

When you ship alone, nobody catches your 2 AM mistakes. This article gives you a working Claude-powered review bot that runs on every pull request via GitHub Actions, posts inline findings, and — crucially — refuses to bankrupt you. By the end you can copy two files into any repo and have a guard dog that barks at real bugs and stays quiet otherwise. I'll also walk through the failures I hit wiring this up, because the interesting part of a review bot isn't the happy path. It's the night the do...