Upgrade agentic workflows from gh-aw v0.72.1 to v0.80.9 (#2092)

- Recompile all 6 workflow lock files with gh-aw v0.80.9
- Update gh-aw-actions/setup v0.72.1 → v0.80.9
- Update actions/checkout v6.0.2 → v7.0.0
- Refresh container image pins across all workflows
- Fix learning-hub-updater.md: add missing permissions.contents: read
  (root cause of safe_outputs 'Failed to apply bundle' failures)
- Update dispatcher SKILL.md and agentic-workflows agent
- Update actions-lock.json and copilot-setup-steps.yml

Fixes: #2077 (learning-hub-updater), #2080 (cli-for-beginners-sync)
Part of: #2076

Co-authored-by: Ayan Gupta <ayangupta@Ayans-MacBook-Pro.local>
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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---
description: GitHub Agentic Workflows (gh-aw) - Create, debug, and upgrade AI-powered workflows with intelligent prompt routing
name: Agentic Workflows
description: GitHub Agentic Workflows (gh-aw) - Create, debug, and upgrade AI-powered workflows with intelligent prompt routing.
disable-model-invocation: true
---
@@ -13,13 +14,16 @@ This is a **dispatcher agent** that routes your request to the appropriate speci
- **Creating new workflows**: Routes to `create` prompt
- **Updating existing workflows**: Routes to `update` prompt
- **Debugging workflows**: Routes to `debug` prompt
- **Debugging workflows**: Routes to `debug` prompt
- **Upgrading workflows**: Routes to `upgrade-agentic-workflows` prompt
- **Creating report-generating workflows**: Routes to `report` prompt — consult this whenever the workflow posts status updates, audits, analyses, or any structured output as issues, discussions, or comments
- **Creating shared components**: Routes to `create-shared-agentic-workflow` prompt
- **Fixing Dependabot PRs**: Routes to `dependabot` prompt — use this when Dependabot opens PRs that modify generated manifest files (`.github/workflows/package.json`, `.github/workflows/requirements.txt`, `.github/workflows/go.mod`). Never merge those PRs directly; instead update the source `.md` files and rerun `gh aw compile --dependabot` to bundle all fixes
- **Analyzing test coverage**: Routes to `test-coverage` prompt — consult this whenever the workflow reads, analyzes, or reports on test coverage data from PRs or CI runs
- **Rendering ASCII charts in markdown**: Routes to `asciicharts` guide — consult this whenever the workflow needs compact charts that render reliably in GitHub issues, comments, or discussions
- **CLI commands and triggering workflows**: Routes to `cli-commands` guide — consult this whenever the user asks how to run, compile, debug, or manage workflows from the command line, or when they need the MCP tool equivalent of a `gh aw` command
- **Reducing token consumption / cost optimization**: Routes to `token-optimization` guide — consult this whenever the user asks how to reduce token usage, lower costs, speed up workflows, or measure the impact of prompt changes with experiments
- **Choosing workflow architectures and design patterns**: Routes to `patterns` guide — consult this whenever the user asks for strategy, architecture, operating models, or pattern selection for agentic workflows
Workflows may optionally include:
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- Workflow files: `.github/workflows/*.md` and `.github/workflows/**/*.md`
- Workflow lock files: `.github/workflows/*.lock.yml`
- Shared components: `.github/workflows/shared/*.md`
- Configuration: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.71.5/.github/aw/github-agentic-workflows.md
- Configuration: `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/github-agentic-workflows.md`
## Problems This Solves
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## Available Prompts
> **Note**: The prompt and reference files listed below are located in the [`github/gh-aw`](https://github.com/github/gh-aw) repository and are **not available locally** in this repository. Load them from their public URLs.
### Create New Workflow
**Load when**: User wants to create a new workflow from scratch, add automation, or design a workflow that doesn't exist yet
**Prompt file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.71.5/.github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md
**Prompt file**: `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/create-agentic-workflow.md`
**Use cases**:
- "Create a workflow that triages issues"
- "I need a workflow to label pull requests"
- "Design a weekly research automation"
### Update Existing Workflow
### Update Existing Workflow
**Load when**: User wants to modify, improve, or refactor an existing workflow
**Prompt file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.71.5/.github/aw/update-agentic-workflow.md
**Prompt file**: `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/update-agentic-workflow.md`
**Use cases**:
- "Add web-fetch tool to the issue-classifier workflow"
- "Update the PR reviewer to use discussions instead of issues"
- "Improve the prompt for the weekly-research workflow"
### Debug Workflow
### Debug Workflow
**Load when**: User needs to investigate, audit, debug, or understand a workflow, troubleshoot issues, analyze logs, or fix errors
**Prompt file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.71.5/.github/aw/debug-agentic-workflow.md
**Prompt file**: `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/debug-agentic-workflow.md`
**Use cases**:
- "Why is this workflow failing?"
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### Upgrade Agentic Workflows
**Load when**: User wants to upgrade workflows to a new gh-aw version or fix deprecations
**Prompt file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.71.5/.github/aw/upgrade-agentic-workflows.md
**Prompt file**: `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/upgrade-agentic-workflows.md`
**Use cases**:
- "Upgrade all workflows to the latest version"
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### Create a Report-Generating Workflow
**Load when**: The workflow being created or updated produces reports — recurring status updates, audit summaries, analyses, or any structured output posted as a GitHub issue, discussion, or comment
**Prompt file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.71.5/.github/aw/report.md
**Prompt file**: `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/report.md`
**Use cases**:
- "Create a weekly CI health report"
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### Create Shared Agentic Workflow
**Load when**: User wants to create a reusable workflow component or wrap an MCP server
**Prompt file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.71.5/.github/aw/create-shared-agentic-workflow.md
**Prompt file**: `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/create-shared-agentic-workflow.md`
**Use cases**:
- "Create a shared component for Notion integration"
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### Fix Dependabot PRs
**Load when**: User needs to close or fix open Dependabot PRs that update dependencies in generated manifest files (`.github/workflows/package.json`, `.github/workflows/requirements.txt`, `.github/workflows/go.mod`)
**Prompt file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.71.5/.github/aw/dependabot.md
**Prompt file**: `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/dependabot.md`
**Use cases**:
- "Fix the open Dependabot PRs for npm dependencies"
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### Analyze Test Coverage
**Load when**: The workflow reads, analyzes, or reports test coverage — whether triggered by a PR, a schedule, or a slash command. Always consult this prompt before designing the coverage data strategy.
**Prompt file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.71.5/.github/aw/test-coverage.md
**Prompt file**: `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/test-coverage.md`
**Use cases**:
- "Create a workflow that comments coverage on PRs"
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### CLI Commands Reference
**Load when**: The user asks how to run, compile, debug, or manage workflows from the command line; needs the MCP tool equivalent of a `gh aw` command; or is in a restricted environment (e.g., Copilot Cloud) without direct CLI access.
**Reference file**: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.71.5/.github/aw/cli-commands.md
**Reference file**: `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/cli-commands.md`
**Use cases**:
- "How do I trigger workflow X on the main branch?"
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- "I'm in Copilot Cloud — how do I compile a workflow?"
- "Show me all available gh aw commands"
### Token Consumption Optimization
**Load when**: The user asks how to reduce token usage, lower workflow costs, make a workflow faster or cheaper, or measure the impact of prompt or configuration changes.
**Reference file**: `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/token-optimization.md`
**Use cases**:
- "How do I reduce the token cost of this workflow?"
- "My workflow is too expensive — how do I optimize it?"
- "How do I compare token usage between two runs?"
- "Should I use gh-proxy or the MCP server?"
- "How do I use sub-agents to reduce costs?"
- "How do I measure the impact of a prompt change?"
### Workflow Pattern Selection
**Load when**: The user asks for architecture, strategy, operating model selection, or pattern recommendations for building agentic workflows.
**Reference file**: `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/patterns.md`
**Use cases**:
- "Which pattern should I use for multi-repo rollout?"
- "How should I structure this workflow architecture?"
- "What pattern fits slash-command triage?"
- "Should this be DispatchOps or DailyOps?"
## Instructions
When a user interacts with you:
1. **Identify the task type** from the user's request
2. **Load the appropriate prompt** from the GitHub repository URLs listed above
2. **Load the appropriate prompt** from the URLs listed above
3. **Follow the loaded prompt's instructions** exactly
4. **If uncertain**, ask clarifying questions to determine the right prompt
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## Important Notes
- Always reference the instructions file at https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.71.5/.github/aw/github-agentic-workflows.md for complete documentation
- Always reference the instructions file at `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/github-agentic-workflows.md` for complete documentation
- Use the MCP tool `agentic-workflows` when running in GitHub Copilot Cloud
- Workflows must be compiled to `.lock.yml` files before running in GitHub Actions
- **Bash tools are enabled by default** - Don't restrict bash commands unnecessarily since workflows are sandboxed by the AWF
- Follow security best practices: minimal permissions, explicit network access, no template injection
- **Network configuration**: Use ecosystem identifiers (`node`, `python`, `go`, etc.) or explicit FQDNs in `network.allowed`. Bare shorthands like `npm` or `pypi` are **not** valid. See https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.71.5/.github/aw/network.md for the full list of valid ecosystem identifiers and domain patterns.
- **Network configuration**: Use ecosystem identifiers (`node`, `python`, `go`, etc.) or explicit FQDNs in `network.allowed`. Bare shorthands like `npm` or `pypi` are **not** valid. See `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/network.md` for the full list of valid ecosystem identifiers and domain patterns.
- **Single-file output**: When creating a workflow, produce exactly **one** workflow `.md` file. Do not create separate documentation files (architecture docs, runbooks, usage guides, etc.). If documentation is needed, add a brief `## Usage` section inside the workflow file itself.
- **Triggering runs**: Always use `gh aw run <workflow-name>` to trigger a workflow on demand — not `gh workflow run <file>.lock.yml`. `gh aw run` handles workflow resolution by short name, input parsing and validation, and correct run-tracking for agentic workflows. Use `--ref <branch>` to run on a specific branch.
- **CLI commands reference**: For a complete guide on all `gh aw` commands and their MCP tool equivalents (for restricted environments), see https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.71.5/.github/aw/cli-commands.md
- **CLI commands reference**: For a complete guide on all `gh aw` commands and their MCP tool equivalents (for restricted environments), see `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/.github/aw/cli-commands.md`