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 coordinator-source-of-truthgit 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/coordinator-source-of-truth)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/github/gh-aw/coordinator-source-of-truth"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/github/gh-aw/coordinator-source-of-truth.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 | $0.00086 | $0.01371 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00043 | $0.00685 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00274 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00137 |
Grade A, and why
coordinator-source-of-truth 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 3d 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.
Copies of this mod
2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- coordinator-source-of-truth — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- coordinator-source-of-truth — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Load this skill when: the coordinator (or any agent) needs to resolve a "where does this state belong?" or "who is allowed to write this file?" question — e.g., when about to write
.squad/decisions.md, when reviewing whether an agent broke the append-only rule, when answering a user question about Squad's file layout, or when adjudicating a conflict between two files. The short summary insquad.agent.mdis for routing; this skill is the full reference.
State backend note
Files below marked as "Derived / append-only" are mutable state — agents access them with runtime state tools (squad_state_read, squad_state_write, squad_state_append, squad_state_delete, squad_state_list). The runtime decides whether the configured backend stores them on disk, git-native state, or an external provider. Files marked as "Authoritative" are static config and always live on disk regardless of backend.
File hierarchy
| File | Status | Who May Write | Who May Read |
|---|---|---|---|
.github/agents/squad.agent.md |
Authoritative governance. All roles, handoffs, gates, and enforcement rules. | Repo maintainer (human) | Squad (Coordinator) |
.squad/decisions.md |
Authoritative decision ledger. Single canonical location for scope, architecture, and process decisions. | Squad (Coordinator) — append only | All agents |
.squad/team.md |
Authoritative roster. Current team composition. | Squad (Coordinator) | All agents |
.squad/routing.md |
Authoritative routing. Work assignment rules. | Squad (Coordinator) | Squad (Coordinator) |
.squad/ceremonies.md |
Authoritative ceremony config. Definitions, triggers, and participants for team ceremonies. | Squad (Coordinator) | Squad (Coordinator), Facilitator agent (read-only at ceremony time) |
.squad/casting/policy.json |
Authoritative casting config. Universe allowlist and capacity. | Squad (Coordinator) | Squad (Coordinator) |
.squad/casting/registry.json |
Authoritative name registry. Persistent agent-to-name mappings. | Squad (Coordinator) | Squad (Coordinator) |
.squad/casting/history.json |
Derived / append-only. Universe usage history and assignment snapshots. | Squad (Coordinator) — append only | Squad (Coordinator) |
.squad/agents/{name}/charter.md |
Authoritative agent identity. Per-agent role and boundaries. | Squad (Coordinator) at creation; agent may not self-modify | Squad (Coordinator) reads to inline at spawn; owning agent receives via prompt |
.squad/agents/{name}/history.md |
Derived / append-only. Personal learnings. Never authoritative for enforcement. | Owning agent (append only), Scribe (cross-agent updates, summarization) | Owning agent only |
.squad/agents/{name}/history-archive.md |
Derived / append-only. Archived history entries. Preserved for reference. | Scribe | Owning agent (read-only) |
.squad/orchestration-log/ |
Derived / append-only. Agent routing evidence. Never edited after write. | Scribe | All agents (read-only) |
.squad/log/ |
Derived / append-only. Session logs. Diagnostic archive. Never edited after write. | Scribe | All agents (read-only) |
.squad/templates/ |
Reference. Format guides for runtime files. Not authoritative for enforcement. | Squad (Coordinator) at init | Squad (Coordinator) |
.squad/rai/policy.md |
Authoritative RAI policy. Check categories, terminology standards, and opt-out rules. | Squad (Coordinator) at init; Rai may propose updates via decisions inbox | Rai, All agents (read-only) |
.squad/rai/audit-trail.md |
Derived / append-only. RAI review evidence log. Redacted — never contains raw secrets or harmful content. | Rai (append only) | Rai, Squad (Coordinator) |
.squad/fact-checker/policy.md |
Authoritative verification + Devil's Advocate policy. Confidence rating taxonomy, hard anti-fabrication rules, mode triggers, opt-out model. | Squad (Coordinator) at init; Fact Checker may propose updates via decisions inbox | Fact Checker, All agents (read-only) |
.squad/fact-checker/audit-trail.md |
Derived / append-only. Verification verdicts + DA brief evidence log. Succinct — verdict + citation, never raw source material. | Fact Checker (append only) | Fact Checker, Squad (Coordinator) |
.squad/plugins/marketplaces.json |
Authoritative plugin config. Registered marketplace sources. | Squad CLI (squad plugin marketplace) |
Squad (Coordinator) |
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 46 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A cecc9c969a2c
coordinator-source-of-truth is a skill published in the GitHub repository github/gh-aw (5,109 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,371 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.
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