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/github-copilot-agent-tips-and-tricks/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/github-copilot-agent-tips-and-tricks)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/github/gh-aw/github-copilot-agent-tips-and-tricks"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/github/gh-aw/github-copilot-agent-tips-and-tricks/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/github-copilot-agent-tips-and-tricks"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/github/gh-aw/github-copilot-agent-tips-and-tricks.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00024 | $0.01661 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00664 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00332 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00166 |
Grade A, and why
github-copilot-agent-tips-and-tricks 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
GitHub Copilot Agent Tips and Tricks
Use this guide to find, review, and work with Copilot coding agent pull requests in gh-aw.
Identifying Copilot Agent PRs
Branch Naming Convention
Copilot coding agent branches use the copilot/ prefix, which makes them easy to identify and filter.
Examples from this repository:
copilot/add-cache-for-imported-workflowscopilot/fix-istruthy-bundling-issuecopilot/update-audit-command-copilotcopilot/refactor-mcp-tool-rendering
Author Attribution
Copilot coding agent PRs are typically authored by:
app/github-copilot- The GitHub Copilot bot account- Individual developers using Copilot as an assistant
Searching for Copilot Agent PRs
Using GitHub CLI (gh)
Prerequisites:
# Authenticate with GitHub CLI
gh auth login
Search by author (GitHub Copilot bot):
# List all PRs created by the Copilot bot
gh pr list --author "app/github-copilot" --limit 100
# Include closed PRs
gh pr list --author "app/github-copilot" --state all --limit 100
# Get detailed JSON output
gh pr list --author "app/github-copilot" --json number,title,author,headRefName,createdAt,state
Search by branch prefix:
# Find all PRs from copilot/* branches
gh pr list --search "head:copilot/" --state all
# Combine with other filters
gh pr list --search "head:copilot/ is:open"
gh pr list --search "head:copilot/ is:merged"
Filter with jq:
# Extract specific fields
gh pr list --limit 100 --json author,number,title,headRefName \
--jq '.[] | select(.headRefName | startswith("copilot/")) | {number, title, branch: .headRefName}'
# Filter by author containing "copilot"
gh pr list --limit 100 --json author,number,title \
--jq '.[] | select(.author.login | contains("copilot"))'
Using Git Commands
List copilot branches:
# Local and remote copilot branches
git branch -a | grep copilot
# Remote copilot branches only
git branch -r | grep copilot
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 · 231 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 473ceb413e46
github-copilot-agent-tips-and-tricks is a skill published in the GitHub repository github/gh-aw (5,406 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,661 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.
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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.
ci-cd
CI/CD pipelines for GitHub Actions and Docker-based deployments — lint, test, build, push, deploy stages; environment secrets; branch-gated workflows; health-check rollbacks; and PM2/systemd service restarts.
deploy
Use when ready to ship — runs pre-push gates (lint, typecheck, build, tests, security sweep), commits, releases, and pushes. Standalone, never auto-invoked. Push always requires explicit confirmation. Trigger with /hyperflow:deploy, "ship it", "ready to push", "release", "cut a release", "deploy".
release-habit-hooks
Cut a new release of the habit-hooks packages. Use when asked to release, publish, or bump the version. Reviews what lands, enforces the in-sync versioning rule, validates the changelog, and drives the tag-triggered PyPI publish.
habit-hooks-review
Spawn a reviewer sub-agent to assess a change set against habit-hooks's coding principles. Use AFTER habit-hooks reports clean — habit-hooks catches structural smells; this catches what it cannot (correctness, tests, design, missed edge cases).
code-review-with-lsp
Code review with LSP-powered code intelligence. Uses MCP tools (diagnostics, hover, references, definition, symbols) for semantic code understanding, not just text grep.