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With GitHub Agentic Workflows, maintainers from Home Assistant to CNCF to technical communities like F# are already increasing quality, crunching technical debt and making communities more productive. Get started with agentic repository automation today github.blog/ai-and-ml/auto…

With GitHub Agentic Workflows, you, the maintainer, are in control of the agentic automation used in your repository. You decide. None? Some? All-in? You can tailor the automation to your needs, your priorities. Get started today: github.blog/ai-and-ml/auto…

skahessay.dev/posts/the-new-… "The New OSS" by @samuelkahessay A shift from coding to diagnosis? Agents do the coding? Bold claims for changing times!

Start Your Day With Code That’s Better 🌤️ * A performance improvement ⚡ * A feature request analysis 🔍 * An engineering improvement 🛠️ Regular improvements to the software you maintain, delivered to your repos with GitHub Agentic Workflows. dsyme.net/2026/03/08/sta…

Learn how to update a multi-task GitHub Agentic Workflow with "weighted task selection" - adapting the automatic task selection according to the state of the repository. dsyme.net/2026/03/07/add…

The latest docs for the Repo Assist automation are here! github.com/githubnext/age… Please send feedback via issues there. You can edit and adjust the workflow to your needs and priorities.

Crunch the technical debt in your repo with GitHub Agentic Workflows. Repository automation --> made real today. > gh aw add-wizard githubnext/agentics/repo-assist dsyme.net/2026/02/25/rep…

What GitHub shipped: AI agents in technical preview that understand repo context and execute autonomously. Not a chatbot you ask to write code. An agent that monitors your repo, manages PRs, handles dependency updates, triages issues, and runs maintenance — without being prompted. The TechCrunch headline is "GitHub Tests AI Agents to Handle Repository Upkeep." The actual story is a lot bigger.

@mg @kdaigle @github @claudeai Well, tweets from some dev at @AnthropicAI notwithstanding, their ToS is pretty clear: no OAuth tokens may be used in "any other product, tool, or service". We had working support for OAuth tokens! But we gotta delete that until the ToS permits this sort of thing. Alas.

@mg @kdaigle @github @claudeai True! We'll try it out, but the true utopia should be "you don't need to tell it about your tokens ever". Just like how every actions run gets a GITHUB_TOKEN injected, we'd love for all of this to be zero-config.

Triaging issues, updating dependencies, code quality, debugging... what if all that maintenance work could run autonomously in @GitHub Actions? You write it once in markdown and commit it. Well, the @githubnext team got to cooking and...

I've been using #AgenticWorkflows for keeping the #Copilot #Java SDK in sync with the upstream official SDKs. Check out today's announcement on GitHub Agentic Workflows so you can build yours too. github.blog/ai-and-ml/auto…

@github When I'm struggling with maintenance, I end up spending way more time than I should. The Agentic Workflows sound like a game changer for keeping on top of things.

@GitHub Agentic Workflows now in technical preview. Think: markdown prompts that compile into GitHub Actions. You design it once with constrained outputs, permissions, and defense-in-depth security against prompt injection. It's reviewable, reversible + built on GH primitives. github.blog/ai-and-ml/auto…

Markdown-first repo automation lands in technical preview. • Define issue triage, PR review, CI debug, maintenance, in Markdown. • Run gh aw to compile to standard Actions that use Copilot CLI or other agents. Check out Agentic Workflows → github.blog/changelog/2026…

GitHub Agentic Workflows technical preview is here! I blogged my early hands-on experience a few months back 👇 thomasthornton.cloud/my-experience-… Natural language + GitHub Actions = 🚀 #GitHub #DevOps #AgenticAI

And we're particularly excited about using this to help OSS maintainers. When we showed this to @Frenck (the maintainer of Home Assistant), he wrote a workflow that reads the bugs and figures out if they originate in the HA codebase or not. True noise elimination for OSS.

Automatically investigate CI failures and proactively propose fixes github.github.com/gh-aw/blog/202…

Deliver daily PRs for code improvement, hardening, and cleanup github.github.com/gh-aw/blog/202…

Automatically summarize, label and route new issues github.github.com/gh-aw/blog/202…