Repository
github/gh-aw agent skills
- skills
- 52
- official
- 52
- GitHub stars
- 5.3k
GitHub description: “GitHub Agentic Workflows”
- Stars
- 5,350 (576 forks)
- Licence
- MIT
- Last push
- Oct 2026
- Created
- Aug 2025
- Homepage
- gh.io/gh-aw
- Source
- github.com/github/gh-aw
- gh-extension
- actions
- cai
- ci
- claude-code
- codex
- copilot
- github-actions
Install all skills
npx skills add github/gh-awAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in github/gh-aw, ranked
Ranked by score. Sort bymost stars,trending,newest,recently updated
| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drives a real browser from the command line with playwright-cli to open pages, interact, mock requests, save state and work with Playwright tests. | github/ | 5.3k | 23 repos | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 2 | Designs and verifies a deterministic grader that measures whether a GitHub Agentic Workflow run reached its real-world or repository outcome. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~6.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 3 | Scaffolds, edits, reloads and debugs a canvas extension that the GitHub Copilot CLI can open in its side panel. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 4 | Drives an open pull request to merge-ready from inside a GitHub Copilot cloud agent, resolving review threads and local checks concurrently, without merging or retriggering CI. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Warn | MIT | today |
| 5 | Bumps gh-aw's pinned gh-aw-firewall version, rebuilds generated artifacts, and flags upstream spec or schema changes that need follow-up work. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~899 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 6 | Guide to the console struct tag system in gh-aw: headers, titles, number and cost formats, omitempty, and how structs, slices and maps render in the terminal. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~736 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 7 | Guides an agent through collecting, planning, addressing and answering pull request review feedback, accepting only comments from Copilot, GitHub Actions and team members. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 8 | Define and validate GitHub custom agent files, prompts, and examples. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 9 | Adds and tests declarative, behavior-defined agentic engines in GitHub Agentic Workflows, touching Go infrastructure only when the declarative model falls short. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 10 | Guides your agent through diagnosing failed GitHub Agentic Workflows by downloading run logs, auditing individual runs and reading the artifacts they leave behind. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 11 | Development rules for changes to GitHub's gh-aw: tiered validation commands, a command matrix by change type, focused test checks and a merge-main playbook. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 12 | Code organization patterns, file structure guidelines, WASM build variants, and string processing conventions for gh-aw Go code. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 13 | Internal gh-aw architecture: validation system design, safe output message patterns, schema validation, YAML compatibility notes, and MCP logs guardrail. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 14 | Release management, changeset workflow, firewall log parsing, breaking CLI change rules, and Go module summaries for gh-aw. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 15 | Security best practices for gh-aw workflows and Go code: template injection prevention, shell script security, supply chain hardening, and static analysis integration. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 16 | Write concise Diataxis docs for gh-aw with Starlight markdown conventions. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 17 | Write consistent, actionable validation error messages in gh-aw. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 18 | Apply safe error-pattern matching rules for agentic engines. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 19 | Design gh-aw error handling, retry, recovery, and debugging flows. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~824 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 20 | Use gh agent-session commands to inspect and manage agent sessions. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 21 | Use gh agent-task commands to create, run, and monitor agent tasks. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 22 | Practical tips for reviewing and improving Copilot agent PRs. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 23 | Query GitHub discussions with jq filtering and reusable selectors. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~736 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 24 | Query GitHub issues with jq filtering and reusable selectors. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~720 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 25 | List GitHub repository labels with perpage pagination and name filtering support. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~490 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 26 | Reference for GitHub MCP server tools, methods, and usage patterns. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~4.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 27 | Query GitHub pull requests with jq filtering and reusable selectors. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~887 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 28 | Write robust JavaScript for GitHub Actions github-script steps. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~450 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 29 | List GitHub Actions workflows with perpage pagination support. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~431 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 30 | Add and validate custom Go analysis linters in gh-aw. An agent skill from github/gh-aw. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~922 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 31 | Implement secret-safe HTTP headers for MCP transport in gh-aw. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 32 | Split large JavaScript files into maintainable modules safely. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 33 | Add new safe-output message types and wire validation/rendering. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 34 | Troubleshoot npm registry, proxy, and certificate failures on the Microsoft corporate network or VPN using the 1ES public npm feed. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~911 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 35 | Analyze and reduce token consumption in agentic workflows — guardrail-specific entry points, measurement, and optimization techniques. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 36 | Analyze gh-aw OpenTelemetry traces from JSONL mirrors or OTLP backends. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 37 | Generate a new pkg/linters analyzer from a merged or open PR pattern. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~479 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 38 | Merge a base ref and safely regenerate compiled workflow lock-file conflicts. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~747 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 39 | Review agentic workflow changes for correctness, security posture, and optimization opportunities with compile, validation, and audit evidence. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 40 | Optional Sergo examples for cache formats and reporting templates. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~437 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 41 | Run and integrate Skillz MCP server with Docker for skill execution. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~905 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 42 | Add temporary ID support to safe-output jobs end to end. An agent skill from github/gh-aw. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 43 | Review code that performs git or gh operations against repository checkouts in gh-aw, checking that the right credentials are available at the right time and that sparseness, shallowness and… | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 44 | Implement and test Go codemods for the gh aw fix command. An agent skill from github/gh-aw. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~877 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 45 | Publish validated gh-aw changes as a draft pull request from a cloud agent. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~907 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 46 | Rewrite prompts for minimal tokens, maximal clarity, and low ambiguity for LLM consumption. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~494 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 47 | Operate safely and efficiently inside a gh-aw workflow with a restricted tools/bash allowlist, and correctly triage tool-denial events before they exhaust the session's denial budget. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 48 | Review a GitHub security advisory and safely update .github/aw/compat.json with evidence-backed version enforcement. | github/ | 5.3k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in github/gh-aw?
playwright-cli Browser Automation (official) from github/gh-aw ranks first of the 52 skills in github/gh-aw listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 5.3k GitHub stars, 23 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 2.8k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Operational Value Designer and Copilot Canvas Extension Author.
Are the skills in github/gh-aw official?
52 of the 52 skills in github/gh-aw are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: playwright-cli Browser Automation, Operational Value Designer, Copilot Canvas Extension Author, GitHub Copilot PR Finisher, gh-aw Firewall Release Integrator and 47 more.
How do I install all skills from github/gh-aw?
Run npx skills add github/gh-aw in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.