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/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<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="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 | $0.00028 | $0.01192 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00477 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00238 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00119 |
Grade A, and why
agentic-workflows scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 14d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
If GitHub API, `gh api`, or GitHub MCP downloads return HTTP 403 (including a token SAML-authorized for a different organization), do not retry with the same token. Fetch the public file without authentication from `http How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 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.
For debugging sessions needing CLI setup or run-URL scoping, first load
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/debug-bootstrap.md; it bootstraps
the same shared strategy used by the debugging routes below.
Debugging, incident, health, and failure-related optimization requests use the
bootstrap's intent routing before generic update, upgrade, or optimization routes,
even when the CLI is installed. Preserve the supplied guidance repository/ref
for all debugging links and public raw fallbacks; URLs showing main below are
defaults only when no guidance revision is supplied. Reuse already-loaded guides.
The intent index is .github/aw/debug-scenarios.md; load only the selected
specialized route, not every debugging reference.
Repository overlay (optional):
- Load the target repository's
.github/aw/instructions.md, if present, after the matched prompt/skill. Use@.github/aw/instructions.mdonly in a matching checkout; do not substitute a guidance-repository overlay. - Precedence: repository overlay instructions override upstream defaults when they conflict.
Read only the files you need:
Use a local guidance checkout only when its repository/ref matches the requested guidance; otherwise use the resolved guidance repository/ref (default github/gh-aw).
If GitHub API, gh api, or GitHub MCP downloads return HTTP 403 (including a token SAML-authorized for a different organization), do not retry with the same token. Fetch the public file without authentication from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/<path> instead, preserving its repository-relative path (including .github/). For example: curl --fail --silent --show-error --location 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md'. Use the same fallback for referenced instructions and SKILL.md files; never send an Authorization header or token to the raw URL. If the public download fails, report that error rather than proceeding without the required instructions. This fallback is for public github/gh-aw content only, not private or enterprise repositories.
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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 - Diagnose, patch, audit, or actively debug workflows:
.github/aw/debug-agentic-workflow.md(local-first strategy, evidence triage and live gates) - Analyze existing runs, logs, or recurring failures:
.github/aw/analyzing-runs.md. General repository-wide debugging or optimization requests start here with failure clustering before selecting a workflow. - AWF model/endpoint 400s, silent cross-family sub-agent failures,
model: autofailures, install-step 404s after a version pin, or questions about version fields: go directly to.github/aw/debug-agentic-workflow.md#model-and-engine-misconfigurationbefore suggesting model changes. - 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 - Design, deploy, inspect or recover a Git-backed work queue:
.github/aw/work-queue.md - Optimize token usage and cost:
.github/aw/token-optimization.md - Advanced cost controls without native settings (custom AIC allowances by server size or shared organization budget policies): read
docs/src/content/docs/reference/cost-management.md#configure-advanced-cost-controls-with-admission(published guidance). Explain the external authority requirement and cooperative limits; do not invent frontmatter fields or promise hard caps, reservations, or mid-run cancellation. - 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
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.
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agentic-workflows is a skill published in the GitHub repository github/gh-aw (5,579 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,192 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.
agentic-workflows compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| agentic-workflowsgithub/gh-aw | Skill | 5.6k | yesterday | MIT | A | 28 | Claude Code, Codex |
| watch-prjustincampbell/gh-watch | Skill | 4 | 7d ago | MIT | A | 48 | Claude Code |
| watch-tagjustincampbell/gh-watch | Skill | 4 | 7d ago | MIT | A | 62 | Claude Code |
| watch-branchjustincampbell/gh-watch | Skill | 4 | 7d ago | MIT | A | 45 | Claude Code |
| watch-commitjustincampbell/gh-watch | Skill | 4 | 7d ago | MIT | A | 48 | Claude Code |
| c-githubdaxaur/openpaw | Skill | 177 | 5mo ago | MIT | A | 48 | Claude Code, Codex |
| update-architecture-docsAlexSkrypnyk/scaffold | Skill | 11 | yesterday | GPL-3.0 | A | 46 | Claude Code |