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gh-agent-task

MITUpdated on Nov 11, 20265,616GitHub stars

This gh-aw skill teaches an agent to use the gh agent-task extension for the GitHub CLI, which starts GitHub Copilot coding agent tasks: issues with plain-language instructions that Copilot works on and turns into pull requests.

InstallRepository Checked on Nov 13, 2026

What the skill teaches

This gh-aw skill teaches an agent to use the gh agent-task extension for the GitHub CLI, which starts GitHub Copilot coding agent tasks: issues with plain-language instructions that Copilot works on and turns into pull requests. It covers installing the extension, creating, listing, viewing and updating tasks, how to word a task description, using the feature from GitHub Agentic Workflows through safe outputs, authentication with a personal access token, common errors and a staged mode that previews tasks without creating them. The skill describes the extension as internal to GitHub.

Capabilities

  • Create a Copilot coding agent task from the GitHub CLI
  • List, view and update agent tasks
  • Write task descriptions Copilot can act on
  • Create agent tasks from an agentic workflow's safe outputs

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