dotnet · jonathanpeppers · Apr 17, 2026 · Apr 17, 2026
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+.github/workflows/*.lock.yml linguist-generated=true merge=ours
@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+---
+description: GitHub Agentic Workflows (gh-aw) - Create, debug, and upgrade AI-powered workflows with intelligent prompt routing
+disable-model-invocation: true
+---
+
+# GitHub Agentic Workflows Agent
+
+This agent helps you work with **GitHub Agentic Workflows (gh-aw)**, a CLI extension for creating AI-powered workflows in natural language using markdown files.
+
+## What This Agent Does
+
+This is a **dispatcher agent** that routes your request to the appropriate specialized prompt based on your task:
+
+- **Creating new workflows**: Routes to `create` prompt
+- **Updating existing workflows**: Routes to `update` prompt
+- **Debugging workflows**: Routes to `debug` prompt  
+- **Upgrading workflows**: Routes to `upgrade-agentic-workflows` prompt
+- **Creating report-generating workflows**: Routes to `report` prompt — consult this whenever the workflow posts status updates, audits, analyses, or any structured output as issues, discussions, or comments
+- **Creating shared components**: Routes to `create-shared-agentic-workflow` prompt
+- **Fixing Dependabot PRs**: Routes to `dependabot` prompt — use this when Dependabot opens PRs that modify generated manifest files (`.github/workflows/package.json`, `.github/workflows/requirements.txt`, `.github/workflows/go.mod`). Never merge those PRs directly; instead update the source `.md` files and rerun `gh aw compile --dependabot` to bundle all fixes
+- **Analyzing test coverage**: Routes to `test-coverage` prompt — consult this whenever the workflow reads, analyzes, or reports on test coverage data from PRs or CI runs
+
+Workflows may optionally include:
+
+- **Project tracking / monitoring** (GitHub Projects updates, status reporting)
+- **Orchestration / coordination** (one workflow assigning agents or dispatching and coordinating other workflows)
+
+## Files This Applies To
+
+- Workflow files: `.github/workflows/*.md` and `.github/workflows/**/*.md`
+- Workflow lock files: `.github/workflows/*.lock.yml`
+- Shared components: `.github/workflows/shared/*.md`
+- Configuration: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.68.3/.github/aw/github-agentic-workflows.md
+
+## Problems This Solves
+
+- **Workflow Creation**: Design secure, validated agentic workflows with proper triggers, tools, and permissions
+- **Workflow Debugging**: Analyze logs, identify missing tools, investigate failures, and fix configuration issues
+- **Version Upgrades**: Migrate workflows to new gh-aw versions, apply codemods, fix breaking changes
+- **Component Design**: Create reusable shared workflow components that wrap MCP servers
+
+## How to Use
+
+When you interact with this agent, it will:
+
+1. **Understand your intent** - Determine what kind of task you're trying to accomplish
+2. **Route to the right prompt** - Load the specialized prompt file for your task
+3. **Execute the task** - Follow the detailed instructions in the loaded prompt
+
+## Available Prompts
+
+### Create New Workflow
+**Load when**: User wants to create a new workflow from scratch, add automation, or design a workflow that doesn't exist yet
+
+**Prompt file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.68.3/.github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md
+
+**Use cases**:
+- "Create a workflow that triages issues"
+- "I need a workflow to label pull requests"
+- "Design a weekly research automation"
+
+### Update Existing Workflow  
+**Load when**: User wants to modify, improve, or refactor an existing workflow
+
+**Prompt file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.68.3/.github/aw/update-agentic-workflow.md
+
+**Use cases**:
+- "Add web-fetch tool to the issue-classifier workflow"
+- "Update the PR reviewer to use discussions instead of issues"
+- "Improve the prompt for the weekly-research workflow"
+
+### Debug Workflow  
+**Load when**: User needs to investigate, audit, debug, or understand a workflow, troubleshoot issues, analyze logs, or fix errors
+
+**Prompt file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.68.3/.github/aw/debug-agentic-workflow.md
+
+**Use cases**:
+- "Why is this workflow failing?"
+- "Analyze the logs for workflow X"
+- "Investigate missing tool calls in run #12345"
+
+### Upgrade Agentic Workflows
+**Load when**: User wants to upgrade workflows to a new gh-aw version or fix deprecations
+
+**Prompt file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.68.3/.github/aw/upgrade-agentic-workflows.md
+
+**Use cases**:
+- "Upgrade all workflows to the latest version"
+- "Fix deprecated fields in workflows"
+- "Apply breaking changes from the new release"
+
+### Create a Report-Generating Workflow
+**Load when**: The workflow being created or updated produces reports — recurring status updates, audit summaries, analyses, or any structured output posted as a GitHub issue, discussion, or comment
+
+**Prompt file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.68.3/.github/aw/report.md
+
+**Use cases**:
+- "Create a weekly CI health report"
+- "Post a daily security audit to Discussions"
+- "Add a status update comment to open PRs"
+
+### Create Shared Agentic Workflow
+**Load when**: User wants to create a reusable workflow component or wrap an MCP server
+
+**Prompt file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.68.3/.github/aw/create-shared-agentic-workflow.md
+
+**Use cases**:
+- "Create a shared component for Notion integration"
+- "Wrap the Slack MCP server as a reusable component"
+- "Design a shared workflow for database queries"
+
+### Fix Dependabot PRs
+**Load when**: User needs to close or fix open Dependabot PRs that update dependencies in generated manifest files (`.github/workflows/package.json`, `.github/workflows/requirements.txt`, `.github/workflows/go.mod`)
+
+**Prompt file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.68.3/.github/aw/dependabot.md
+
+**Use cases**:
+- "Fix the open Dependabot PRs for npm dependencies"
+- "Bundle and close the Dependabot PRs for workflow dependencies"
+- "Update @playwright/test to fix the Dependabot PR"
+
+### Analyze Test Coverage
+**Load when**: The workflow reads, analyzes, or reports test coverage — whether triggered by a PR, a schedule, or a slash command. Always consult this prompt before designing the coverage data strategy.
+
+**Prompt file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.68.3/.github/aw/test-coverage.md
+
+**Use cases**:
+- "Create a workflow that comments coverage on PRs"
+- "Analyze coverage trends over time"
+- "Add a coverage gate that blocks PRs below a threshold"
+
+## Instructions
+
+When a user interacts with you:
+
+1. **Identify the task type** from the user's request
+2. **Load the appropriate prompt** from the GitHub repository URLs listed above
+3. **Follow the loaded prompt's instructions** exactly
+4. **If uncertain**, ask clarifying questions to determine the right prompt
+
+## Quick Reference
+
+```bash
+# Initialize repository for agentic workflows
+gh aw init
+
+# Generate the lock file for a workflow
+gh aw compile [workflow-name]
+
+# Debug workflow runs
+gh aw logs [workflow-name]
+gh aw audit <run-id>
+
+# Upgrade workflows
+gh aw fix --write
+gh aw compile --validate
+```
+
+## Key Features of gh-aw
+
+- **Natural Language Workflows**: Write workflows in markdown with YAML frontmatter
+- **AI Engine Support**: Copilot, Claude, Codex, or custom engines
+- **MCP Server Integration**: Connect to Model Context Protocol servers for tools
+- **Safe Outputs**: Structured communication between AI and GitHub API
+- **Strict Mode**: Security-first validation and sandboxing
+- **Shared Components**: Reusable workflow building blocks
+- **Repo Memory**: Persistent git-backed storage for agents
+- **Sandboxed Execution**: All workflows run in the Agent Workflow Firewall (AWF) sandbox, enabling full `bash` and `edit` tools by default
+
+## Important Notes
+
+- Always reference the instructions file at https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.68.3/.github/aw/github-agentic-workflows.md for complete documentation
+- Use the MCP tool `agentic-workflows` when running in GitHub Copilot Cloud
+- Workflows must be compiled to `.lock.yml` files before running in GitHub Actions
+- **Bash tools are enabled by default** - Don't restrict bash commands unnecessarily since workflows are sandboxed by the AWF
+- Follow security best practices: minimal permissions, explicit network access, no template injection
+- **Network configuration**: Use ecosystem identifiers (`node`, `python`, `go`, etc.) or explicit FQDNs in `network.allowed`. Bare shorthands like `npm` or `pypi` are **not** valid. See https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.68.3/.github/aw/network.md for the full list of valid ecosystem identifiers and domain patterns.
+- **Single-file output**: When creating a workflow, produce exactly **one** workflow `.md` file. Do not create separate documentation files (architecture docs, runbooks, usage guides, etc.). If documentation is needed, add a brief `## Usage` section inside the workflow file itself.
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{
+  "entries": {
+    "actions/github-script@v9": {
+      "repo": "actions/github-script",
+      "version": "v9",
+      "sha": "373c709c69115d41ff229c7e5df9f8788daa9553"
+    },
+    "github/gh-aw-actions/setup@v0.68.3": {
+      "repo": "github/gh-aw-actions/setup",
+      "version": "v0.68.3",
+      "sha": "ba90f2186d7ad780ec640f364005fa24e797b360"
+    }
+  }
+}
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: android-reviewer
 description: >-
   Review dotnet/android PRs against established rules. Trigger on "review this PR",
   a GitHub PR URL, or code review requests. Checks MSBuild, nullable, async, security,
-  error handling, formatting, performance, native code, and posts a review via gh CLI.
+  error handling, formatting, performance, native code.
 ---
 
 # Android PR Reviewer
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ Flag severity clearly in every comment:
 
 ## Workflow
 
-### 1. Parse the PR URL
+### 1. Identify the PR
 
-Extract `owner`, `repo`, `pr_number` from the URL.
+If triggered from an agentic workflow (slash command on a PR), use the PR from the event context. Otherwise, extract `owner`, `repo`, `pr_number` from a URL or reference provided by the user.
 Formats: `https://github.com/{owner}/{repo}/pull/{number}`, `{owner}/{repo}#{number}`, or bare number (defaults to `dotnet/android`).
 
 ### 2. Gather context (before reading PR description)
@@ -89,36 +89,16 @@ Constraints:
 - **Don't flag what CI catches.** Skip compiler errors, formatting the linter will catch, etc.
 - **Avoid false positives.** Verify the concern actually applies given the full context. If unsure, phrase it as a question rather than a firm claim.
 
-### 7. Build the review JSON
+### 7. Post the review
 
-Write a temp JSON file:
+Post your findings directly:
 
-```json
-{
-  "event": "COMMENT",
-  "body": "## 🤖 AI Review Summary\n\n**Verdict**: ✅ LGTM | ⚠️ Needs Changes | ❌ Reject\n\nFound **N issues**: ...\n\n- ❌ **Category**: description (`file:line`)\n- ⚠️ **Category**: description (`file:line`)\n\n👍 Positive callouts.\n\n---\n_Review generated by android-reviewer from [review guidelines](https://github.com/dotnet/android/blob/main/.github/skills/android-reviewer/references/review-rules.md)._",
-  "comments": [
-    {
-      "path": "src/Example.cs",
-      "line": 42,
-      "side": "RIGHT",
-      "body": "🤖 ❌ **Error handling** — Every `catch` should capture the `Exception` and log it.\n\n_Rule: No empty catch blocks (Postmortem `#11`)_"
-    }
-  ]
-}
-```
-
-If no issues found **and CI is green**, submit with at most one or two 💡 suggestions and a positive summary. Truly trivial PRs (dependency bumps, 1-line typo fixes) may have empty `comments`.
+- **Inline comments** on specific lines of the diff with the severity, category, and explanation.
+- **Review summary** with the overall verdict (✅ LGTM, ⚠️ Needs Changes, or ❌ Reject), issue counts by severity, and positive callouts.
 
-**Copilot-authored PRs:** If the PR author is `Copilot` (the GitHub Copilot coding agent) and the verdict is ⚠️ Needs Changes or ❌ Reject, prefix the review `body` with `@copilot ` so the comment automatically triggers Copilot to address the feedback. Do NOT add the prefix for ✅ LGTM verdicts.
-
-### 8. Submit as a single batch
-
-```powershell
-dotnet run {skill-dir}/scripts/submit_review.cs {owner} {repo} {number} {path-to-json} [--dry-run]
-```
+If no issues found **and CI is green**, submit with at most one or two 💡 suggestions and a positive summary. Truly trivial PRs (dependency bumps, 1-line typo fixes) may have no inline comments.
 
-The script validates structure (required fields, 🤖 prefix, positive line numbers) then calls `gh api`. Pass `--dry-run` to validate and print the review JSON without submitting to GitHub. Delete the temp file after success.
+**Copilot-authored PRs:** If the PR author is `Copilot` (the GitHub Copilot coding agent) and the verdict is ⚠️ Needs Changes or ❌ Reject, prefix the review summary with `@copilot ` so the comment automatically triggers Copilot to address the feedback. Do NOT add the prefix for ✅ LGTM verdicts.
 
 ## Comment format