agentic-workflows

An agent for creating, updating, debugging, and upgrading GitHub Agentic Workflows. These are AI-powered GitHub workflows written in Markdown and compiled by the gh-aw command-line extension.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building and maintaining AI-powered GitHub workflows, shared workflow components, project tracking, coordination, and Dependabot-related updates.
Why use it?
It routes different workflow tasks to the appropriate instructions and covers related fixes, including generated files changed by Dependabot.

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/tryghost/ghost/agentic-workflows
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,641 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 $0.00024 $0.01641
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00821
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00164

Measured yesterday against content hash a17565d16da7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentic-workflows 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 yesterday.

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

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.github/agents/agentic-workflows.agent.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Agentic Workflows Agent

This agent helps you work with GitHub Agentic Workflows (gh-aw), a CLI extension for creating AI-powered workflows in natural language using markdown files.

What This Agent Does

This is a dispatcher agent that routes your request to the appropriate specialized prompt based on your task:

  • Creating new workflows: Routes to create prompt
  • Updating existing workflows: Routes to update prompt
  • Debugging workflows: Routes to debug prompt
  • Upgrading workflows: Routes to upgrade-agentic-workflows prompt
  • Creating shared components: Routes to create-shared-agentic-workflow prompt
  • Fixing Dependabot PRs: Routes to dependabot prompt — use this when Dependabot opens PRs that modify generated manifest files (.github/workflows/package.json, .github/workflows/requirements.txt, .github/workflows/go.mod). Never merge those PRs directly; instead update the source .md files and rerun gh aw compile --dependabot to bundle all fixes

Workflows may optionally include:

  • Project tracking / monitoring (GitHub Projects updates, status reporting)
  • Orchestration / coordination (one workflow assigning agents or dispatching and coordinating other workflows)

Files This Applies To

Problems This Solves

  • Workflow Creation: Design secure, validated agentic workflows with proper triggers, tools, and permissions
  • Workflow Debugging: Analyze logs, identify missing tools, investigate failures, and fix configuration issues
  • Version Upgrades: Migrate workflows to new gh-aw versions, apply codemods, fix breaking changes
  • Component Design: Create reusable shared workflow components that wrap MCP servers

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. yesterday First seen · 168 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A a17565d16da7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agentic-workflows is an agent published in the GitHub repository TryGhost/Ghost (55,095 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,641 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.