agentic-workflows

A router for designing, creating, updating, debugging, or upgrading GitHub Agentic Workflows, which are automated GitHub workflows that use agents for tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on GitHub Agentic Workflows, including choosing the right workflow guide and applying an optional repository instruction file.
Why use it?
It directs each request to the matching workflow instructions and accounts for repository-specific instructions when they exist.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/github/copilot-sdk/agentic-workflows
Any agent
npx skills add github/copilot-sdk --skill agentic-workflows
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/copilot-sdk

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,114 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00020 $0.01114
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00557
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00111

Measured yesterday against content hash 50347cf11a80, 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

This is a copy

97% identical to agentic-workflows — 13 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agentic Workflows Router

Use this skill when a user asks to design, create, update, debug, or upgrade GitHub Agentic Workflows in this repository.

This skill is a dispatcher: identify the task type, load the matching workflow prompt/skill file, and follow it directly. Keep responses concise and ask a clarifying question if the correct prompt is unclear.

Repository overlay (optional):

  • If .github/aw/instructions.md exists, load it with @.github/aw/instructions.md after loading the matched prompt/skill.
  • Precedence: repository overlay instructions override upstream defaults when they conflict.

Read only the files you need: Load these files from github/gh-aw (they are not available locally).

  • .github/aw/agentic-chat.md
  • .github/aw/agentic-workflows-mcp.md
  • .github/aw/asciicharts.md
  • .github/aw/campaign.md
  • .github/aw/charts-trending.md
  • .github/aw/charts.md
  • .github/aw/cli-commands.md
  • .github/aw/configure-agentic-engine.md
  • .github/aw/context.md
  • .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow-trigger-details.md
  • .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md
  • .github/aw/create-shared-agentic-workflow.md
  • .github/aw/debug-agentic-workflow.md
  • .github/aw/dependabot.md
  • .github/aw/deployment-status.md
  • .github/aw/designer.md
  • .github/aw/evals.md
  • .github/aw/experiments.md
  • .github/aw/github-agentic-workflows.md
  • .github/aw/github-mcp-server.md
  • .github/aw/instructions.md
  • .github/aw/llms.md
  • .github/aw/loop.md
  • .github/aw/lsp.md
  • .github/aw/mcp-clis.md
  • .github/aw/memory-stateful-patterns.md
  • .github/aw/memory.md
  • .github/aw/messages.md
  • .github/aw/multi-agent-research.md
  • .github/aw/network.md
  • .github/aw/optimize-agentic-workflow.md
  • .github/aw/patterns.md
  • .github/aw/pr-reviewer.md
  • .github/aw/report.md
  • .github/aw/reuse.md
  • .github/aw/safe-outputs-automation.md
  • .github/aw/safe-outputs-content.md
  • .github/aw/safe-outputs-management.md
  • .github/aw/safe-outputs-runtime.md
  • .github/aw/safe-outputs.md
  • .github/aw/serena-tool.md
  • .github/aw/shared-safe-jobs.md
  • .github/aw/skills.md
  • .github/aw/subagents.md
  • .github/aw/syntax-agentic.md
  • .github/aw/syntax-core.md
  • .github/aw/syntax-tools-imports.md
  • .github/aw/syntax.md
  • .github/aw/test-coverage.md
  • .github/aw/test-expression.md
  • .github/aw/token-optimization.md
  • .github/aw/triggers.md
  • .github/aw/update-agentic-workflow.md
  • .github/aw/upgrade-agentic-workflows.md
  • .github/aw/visual-regression.md
  • .github/aw/workflow-constraints.md
  • .github/aw/workflow-editing.md
  • .github/aw/workflow-patterns.md

After loading the matching workflow prompt or skill, follow it directly:

  • Design workflows from scratch via interview: .github/aw/designer.md
  • Create new workflows: .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md
  • Configure or add declarative engines: .github/aw/configure-agentic-engine.md
  • Update existing workflows: .github/aw/update-agentic-workflow.md
  • Debug, audit, or investigate workflows: .github/aw/debug-agentic-workflow.md
  • Upgrade workflows and fix deprecations: .github/aw/upgrade-agentic-workflows.md
  • Create shared components or MCP wrappers: .github/aw/create-shared-agentic-workflow.md
  • Create report-generating workflows: .github/aw/report.md
  • Fix Dependabot manifest PRs: .github/aw/dependabot.md
  • Analyze coverage workflows: .github/aw/test-coverage.md
  • Render compact markdown charts: .github/aw/asciicharts.md
  • Map CLI commands to MCP usage: .github/aw/cli-commands.md
  • Choose workflow architecture and patterns: .github/aw/patterns.md
  • Optimize token usage and cost: .github/aw/token-optimization.md
  • Design long-running multi-agent research workflows: .github/aw/multi-agent-research.md

When the task involves OTEL, OTLP, traces, observability backends, or telemetry-driven analysis, also read and follow skills/otel-queries/SKILL.md after loading the matching workflow prompt or skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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 · 95 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 50347cf11a80

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agentic-workflows is a skill published in the GitHub repository github/copilot-sdk (10,441 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,114 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to agentic-workflows, differing in 13 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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