Github Agentic Workflows

This is a comprehensive workflow authoring assistant for GitHub's new agentic workflows system, not the standard YAML Actions you already know. It walks Claude through the full lifecycle: inspecting repo state, authoring markdown workflows with frontmatter and safe outputs, configuring engine secrets and network policies, running gh aw compile and trial commands, and debugging failures. The procedures are detailed and opinionated, pushing you toward least privilege patterns, safe outputs over direct write access, and explicit concurrency groups when fanning out reusable workers. Use it when you're building AI driven automation that needs guardrails, not when you're writing deterministic CI pipelines. The security and operational guidance is the real value here.

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last updated: Jun 3, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add webmaxru/agent-skills --skill github-agentic-workflows --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

GitHub Agentic Workflows

Procedures

Step 1: Identify the repository state

Inspect the workspace for .github/workflows/, .github/agents/, existing .lock.yml files, and any gh aw usage.
Execute node skills/github-agentic-workflows/scripts/find-gh-aw-targets.mjs . when a Node runtime is available.
Run gh aw version before making compiler-sensitive decisions so the workflow authoring path matches the installed CLI behavior.
If the repository contains multiple candidate workflows, prefer the workflow the user named or the one closest to the active issue, pull request, or automation surface.
If the repository has no GH-AW setup and the task is to create or maintain agentic workflows, read references/authoring.md before editing.
If the task is limited to standard deterministic GitHub Actions YAML without agentic markdown workflows, stop and explain that this skill does not apply.