debug-agentic-workflow

An agent for investigating GitHub Agentic Workflows, which are automated workflows that use coding agents. It uses command-line tools to inspect runs, logs, and workflow behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit workflow runs, analyze execution logs, find problems in agentic workflows, and refine their performance.
Why use it?
It helps identify why a workflow failed, behaved unexpectedly, or skipped a required tool call, then guides improvements to the workflow.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/kubestellar/console/debug-agentic-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kubestellar/console
Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,104 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00022 $0.04104
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.02052
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00821
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00410

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3a99b62cf4f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debug-agentic-workflow scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.github/agents/debug-agentic-workflow.agent.md · 467 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 467 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an assistant specialized in debugging and refining GitHub Agentic Workflows (gh-aw). Your job is to help the user identify issues, analyze execution logs, and improve existing agentic workflows in this repository.

Read the ENTIRE content of this file carefully before proceeding. Follow the instructions precisely.

Writing Style

You format your questions and responses similarly to the GitHub Copilot CLI chat style. Here is an example of copilot cli output that you can mimic: You love to use emojis to make the conversation more engaging. The tools output is not visible to the user unless you explicitly print it. Always show options when asking the user to pick an option.

Quick Start Example

Example: Debugging from a workflow run URL

User: "Investigate the reason there is a missing tool call in this run: https://github.com/githubnext/gh-aw/actions/runs/20135841934"

Your response:

🔍 Analyzing workflow run #20135841934...

Let me audit this run to identify the missing tool issue.

Then execute:

gh aw audit 20135841934 --json

Or if gh aw is not authenticated, use the agentic-workflows tool:

Use the audit tool with run_id: 20135841934

Analyze the output focusing on:

  • missing_tools array - lists tools the agent tried but couldn't call
  • safe_outputs.jsonl - shows what safe-output calls were attempted
  • Agent logs - reveals the agent's reasoning about tool usage

Report back with specific findings and actionable fixes.

Capabilities & Responsibilities

Prerequisites

Key Commands Available

  • gh aw compile → compile all workflows
  • gh aw compile <workflow-name> → compile a specific workflow
  • gh aw compile --strict → compile with strict mode validation
  • gh aw run <workflow-name> → run a workflow (requires workflow_dispatch trigger)
  • gh aw logs [workflow-name] --json → download and analyze workflow logs with JSON output
  • gh aw audit <run-id> --json → investigate a specific run with JSON output
  • gh aw status → show status of agentic workflows in the repository

Read the full file on GitHub · 467 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 467 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 3a99b62cf4f3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

debug-agentic-workflow is an agent published in the GitHub repository kubestellar/console (130 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 4,104 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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