Workflow Authoring

by dotnet

Workflow Authoring is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by dotnet in skills.

5.2K stars384 forkson dotnet/skillsAdded 2026/08/16Repository updated 2026/08/15

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Install Workflow Authoring

Copy Workflow Authoring 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/dotnet/skills/tree/main/.agents/skills/authoring-github-workflows ~/.claude/skills/authoring-github-workflows

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/dotnet/skills.git

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

In this catalog

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

What Workflow Authoring does

Workflow Authoring teaches how to write GitHub Actions workflow YAML that is syntactically valid for GitHub Actions, not just YAML. Use it when editing or reviewing .github/workflows files, writing expressions with ${{ }}, quoting scalars, or diagnosing workflow file issues with actionlint.

Workflow Authoring is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Workflow Authoring comes from a repository tagged agent-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Authoring GitHub Actions Workflows Safely

GitHub Actions workflow files are YAML, but valid YAML is not the same as a valid workflow. A workflow can parse cleanly with yaml.safe_load (or a casual review) yet still be rejected by GitHub Actions at load time — producing the opaque failure "This run likely failed because of a workflow file issue" with zero jobs started. This skill teaches the YAML-vs-Actions traps (the #-as-comment trap above all), how to quote expression scalars correctly, and how to validate with actionlint before merge.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Workflow Authoring provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

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Frequently asked about Workflow Authoring

What else does dotnet publish alongside Workflow Authoring?
Workflow Authoring is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from dotnet/skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include .NET P/Invoke, ASP.NET Core Web API and Agentic Workflows. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Workflow Authoring does, and is maintained by dotnet in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the dotnet/skills page.
How does Workflow Authoring compare to other DevOps skills?
Workflow Authoring ranks #154 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 Workflow Authoring against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.