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Komal Vardhan Lolugu 0fa87ab383 Refresh 6 stale instruction files (#2133) (#2139)
* Refresh 6 stale instruction files flagged in #2133

Targeted refresh:
- blazor: C# 13 to C# 14. Drop the Visual Studio Enterprise mandate so contributors on VS Code or Rider aren't blocked by a paid SKU. Swap VS-only profiling for dotnet-trace and dotnet-counters.
- copilot-thought-logging: narrow applyTo from '**' to '**/Copilot-Processing.md'. Replace 9 Windows backslash paths with POSIX './Copilot-Processing.md' so the workflow works on macOS and Linux.
- genaiscript: drop the "avoid exception handlers or error checking" line. Replace it with: handle errors at I/O and external API boundaries, let unexpected exceptions surface.
- memory-bank: add the required 'description' frontmatter field (was a validation failure). Narrow applyTo from '**' to 'memory-bank/**'. Add an opt-in note so contributors know auxiliary files land in the workspace root.

Minor modernization:
- azure-functions-typescript: Node.js v20 to v22 LTS.
- localization: relative '../../issues' disclaimer link to absolute https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/issues so it resolves regardless of the localized doc's path.

docs/README.instructions.md regenerated by 'npm run build' to pick up the new memory-bank description.

* revert applyTo narrow on copilot-thought-logging (#2133 review)

aaronpowell flagged that narrowing applyTo from '**' to
'**/Copilot-Processing.md' inverts the instruction. The instruction
tells Copilot to CREATE Copilot-Processing.md when handling any user
request, so it must apply globally, not only when that file is
already open.

Restore applyTo to '**'. Keep the POSIX path fixes (backslash to
'./Copilot-Processing.md') and the other 5 file fixes in this PR
unchanged.

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Co-authored-by: Aaron Powell <me@aaron-powell.com>
2026-06-29 23:44:35 +00:00
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2025-10-29 06:07:13 +11:00

Agentic Workflows

Agentic Workflows are AI-powered repository automations that run coding agents in GitHub Actions. Defined in markdown with natural language instructions, they enable event-triggered and scheduled automation with built-in guardrails and security-first design.

How to Contribute

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on how to contribute new workflows, improve existing ones, and share your use cases.

How to Use Agentic Workflows

What's Included:

  • Each workflow is a single .md file with YAML frontmatter and natural language instructions
  • Workflows are compiled to .lock.yml GitHub Actions files via gh aw compile
  • Workflows follow the GitHub Agentic Workflows specification

To Install:

  • Install the gh aw CLI extension: gh extension install github/gh-aw
  • Copy the workflow .md file to your repository's .github/workflows/ directory
  • Compile with gh aw compile to generate the .lock.yml file
  • Commit both the .md and .lock.yml files

To Activate/Use:

  • Workflows run automatically based on their configured triggers (schedules, events, slash commands)
  • Use gh aw run <workflow> to trigger a manual run
  • Monitor runs with gh aw status and gh aw logs

When to Use:

  • Automate issue triage and labeling
  • Generate daily status reports
  • Maintain documentation automatically
  • Run scheduled code quality checks
  • Respond to slash commands in issues and PRs
  • Orchestrate multi-step repository automation
Name Description Triggers
Daily Issues Report Generates a daily summary of open issues and recent activity as a GitHub issue schedule
OSPO Contributors Report Monthly contributor activity metrics across an organization's repositories. schedule, workflow_dispatch
OSPO Organization Health Report Comprehensive weekly health report for a GitHub organization. Surfaces stale issues/PRs, merge time analysis, contributor leaderboards, and actionable items needing human attention. schedule, workflow_dispatch
OSPO Stale Repository Report Identifies inactive repositories in your organization and generates an archival recommendation report. schedule, workflow_dispatch
OSS Release Compliance Checker Analyzes a target repository against open source release requirements and posts a detailed compliance report as an issue comment. issues, workflow_dispatch
Relevance Check Slash command to evaluate whether an issue or pull request is still relevant to the project slash_command, roles
Relevance Summary Manually triggered workflow that summarizes all open issues and PRs with a /relevance-check response into a single issue workflow_dispatch
Weekly Comment Sync Weekly workflow that finds stale code comments or README snippets, makes text-only synchronization updates, and opens a draft pull request when changes are needed. schedule, workflow_dispatch