07-your-first-workflow.md

Write Your First Agentic Workflow

Writing your first workflow is the moment theory becomes practice — let's make something real.

🎯 What You'll Do

You'll create .github/workflows/daily-report-status.md, a small workflow that reads repository issues and posts one controlled response.

In either path, you'll start with daily-report-status.md and end with daily-report-status.lock.yml, the compiled workflow that GitHub Actions runs.

📋 Before You Start

• Completed Install the gh-aw CLI Extension
• You can use gh aw in a terminal or open GitHub Copilot for a browser-based session

Choose Your Path

Path	What you'll do	Continue
Terminal path	Build the workflow incrementally in two short parts, compile after each meaningful change, then commit and push	Write the workflow with the Terminal path
GitHub Copilot path	Ask an agent in GitHub Copilot or the repository's Agents tab to create and validate the workflow, then review and merge its pull request	Write the workflow with GitHub Copilot

The Terminal path gives you early compiler feedback. The GitHub Copilot path delegates gh aw compile to the agent's session workspace, so browser-first learners can still complete this step without a local terminal.

Next: Write Your First Agentic Workflow — Terminal Path

Next: Write Your First Agentic Workflow — GitHub Copilot Path