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D3 Claude Code Configuration & Workflows · Paper 3

[Scenario 5: Claude Code for Continuous Integration] You are integrating Claude Code into a CI/CD pipeline for automated code review, test generation, and pull-request feedback — designing prompts that produce actionable findings while minimizing false positives. Your CI job must run Claude Code non-interactively and produce review findings your pipeline can parse and post as inline PR comments. Which invocation is correct?

• A.claude “review this PR” piped through grep to extract findings from prose
• B.claude -p “review this PR” with --output-format json and --json-schema, producing machine-parseable structured findings without waiting for interactive input
• C.claude --batch “review this PR” --format=structured
• D.claude -p “review this PR” alone, then regex-parsing the prose output

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Correct answer: B

A: hangs waiting for interactive input and then scrapes prose

B: The CI trio: -p (--print) for non-interactive execution, --output-format json for machine-readable output, and --json-schema to enforce the findings structure your pipeline consumes — no prose parsing, no input hangs.

C: invents flags that do not exist

D: solves the hang but leaves the pipeline regex-parsing unstructured text

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