Workflow Skill Extraction Report: top 3 shared-component opportunities

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Method

Analyzed /tmp/gh-aw/agent/workflow-index.json (299 workflows: engines - copilot 87, codex 70, claude 20, pi 12, others 12, unspecified 95) plus targeted greps across .github/workflows/*.md frontmatter and prompt bodies. Cross-checked candidates against the 93 files already in .github/workflows/shared/ to avoid duplicating existing bundles (e.g. daily-issue-base.md, daily-pr-base.md, otlp.md, reporting.md, default-ai-credits-pricing.md).

Opportunities identified (by priority)

High priority

1. network: allowed: [defaults] boilerplate - 17 workflows repeat the identical 3-line block verbatim, and roughly 150 more workflows have a network: block with only minor variation. The simple form is copy-pasted with no parameterization need, so it is a safe, mechanical extraction.
Recommendation: extract shared/network-defaults.md.

2. max-daily-ai-credits: 10000 cap - 75 of 299 workflows (25%) set this exact literal value with no variation, almost always immediately followed by a permissions: block. This is the single most duplicated scalar frontmatter setting in the repo, more common than any shared import except otlp/reporting.
Recommendation: extract shared/max-daily-ai-credits-10000.md documenting the value as a named convention, after confirming how scalar frontmatter merges through imports:.

3. skip-if-match daily/scheduled dedup pattern - 17 daily/scheduled workflows (ab-testing-advisor, architecture-guardian, daily-agent-of-the-day-blog-writer, daily-go-test-parallelizer, daily-harness-experiment-proposer, daily-safe-output-optimizer, daily-trajectory-grader-implementer, daily-windows-defender-scan, daily-yamllint-fixer, deployment-incident-monitor, feature-grower, issue-monster, layout-spec-maintainer, purelock, spec-librarian, unbloat-docs, windows-grower) implement the same "skip run if a matching open issue/PR already exists" idiom with only the search query/label varying. This isn't bundled into daily-issue-base.md/daily-pr-base.md today, so each workflow re-derives its own query syntax and risks drift.
Recommendation: add a parameterized skip-if-match recipe or extend daily-issue-base.md/daily-pr-base.md with an optional dedup-query input.

Medium priority

4. Repeated inline "MUST call noop" instructions - 24 workflows hand-write their own noop/safe-output completion reminder text in the prompt body with varying wording, while only 2 workflows import the existing shared/noop-reminder.md. This duplicates an already-built shared component that simply isn't being adopted widely.
Not filed as a new issue - flagged for follow-up to promote shared/noop-reminder.md adoption instead of building a new component.

Impact summary

#	Recommendation	Workflows affected	Priority
1	shared/network-defaults.md	17 exact match, ~150 with a network block	High
2	shared/max-daily-ai-credits-10000.md convention	75	High
3	skip-if-match dedup recipe	17	High
4	noop-reminder adoption (existing component)	24 candidates, 2 adopted	Medium, no new issue

Issues created

Up to 3 issues filed for recommendations 1-3 above.

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• expires on Sep 16, 2026, 7:55 PM UTC-08:00