About
What is GitHub Agentic Workflows?
Section titled “What is GitHub Agentic Workflows?”GitHub Agentic Workflows (gh-aw) is an open-source GitHub CLI extension developed by GitHub that lets you write agentic AI workflows in natural language markdown and run them as GitHub Actions.
Write a markdown file describing what you want your AI agent to do — then gh aw compile turns it into a valid GitHub Actions workflow that runs with strong security guardrails.
Project
Section titled “Project”- Repository: github/gh-aw
- License: MIT
- Install:
gh extension install github/gh-aw - Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
GitHub Agentic Workflows is built and maintained by the GitHub Next team at GitHub.
Community
Section titled “Community”- GitHub Discussions — questions, ideas, and announcements
- Community Feedback — share your experience
- GitHub Next Discord — real-time chat
Contributing
Section titled “Contributing”Contributions are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup and guidelines.
Security
Section titled “Security”For security vulnerability reports, see SECURITY.md.