gh-aw/Blog/26/01/Welcome to Peli's Agent Factory
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- date-created
- 2026/01/12
- By Don Syme, Peli de Halleux and Mara Kiefer, on the gh-aw blog.
Summary
- GitHub Next and Microsoft Research built and run more than 100 automated agentic workflows in github/gh-aw, mostly for the gh-aw project itself and some at scale in GitHub's internal repositories.
- The post calls the factory "a living library of patterns that others can study, adapt, and remix" and notes that "most repositories won't need dozens of agentic workflows."
- Its 19-part tour, Meet the Workflows, describes workflows by category. Read the posts in any order and pick a workflow that matches a problem you already have.
Where to start
- Go Deep with Project Coordination Workflows covers finding, planning and tracking work. Plan Command breaks an issue into sub-tasks on a
/plan comment, and Discussion Task Miner pulls tasks out of discussion threads. - Meet the Metrics & Analytics Workflows covers agents that watch other agents: Metrics Collector, Portfolio Analyst for cost, and Audit Workflows for other workflows' runs. These answer which workflows are worth what they cost.
- Meet the Organization & Cross-Repo Workflows covers workflows that read across an organization, such as Org Health Report and Stale Repo Identifier. They need organization-level tokens, careful permissions and rate limiting.
Trying a workflow
Tour
- All posts are dated 2026-01-13. The series opens with these:
- It continues with specialized categories: