GitHub Agentic Workflows

github/github agentic workflows

GitHub Agentic Workflows (`gh-aw`) is a GitHub CLI extension for writing Agentic Workflows in markdown and compiling them to GitHub Actions.

109118k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

6648

files

ships runnable scripts

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

4864

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/github/gh-aw --skill GitHub Agentic Workflows

The instruction itself

2 sections, as written by the author

Install

gh extension install github/gh-aw

If failed,

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/install-gh-aw.sh | bash

Load

Load https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/main/.github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.md to learn how to create/update/debug/optimize Agentic Workflows.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take github/github agentic workflows from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.