"We began GitHub Agentic Workflows as an investigation into a simple question: what does repository automation with strong guardrails look like in the era of AI coding agents? A natural place to start was GitHub Actions, the heart of scalable repository automation on GitHub. GitHub Agentic Workflows leverage LLMs' natural language understanding to let developers define automation goals in simple Markdown files describing the desired outcome."
"This enables agentic workflows to build on existing automation infrastructure for permissions, logging, sandboxing, and auditability, while incorporating additional security controls that make it "practical to run agents continuously". The architecture makes extensive use of isolated sandboxes for agents and MCP servers, preventing a compromised component from impacting the whole system. Agents are firewalled and can access only the resources explicitly speficied by developers."
GitHub Agentic Workflows automate complex, repetitive repository tasks by using coding agents that understand context and intent. Developers define automation goals in simple Markdown files that describe desired outcomes, and coding agents execute those instructions within GitHub Actions. The system builds on existing automation infrastructure for permissions, logging, sandboxing, and auditability while adding security controls to allow continuous agent operation. The architecture isolates agents and MCP servers in sandboxes, firewalls agent access, and defaults workflows to read-only permissions; write actions require reviewable, safe outputs. Examples include issue triage, documentation updates, CI troubleshooting, and test improvements.
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