Official agent skill

Agentic Workflows

by github in github/gh-aw

Route gh-aw design, creation, diagnosis, patching, active debugging, and upgrade requests to the right strategies.

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Install Agentic Workflows

skills CLI
$ npx skills add github/gh-aw --skill agentic-workflows -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install github/gh-aw agentic-workflows --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/gh-aw.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/agentic-workflows .claude/skills/agentic-workflows && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
agentic-workflows
GitHub stars
5.3k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
330 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
52
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Route gh-aw design, creation, diagnosis, patching, active debugging, and upgrade requests to the right strategies.

  • Development work in your project
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Agentic Workflows is an agent skill from github/gh-aw, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Route gh-aw design, creation, diagnosis, patching, active debugging, and upgrade requests to the right strategies.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development. It works with GitHub and Model Context Protocol. The repository describes itself as: GitHub Agentic Workflows. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Development work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/agentic-workflows”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit eb63040. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Agentic Workflows loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 33 tokens; SKILL.md has 330 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~33
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from github/gh-aw at commit eb63040, republished under its MIT licence (© github). 330 words, ~1,283 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
agentic-workflows
description
Route gh-aw design, creation, diagnosis, patching, active debugging, and upgrade requests to the right strategies.

Agentic Workflows Router

Use this skill when a user asks to design, create, update, debug, or upgrade GitHub Agentic Workflows in this repository.

This skill is a dispatcher: identify the task type, load the matching workflow prompt/skill file, and follow it directly. Keep responses concise and ask a clarifying question if the correct prompt is unclear.

Repository overlay (optional):

  • If .github/aw/instructions.md exists, load it with @.github/aw/instructions.md after loading the matched prompt/skill.
  • Precedence: repository overlay instructions override upstream defaults when they conflict.

Read only the files you need: Load these files from github/gh-aw (they are not available locally).

  • .github/aw/action-container-substitutions.md
  • .github/aw/agent-runtime-instructions.md
  • .github/aw/agentic-chat.md
  • .github/aw/agentic-workflows-mcp.md
  • .github/aw/asciicharts.md
  • .github/aw/campaign.md
  • .github/aw/charts-trending.md
  • .github/aw/charts.md
  • .github/aw/cli-commands.md
  • .github/aw/compat.md
  • .github/aw/configure-agentic-engine.md
  • .github/aw/context.md
  • .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow-trigger-details.md
  • .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md
  • .github/aw/create-shared-agentic-workflow.md
  • .github/aw/debug-agentic-workflow.md
  • .github/aw/dependabot.md
  • .github/aw/deployment-status.md
  • .github/aw/designer-mappings.md
  • .github/aw/designer.md
  • .github/aw/drive-memory.md
  • .github/aw/enclaves.md
  • .github/aw/evals.md
  • .github/aw/experiments.md
  • .github/aw/github-agentic-workflows.md
  • .github/aw/github-mcp-server-pagination.md
  • .github/aw/github-mcp-server-tools.md
  • .github/aw/github-mcp-server.md
  • .github/aw/instructions.md
  • .github/aw/intent.md
  • .github/aw/jobs.md
  • .github/aw/linter-workflows.md
  • .github/aw/llms.md
  • .github/aw/loop.md
  • .github/aw/lsp.md
  • .github/aw/maintainer.md
  • .github/aw/mcp-clis.md
  • .github/aw/memory-stateful-patterns.md
  • .github/aw/memory.md
  • .github/aw/messages.md
  • .github/aw/multi-agent-research.md
  • .github/aw/network.md
  • .github/aw/optimize-agentic-workflow.md
  • .github/aw/patterns.md
  • .github/aw/playwright.md
  • .github/aw/pr-reviewer.md
  • .github/aw/release-workflow.md
  • .github/aw/report.md
  • .github/aw/reuse.md
  • .github/aw/safe-outputs-automation.md
  • .github/aw/safe-outputs-content.md
  • .github/aw/safe-outputs-management.md
  • .github/aw/safe-outputs-runtime.md
  • .github/aw/safe-outputs.md
  • .github/aw/serena-tool.md
  • .github/aw/shared-safe-jobs.md
  • .github/aw/skills.md
  • .github/aw/subagents.md
  • .github/aw/syntax-agentic.md
  • .github/aw/syntax-core.md
  • .github/aw/syntax-engine.md
  • .github/aw/syntax-tools-imports.md
  • .github/aw/syntax.md
  • .github/aw/test-coverage.md
  • .github/aw/test-expression.md
  • .github/aw/token-optimization-caching-budgets.md
  • .github/aw/token-optimization-observability.md
  • .github/aw/token-optimization.md
  • .github/aw/triggers.md
  • .github/aw/update-agentic-workflow.md
  • .github/aw/upgrade-agentic-workflows.md
  • .github/aw/visual-regression.md
  • .github/aw/work-queue.md
  • .github/aw/workflow-constraints.md
  • .github/aw/workflow-editing.md
  • .github/aw/workflow-patterns.md

After loading the matching workflow prompt or skill, follow it directly:

  • Design workflows from scratch via interview: .github/aw/designer.md
  • Create new workflows: .github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md
  • Configure or add declarative engines: .github/aw/configure-agentic-engine.md
  • Update existing workflows: .github/aw/update-agentic-workflow.md
  • Diagnose, patch, audit, or actively debug workflows: .github/aw/debug-agentic-workflow.md (local-first strategy, evidence triage and live gates)
  • Upgrade workflows and fix deprecations: .github/aw/upgrade-agentic-workflows.md
  • Create shared components or MCP wrappers: .github/aw/create-shared-agentic-workflow.md
  • Create report-generating workflows: .github/aw/report.md
  • Fix Dependabot manifest PRs: .github/aw/dependabot.md
  • Analyze coverage workflows: .github/aw/test-coverage.md
  • Render compact markdown charts: .github/aw/asciicharts.md
  • Map CLI commands to MCP usage: .github/aw/cli-commands.md
  • Choose workflow architecture and patterns: .github/aw/patterns.md
  • Orchestrate durable work with a work queue (dispatcher/worker roles or queue inspection): .github/aw/work-queue.md
  • Optimize token usage and cost: .github/aw/token-optimization.md
  • Design long-running multi-agent research workflows: .github/aw/multi-agent-research.md
  • Add skills or agent plugins requested by the user (skills: / plugins: frontmatter, never on-the-fly installs): .github/aw/skills.md

When the task involves OTEL, OTLP, traces, observability backends, or telemetry-driven analysis, also read and follow skills/otel-queries/SKILL.md after loading the matching workflow prompt or skill.

© github, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .github/skills/agentic-workflows of github/gh-aw.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit eb63040

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Questions about Agentic Workflows

What does Agentic Workflows do?

Route gh-aw design, creation, diagnosis, patching, active debugging, and upgrade requests to the right strategies. Agentic Workflows is an agent skill from github/gh-aw, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Route gh-aw design, creation, diagnosis, patching, active debugging, and upgrade requests to the right strategies.

When should I use Agentic Workflows?

Agentic Workflows fits situations like: development work in your project.

How do I install Agentic Workflows in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add github/gh-aw --skill agentic-workflows -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.github/skills/agentic-workflows in github/gh-aw) into .claude/skills/agentic-workflows in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Agentic Workflows in Codex?

Run `npx skills add github/gh-aw --skill agentic-workflows -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.github/skills/agentic-workflows in github/gh-aw) into .agents/skills/agentic-workflows in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Agentic Workflows in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add github/gh-aw --skill agentic-workflows -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/agentic-workflows, .gemini/skills/agentic-workflows, .github/skills/agentic-workflows and .opencode/skills/agentic-workflows in your project.

What does Agentic Workflows need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Agentic Workflows is instructions for the agent only.

Does Agentic Workflows access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Agentic Workflows safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Agentic Workflows use?

Agentic Workflows is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Agentic Workflows use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Agentic Workflows?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Agentic Workflows: Library Documentation Seeker (withkynam/vibecode-pro-max-kit, 1.1k stars), GitDiagram Repository Overview (ahmedkhaleel2004/gitdiagram, 18k stars), Herdr Issue Triage (herdrdev/herdr, 43k stars) and Plane Release Notes Generator (makeplane/plane, 60k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Agentic Workflows?

github (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in github/gh-aw, which has 5,350 GitHub stars. The repository holds 52 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: github/gh-aw on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.