Agentic Workflows

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Agentic Workflows is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by github in gh-aw.

4.9K stars495 forkson github/gh-awAdded 2026/08/16Repository updated 2026/08/16

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Install Agentic Workflows

Copy Agentic Workflows into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/github/gh-aw ~/.claude/skills/gh-aw

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/github/gh-aw.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: SKILL.md in github/gh-aw
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/gh-aw
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Agentic Workflows does

Agentic Workflows compiles Markdown-defined AI agent jobs into GitHub Actions, so developers can define AI-powered repository automation and run AI agents securely through GitHub Actions for reasoning tasks.

Agentic Workflows is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Agentic Workflows comes from a repository tagged actions, cai, ci, claude-code and codex.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

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.

Frequently asked about Agentic Workflows

What else does github publish alongside Agentic Workflows?
Agentic Workflows is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from github/gh-aw, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AWF Release Integrator, Agent Session CLI and Agent Task CLI. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Agentic Workflows does, and is maintained by github in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the github/gh-aw page.
How does Agentic Workflows compare to other DevOps skills?
Agentic Workflows ranks #162 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Agentic Workflows against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.