github-agents
Installation
SKILL.md
Agents Inside GitHub
GitHub hosts its own agents. Knowing when to hand work to one — instead of doing it in-session — is the difference between an orchestrator and a bottleneck.
The surfaces
| Surface | What it is | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Copilot cloud agent | An agent you assign an issue or task to; it works in its own environment and opens a PR | Well-scoped, independently verifiable changes |
| Custom agents | Specialized configurations of the cloud agent, selectable at assignment | Repeated task shapes with house conventions |
| Copilot code review | Automated review on a PR, requestable or automatic | A cheap first pass before human review |
GitHub Agentic Workflows (gh-aw) |
Markdown workflows compiled to hardened Actions runs, driving an AI agent | Scheduled and event-driven agentic automation |
| This plugin | Claude Code orchestrating from a session | Judgment, coordination, multi-repo, anything needing a conversation |