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What are GitHub Agentic Workflows?

They are repository automations written as Markdown instructions and compiled into GitHub Actions workflows that run coding agents. GitHub describes use cases such as issue triage, CI investigation, documentation updates and test writing, with configured triggers, permissions and safe outputs.

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GitHub Agentic Workflows Turn Markdown Tasks Into Reviewable Actions Jobs

GitHub’s agentic workflows bring Markdown instructions into Actions with guardrails for agent-proposed changes.

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