Agentic Workflows are AI-powered repository automations that run coding agents in GitHub Actions. Defined in markdown with natural language instructions, they enable event-triggered and scheduled automation with built-in guardrails and security-first design.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on how to contribute new workflows, improve existing ones, and share your use cases.
What's Included:
- Each workflow is a single
.mdfile with YAML frontmatter and natural language instructions - Workflows are compiled to
.lock.ymlGitHub Actions files viagh aw compile - Workflows follow the GitHub Agentic Workflows specification
To Install:
- Install the
gh awCLI extension:gh extension install github/gh-aw - Copy the workflow
.mdfile to your repository's.github/workflows/directory - Compile with
gh aw compileto generate the.lock.ymlfile - Commit both the
.mdand.lock.ymlfiles
To Activate/Use:
- Workflows run automatically based on their configured triggers (schedules, events, slash commands)
- Use
gh aw run <workflow>to trigger a manual run - Monitor runs with
gh aw statusandgh aw logs
When to Use:
- Automate issue triage and labeling
- Generate daily status reports
- Maintain documentation automatically
- Run scheduled code quality checks
- Respond to slash commands in issues and PRs
- Orchestrate multi-step repository automation
| Name | Description | Triggers |
|---|---|---|
| Daily Issues Report | Generates a daily summary of open issues and recent activity as a GitHub issue | schedule |
| OSPO Contributors Report | Monthly contributor activity metrics across an organization's repositories. | schedule, workflow_dispatch |
| OSPO Organization Health Report | Comprehensive weekly health report for a GitHub organization. Surfaces stale issues/PRs, merge time analysis, contributor leaderboards, and actionable items needing human attention. | schedule, workflow_dispatch |
| OSPO Stale Repository Report | Identifies inactive repositories in your organization and generates an archival recommendation report. | schedule, workflow_dispatch |
| OSS Release Compliance Checker | Analyzes a target repository against open source release requirements and posts a detailed compliance report as an issue comment. | issues, workflow_dispatch |
| Relevance Check | Slash command to evaluate whether an issue or pull request is still relevant to the project | slash_command, roles |
| Relevance Summary | Manually triggered workflow that summarizes all open issues and PRs with a /relevance-check response into a single issue | workflow_dispatch |