GitHub Agentic Workflows is a GitHub CLI extension that lets developers define AI-assisted repository automation in Markdown and run it through GitHub Actions. It is intended for tasks requiring interpretation or reasoning, such as issue triage, pull-request review, CI investigation, documentation maintenance, and dependency analysis. The catalogue entries provide skills and agents for working with these workflows.
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.
npx skills add github/gh-aw --skill agentic_workflowsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/gh-awWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/github/gh-aw/agentic_workflows)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/github/gh-aw/agentic_workflows"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/github/gh-aw/agentic_workflows.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00020 | $0.00537 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00269 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00107 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00054 |
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 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.
What it actually says
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.mdexists, load it with@.github/aw/instructions.mdafter 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).
{{AW_FILE_LIST}}
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 - Add skills or agent plugins requested by the user (
skills:/plugins:frontmatter, never on-the-fly installs):.github/aw/skills.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.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 38 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A ba09d8ba4335
agentic-workflows is a skill published in the GitHub repository github/gh-aw (5,108 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 537 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 2026-09-05.
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c-github
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watch-pr
Watch a GitHub pull request for CI status, reviews, comments, merge conflicts, and terminal states using the gh-watch extension. Use when the user wants to monitor a PR, wait for CI, or track PR progress.
watch-tag
Watch a GitHub repository for new tags using the gh-watch extension. Use when the user wants to be notified when a tag is created, when a release is cut, or when a tag that includes a specific commit appears (e.g. "tell me when my merge ships in a release").
watch-branch
Watch a GitHub branch for new commits using the gh-watch extension. Use when the user wants to be notified when new commits are pushed to a branch, monitor main for merges, or track branch activity.
watch-commit
Watch a GitHub commit for CI status changes using the gh-watch extension. Use when the user wants to monitor a commit's CI checks, wait for a build to finish, or track CI progress on a specific SHA.
update-architecture-docs
Generate or update the architecture documentation in docs/content/architecture/. Use on "update architecture docs", "generate architecture documentation", "regenerate architecture docs", or after any structural change to the codebase.