github-aw-practices
OfficialRoll out GitHub Agent workflows safely
System Documentation
What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps teams define organizational practices for safely operating GitHub Agentic Workflows (gh-aw), including rollout steps, A/B experiment design, and guardrails that prevent risky production behavior.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Safe rollout practices: Guides moving from report-only to staged behavior, shadow evaluation, and finally direct production writes.
- A/B experiment specifications: Defines how to declare experiments in workflow frontmatter and how variants are selected and exposed to prompts for controlled testing.
- Repository maintenance patterns: Establishes organization-scale conventions for sharing workflows, ownership models, and governance around agent-driven repository changes.
Use case example: A platform team is introducing a new agentic workflow across many repositories and wants to test prompt variations (A/B) in a shadow or staged environment while enforcing safe-outputs and integrity filtering.
Quick Start
Ask the AI to plan a safe rollout and A/B experiment setup for a new gh-aw workflow before enabling production write access.
Dependency Matrix
Required Modules
None requiredComponents
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