Add squad-game-planner daily agentic workflow by Copilot · Pull Request #50055 · github/gh-aw

Copilot · 2026-08-03T17:57:12Z

Adds a daily agentic workflow that uses Squad multi-agent planning to design a new game concept and file the plan as tracked, expiring GitHub issues.

Workflow

.github/workflows/squad-game-planner.md (+ compiled .lock.yml), triggered on schedule: daily and workflow_dispatch
Engine: copilot with agent: squad and copilot-sdk: true — Squad orchestrates its own sub-agents heavily, so the Copilot SDK sidecar is enabled
Permissions kept read-only (contents: read, issues: read) plus copilot-requests: write for Copilot to authenticate with ${{ github.token }}

Squad bootstrap

.github/scripts/setup-squad.sh installs a pinned release (@bradygaster/squad-cli@0.11.0) via npm and runs squad init --preset default (idempotent) to scaffold .squad/ and .github/agents/squad.agent.md
Wired in as a pre-agent steps: block (Node.js setup + this script) so the repo is fully initialized before Copilot launches with --agent squad

Issue lifecycle

safe-outputs.create-issue labels every issue squad:plan, uses group: true to file a parent issue with linked sub-issues per workstream
expires: 1 auto-closes issues after one day
close-older-issues: true closes issues from the previous run so the tracker only reflects the latest plan

safe-outputs:
  create-issue:
    title-prefix: "[squad:plan] "
    labels: [squad:plan]
    group: true
    expires: 1
    close-older-issues: true
    close-older-key: squad-game-planner

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pelikhan · 2026-08-03T18:08:13Z

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move all the squad specific frontmatter/prompt into a shared agentic workflow shared/squad.md to be imported
the squad init command should be run in the activation job so that it gets packaged with the rest of the prompt/skills/... and copied to the agent job. Squad should NOT be installed in the agent job.
the shared agentic workflows should support inputs for custom squad github token or custom github app information so that the squad cli running the "init" command can access other orgs/private repos.

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Copilot · 2026-08-03T18:25:31Z

@copilot

move all the squad specific frontmatter/prompt into a shared agentic workflow shared/squad.md to be imported
...

Done in 4e3b2b0 (commit hash may differ after push):

Squad-specific config now lives in .github/workflows/shared/squad.md, imported via imports: [shared/squad.md] from squad-game-planner.md (only engine:, permissions:, safe-outputs: and the game-planning prompt remain in the main workflow, since engine: isn't a mergeable import field).
squad init now runs entirely in jobs.activation.pre-steps of the shared component (checkout, npm install of the pinned @bradygaster/squad-cli, squad init --preset default), then uploads .squad/ and .github/agents/squad.agent.md as a squad-state artifact. The agent job only downloads/restores that artifact after its real checkout — Squad CLI is never installed in the agent job.
Added optional squad-github-token, squad-github-app-id, squad-github-app-private-key, squad-github-app-owner import inputs; if the App id is set, a GitHub App installation token is minted for squad init, falling back to the custom token, then the default token.

github-actions · 2026-08-03T18:55:21Z

PR Triage: #50055

Category: feature
Risk: low
Score: 28/100 (Impact 15 + Urgency 5 + Quality 8)
Recommended action: defer
Batch: pr-batch:new-workflows

Draft PR adding a new daily agentic workflow (1905 lines added, no deletions). Non-critical, low urgency.

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pelikhan · 2026-08-03T19:01:41Z

@copilot the squad shared agentic workflow should be self contained with all scripts inlined. No separate file

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Copilot · 2026-08-03T19:18:27Z

@copilot the squad shared agentic workflow should be self contained with all scripts inlined. No separate file

Done — removed shared/squad.md and inlined the entire Squad bootstrap (checkout, Node setup, App token minting, CLI install, squad init, artifact upload/restore) directly into squad-game-planner.md. No separate file.

pelikhan · 2026-08-03T19:20:35Z

@copilot refactor the agentic worfklow in the "game" part and the "squad" configuration part (to be imported). Split in 2 .md file

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Copilot · 2026-08-03T19:31:54Z

@copilot refactor the agentic worfklow in the "game" part and the "squad" configuration part (to be imported). Split in 2 .md file

Done — split into squad-game-planner.md (engine, permissions, safe-outputs, game prompt) and shared/squad.md (network, activation bootstrap, tools, restore step), imported via imports: [shared/squad.md]. Scripts stay inlined in shared/squad.md, no separate script file.

pelikhan · 2026-08-03T20:00:42Z

+      - name: Install Squad CLI
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          npm install -g "@bradygaster/squad-cli@0.11.0"


@copilot allow override version through environment variable

Done in 7c2c9b8 — added SQUAD_CLI_VERSION env var override (defaults to 0.11.0 if unset).

pelikhan · 2026-08-03T20:01:03Z

+      - name: Checkout repository for Squad bootstrap
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7.0.1


@copilot checkout already happens in activation job

Done in 7c2c9b8 — removed the redundant checkout step from shared/squad.md.

pelikhan · 2026-08-03T20:01:57Z

+tools:
+  bash: true


@copilot move tools to squad-game .md

Done in 7c2c9b8 — tools: now lives in squad-game-planner.md.

pelikhan · 2026-08-03T20:02:32Z

+engine:
+  id: copilot
+  agent: squad
+  copilot-sdk: true


@copilot move to shared/squad.md

Done in 7c2c9b8 — engine: now lives in shared/squad.md.

pelikhan · 2026-08-03T20:02:51Z

+network:
+  allowed:
+    - node


@copilot remove next section in this file

Done in 7c2c9b8 — removed the network: allowed: [node] section from shared/squad.md.

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pelikhan · 2026-08-03T20:30:43Z

@copilot keep working

pelikhan · 2026-08-03T20:45:20Z

+engine:
+  id: copilot
+  agent: squad
+  copilot-sdk: true


In copilot, you can remove these frontmatter entries since gh-aw doesn’t need any CLI when it’s running as part of copilot. It only needs to be installed in the activation-job.

Done — removed copilot-sdk: true from the engine config in commit 4f9... (see latest push). --agent squad runs through the standard Copilot CLI harness without the SDK sidecar; Squad CLI install/init stays confined to the activation job.

pelikhan · 2026-08-03T20:46:27Z

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Adds a new Agentic Workflows “Squad Game Planner” scheduled workflow that boots a Squad team during activation, then uses the restored team state to generate and file a daily game concept plan as tracked issues.

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Add squad-game-planner workflow source (.md) and compiled lock workflow (.lock.yml).
Introduce a shared shared/squad.md component to bootstrap Squad in activation and restore state in the agent job.
Update action pin data to include actions/create-github-app-token@v2.

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File	Description
pkg/workflow/data/action_pins.json	Adds a pin entry for `actions/create-github-app-token@v2`.
pkg/actionpins/data/action_pins.json	Mirrors the new `actions/create-github-app-token@v2` pin entry.
.github/workflows/squad-game-planner.md	Defines the new scheduled Squad planning workflow behavior, permissions, tools, and safe outputs.
.github/workflows/squad-game-planner.lock.yml	Compiled workflow used by GitHub Actions / gh-aw execution.
.github/workflows/shared/squad.md	Shared component to initialize Squad during activation and restore state for the agent job.

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+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  issues: read
+  pull-requests: read
+  copilot-requests: write


+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          if-no-files-found: ignore
+          include-hidden-files: true
+          name: squad-state
+          path: |
+            .squad
+            .github/agents/squad.agent.md
+          retention-days: 1.0


+            _GH_AW_CHROOT_JSON=$(jq -c --arg src "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw" --arg user "$(id -un)" --argjson uid "$(id -u)" --argjson gid "$(id -g)" --arg home "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/home" '.chroot={"binariesSourcePath":$src,"identity":{"user":$user,"uid":$uid,"gid":$gid,"home":$home}}' "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json") || { echo "chroot config patch failed" >&2; exit 1; }
+            printf '%s\n' "$_GH_AW_CHROOT_JSON" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
+            printf '%s\n' "$_GH_AW_CHROOT_JSON" > "${RUNNER_TEMP}/gh-aw/awf-config.json"
+          fi


+    "actions/create-github-app-token@v2": {
+      "repo": "actions/create-github-app-token",
+      "version": "v2",
+      "sha": "fee1f7d63c2ff003460e3d139729b119787bc349"
+    },


github-actions · 2026-08-04T18:04:03Z

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		- name: Checkout repository for Squad bootstrap
		uses: actions/checkout@v7.0.1

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