GitHub Agentic Workflows: Automation That Actually Reads the Room | DEM350

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​ GitHub Agentic Workflows let your repo improve itself. With a simple markdown file and one command, GitHub Actions launches an AI agent to triage issues, fix CI failures, update docs, and improve tests, with no complex YAML required. See a live demo from minimal workflow file to a safe, sandboxed pipeline that delivers a ready‑to‑review PR. Your repo on autopilot, with you in control.

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𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀:
* Ari LiVigni
* Alejandro Menocal

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DEM350 | English (US) | Developer tools & frameworks

Demo | (200) Intermediate

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Chapters:
0:00 – Overview of GitHub Agentic Workflows and goal of demo
00:01:00 – Benefits of Agentic Workflows for automation and CI/CD
00:02:16 – Demo of fictitious Mona website and automated PR generation
00:04:51 – Explanation of the setup and Copilot scaffolding process for workflows
00:06:01 – Choosing agentic workflow agent to create website update process
00:07:22 – Modifier example: customizing an agent to always perform specific actions in workflow creation
00:15:05 – Addressing security restrictions and sandboxing during compilation
00:16:36 – Encouragement to experiment with agentic workflow exercise
00:17:00 – Providing GitHub Skills link and closing remarks on workflows   Read More Microsoft Developer 

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