GitHub Announces Agentic Workflows For Repositories

GitHub and GitHub Next today announced GitHub Agentic Workflows, now available in technical preview, enabling intent-driven repository automation authored in plain Markdown and executed by coding agents in GitHub Actions. Workflows run with read-only permissions by default, use sandboxing, safe outputs, and tool allowlisting, and can invoke engines such as Copilot CLI, Claude Code, or OpenAI Codex to automate triage, documentation, testing, and CI investigations.