Next <-> GitHub Educator Summit

Agenda

• Introduce Actions and Agentic Workflows
• Show Autoloop, Crane and Goal
• Get hands-one with an agentic workflow in your own repo

GitHub Agentic Workflows

GitHub Agentic Workflows is a framework for running agents on the Actions compute and event framework.

The quickstart docs here: https://github.github.com/gh-aw/ are a great way to get started, or simply paste this to your agent:

Install GitHub Agentic Workflows using https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/main/install.md

To create a new workflow:

Create a workflow for GitHub Agentic Workflows using https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gh-aw/main/create.md

Not just for coding! Check out Peli's Agent Factory for many inspiring examples.

Loop Engineering

Rather than directly prompting agents, agentic engineering is shifting toward creating recurring goal-oriented processes that run automatically. This can target goals like performing research, increasing test coverage, migrating a codebase, keeping issues triaged, or anything that you can measure and improve about your repository!

Autoloop

Autoloop automates repeated improvement loops in a repository: define a goal, target files, and a measurable evaluation, and it keeps only changes that improve the metric.

Agent install comamnd:

Install autoloop using https://github.com/githubnext/autoloop/blob/main/install.md

Crane

Crane automates verified code migrations, planning and applying migration steps while preserving behavior through tests and health checks.

Agent install comamnd:

Install crane using https://github.com/githubnext/crane/blob/main/install.md

Goal

Goal turns a GitHub issue into a durable agentic workflow that keeps working on the same branch and pull request until the issue's completion contract is satisfied.

Agent install comamnd:

Install goal using https://github.com/githubnext/goal/blob/main/install.md

How to use one in your repo

1. Clone your repository locally, if you do not already have it.
2. Start Copilot or the coding agent of your choice in that repository.
3. Think of a task you want to accomplish in your repo, and match it with one of the tools above
4. Paste the tool's install prompt into your agent.
5. Ask for help!

After today, find us in our Discord. We would love to help you on your agentic workflows journey.