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.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to github/gh-aw. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/skills/gh-agent-task/SKILL.mdgit 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/gh-agent-task)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/github/gh-aw/gh-agent-task"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/github/gh-aw/gh-agent-task/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/gh-agent-task"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/github/gh-aw/gh-agent-task.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Privilege Escalation · line 386 Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
- high Privilege Escalation · line 29 Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
- high Privilege Escalation · line 195 Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
- medium Excessive Agency · line 17 Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
- low Privilege Escalation · line 181 Skill requests more permissions than appear necessary for its stated functionality. Review if elevated access is justified.Fix: Request only the minimum permissions required. Document why each permission is needed. Remove broad permissions like '*' or 'all'.
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 | $0.00019 | $0.02345 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00938 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00469 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00234 |
Grade A, and why
gh-agent-task 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 1mo 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.
This is a copy
86% identical to gh-agent-session — 64 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 387 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
GitHub CLI Agent Task Extension
The gh agent-task extension creates GitHub Copilot coding agent tasks from the CLI. A task is a GitHub issue that triggers automated code changes from natural language instructions.
Repository: https://github.com/github/agent-task (internal GitHub extension)
Overview
Agent tasks are GitHub issues that:
- Contain natural language instructions for code changes
- Trigger GitHub Copilot to autonomously execute the task
- Create pull requests with the implemented changes
- Provide a workflow for reviewing and merging automated code modifications
Installation
Install via GitHub CLI:
gh extension install github/agent-task
Note: This extension requires authentication with a Personal Access Token (PAT) that has appropriate permissions for creating issues and pull requests.
Core Commands
Create Agent Task
Create a new agent task from a description:
# Create task with inline description
gh agent-task create "Fix the bug in authentication flow"
# Create task from file
gh agent-task create --from-file task-description.md
# Specify base branch
gh agent-task create --base develop "Implement new feature"
# Create in different repository
gh agent-task create --repo owner/repo "Update documentation"
Command Parameters:
- Description (positional): Natural language description of the task
--from-file <path>: Read task description from file--base <branch>: Base branch for the pull request (default: repository default branch)--repo <owner/repo>: Target repository (default: current repository)
Output Format: The command outputs the URL of the created agent task:
https://github.com/owner/repo/issues/123
List Agent Tasks
List agent tasks in a repository:
# List all agent tasks
gh agent-task list
# List with filters
gh agent-task list --state open
gh agent-task list --state closed
gh agent-task list --state all
View Agent Task
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 387 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A a56f40b5dcf9
gh-agent-task is a skill published in the GitHub repository github/gh-aw (5,406 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 2,345 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to gh-agent-session, differing in 64 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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c-github
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suivi-actions
Extraire et suivre les actions et décisions ouvertes à travers les comptes-rendus.
Apple Reminders
Create, organize, and manage reminder lists for personal tasks.
Google Calendar
Schedule meetings, focused work blocks, and calendar events without conflicts.
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").