[skill-extractor] Workflow Skill Extraction Report — Top 3 Shared Component Opportunities

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Overview

Full analysis of 225 agentic workflows (.github/workflows/*.md) to identify high-impact shared component opportunities. The repository already has 63 shared components covering common patterns (observability, reporting, data fetches, MCP servers). This report focuses on frontmatter configuration clusters that remain unextracted.

Method: Analyzed the workflow index (workflow-index.json) for duplicate frontmatter patterns — tool configurations, feature flags, and permission sets — then validated candidates by sampling actual workflow files. Only patterns with zero coverage from existing shared components were surfaced.

Key Findings

Pattern	Workflows Affected	Existing Coverage
cli-proxy + github: gh-proxy + toolsets: [default]	63	None (shared/gh.md covers mode only)
strict: true + features: copilot-requests: true	29	None
agentic-workflows: + cli-proxy + timeout: 300	19	None

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🥇 #1 — shared/github-proxy-default.md (HIGH)

63 workflows manually inline the same 4-line tool configuration. The existing shared/gh.md provides only mode: gh-proxy without cli-proxy or toolsets, so workflows can't leverage it for this purpose.

• Savings: ~252 lines across 63 workflows
• Benefit: Standardize default GitHub proxy setup; update in one place if mode changes
• Complexity: Low — pure frontmatter extraction
• Issue: See linked issue rejig docs #1

Sample workflows affected

tidy.md, layout-spec-maintainer.md, daily-workflow-updater.md, craft.md, dependabot-worker.md, hourly-ci-cleaner.md, necromancer.md, delight.md, daily-geo-optimizer.md, stale-pr-cleanup.md, mergefest.md, draft-pr-cleanup.md ... and 51 more.

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🥈 #2 — shared/strict-copilot.md (MEDIUM-HIGH)

29 workflows always co-locate strict: true with features: copilot-requests: true. These act as a quality+cost guardrail pair — they appear together 100% of the time and no existing shared component provides either.

• Savings: ~87 lines across 29 workflows
• Benefit: Single place to manage the Copilot quality baseline and feature enablement
• Complexity: Low — 3-line frontmatter bundle
• Issue: See linked issue Add workflow: githubnext/agentics/weekly-research #2

Sample workflows affected

ab-testing-advisor.md, archie.md, artifacts-summary.md, auto-triage-issues.md, brave.md, claude-code-user-docs-review.md, copilot-cli-deep-research.md, daily-architecture-diagram.md, daily-cli-performance.md, daily-compiler-quality.md ... and 19 more.

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🥉 #3 — shared/agentic-workflows-tool.md (MEDIUM)

19 workflows use the agentic-workflows MCP tool for run introspection. 15 of them always pair it with cli-proxy: true and timeout: 300. This is a cohesive analysis stack with no shared component.

• Savings: ~76 lines across 19 workflows
• Benefit: Tune timeout for log retrieval in one place; clear documentation of the analysis tool stack
• Complexity: Low — 4-line frontmatter bundle
• Issue: See linked issue Add workflow: githubnext/agentics/weekly-research #3

Sample workflows affected

api-consumption-report.md, audit-workflows.md, agent-persona-explorer.md, cloclo.md, daily-cli-tools-tester.md, daily-firewall-report.md, mcp-inspector.md, q.md, smoke-copilot.md, weekly-blog-post-writer.md ... and 9 more.

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Combined Impact

#	Shared Component	Workflows	Lines Saved	Priority
1	shared/github-proxy-default.md	63	~252	High
2	shared/strict-copilot.md	29	~87	Medium-High
3	shared/agentic-workflows-tool.md	19	~76	Medium
Σ		111 distinct	~415 lines

Existing Coverage (Already Well-Served)

• shared/observability-otlp.md — 224/225 workflows ✅
• shared/reporting.md — 48 workflows ✅
• shared/github-guard-policy.md — 17 workflows ✅
• shared/mcp/serena-go.md — 13 workflows ✅
• shared/daily-audit-base.md, shared/daily-issue-base.md — scheduling patterns ✅
• shared/repo-memory-standard.md — memory patterns ✅

References: §25842370796

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