I was having the problem yesterday that the GitHub API sometimes simply doesn't list an in progress workflow run in the output when I specifically filter for it:

"api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runs?status=in_progress" -> outputs 3 workflow runs

5 seconds later -> outputs 2 workflow runs

5 seconds later -> outputs same 3 workflow runs again

Apparently they make no guarantees of any type of consistency or continuity in output, which has the side effect of also making it completely useless.

GitHub API says it was closed by bcherny himself:

$ gh api repos/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235 --jq '{state, state_reason, closed_at, closed_by}'

{ "closed_at": "2026-08-17T03:37:37Z", "closed_by": { ... "id": 1761758, "login": "bcherny", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/bcherny", }, "state": "closed", "state_reason": "completed" }