GitHub Agentic Workflows Files

🌟 Release Highlights

This release focuses on fork compatibility, GitHub Enterprise support, and safe-outputs extensibility — making gh-aw more reliable across a wider range of deployment environments.

✨ What's New

• Custom steps in safe-outputs jobs — The new safe-outputs.steps field lets you inject custom steps into the consolidated safe-outputs job, running after checkout/setup but before any safe-output code executes. Steps from imported workflows are automatically merged. (#18460)

• GitHub Enterprise compatibility — Workflows running in GitHub Enterprise environments (e.g., COMPANY.ghe.com) now correctly pass GITHUB_SERVER_URL and GITHUB_API_URL to the Copilot CLI execution step, resolving authentication failures in GHE deployments. (#18504)

• Ecosystem network domains expanded — Added package registry domains for 5 new language ecosystems: R, Julia, OCaml, Bazel, and Lua. (#18405)

• Secret validation moved to activation job — Secrets are now validated earlier (at activation time, not agent job time), providing faster feedback and making secret_verification_result available during activation checks. (#18441)

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fork support for maintenance workflows — Agentic maintenance jobs (compile, scan, secret-validation) now skip automatically on forked repositories, eliminating noisy failures every 2 hours for fork users. (#18532)

• Clearer fork error messages — When a workflow fails in a forked repository due to missing secrets, failure messages now include an explanatory hint about fork secret isolation. (#18529, #18523)

• gh aw update graceful exit — Running gh aw update in a repo where no workflows have a source field now exits cleanly with an info message instead of returning an error. (#18433)

• Copilot CLI updated to v0.0.418 — Upgrades to the GA release of Copilot CLI, which changed its authentication mechanism. Workflows on v0.0.417 were failing immediately with Error: Authentication failed. (#18502)

• CLI tool versions updated — Claude Code bumped to 2.1.59, Codex to 0.105.0. (#18515)

📚 Documentation

• Added URL redirects covering all historical docs file renames — old bookmarked links now resolve correctly. (#18430)
• Streamlined network.md reference for improved scannability. (#18415)

🌍 Community Contributions

A huge thank you to the community members who reported issues that were resolved in this release:

• @dsyme for Using gh-aw in forks of repositories (#18481)
• @JoshGreenslade for gh-aw not working in cloud enterprise environments (#18480)
• @dsolteszopyn for gh aw update fails (#18421)
• @Mossaka for directly contributing ecosystem domain support for R, Julia, OCaml, Bazel, and Lua (#18405)

For complete details, see CHANGELOG.

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What's Changed

• Add ecosystem domains for R, Julia, OCaml, Bazel, Lua by @Mossaka in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18405
• [log] Add debug logging to 5 pkg files by @github-actions[bot] in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18401
• [docs] docs: remove bloat from network.md reference by @github-actions[bot] in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18415
• [instructions] Sync github-agentic-workflows.md with v0.40.1 by @github-actions[bot] in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18414
• fix: CLI consistency - usage paths, trial --quiet, pr verbose, secrets examples by @Copilot in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18380
• Add URL redirects for all historical docs file renames by @Copilot in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18430
• [docs] Fix 175 non-standard code fence closing markers across 20 scratchpad spec files by @github-actions[bot] in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18417
• Add Daily Documentation Healer workflow (self-healing DDUw companion) by @Copilot in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18375
• chore(deps): bump rollup from 4.50.1 to 4.59.0 in /docs in the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18431
• chore(deps): bump hono from 4.12.0 to 4.12.2 in /.github/workflows in the npm_and_yarn group across 1 directory by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18432
• fix: gh aw update exits gracefully when no workflows have a source field by @Copilot in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18433
• [docs] Update documentation for features from 2026-02-26 by @github-actions[bot] in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18443
• Move validate-secret step from agent job to activation job by @Copilot in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18441
• fix: correct TestUpdateCommand_NoMergeFlag assertion to match implementation by @Copilot in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18450
• fix: SHA-pin actions/setup in agentics-maintenance.yml generation by @Copilot in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18378
• Add safe-outputs.steps for injecting custom steps into safe-output jobs by @Copilot in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18460
• [fp-enhancer] Improve pkg/cli: immutability and functional initialization by @github-actions[bot] in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18469
• fix: upgrade Copilot CLI default version to 0.0.418 by @Copilot in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18502
• Emit default environment variables for GitHub Enterprise by @Copilot in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18504
• Update CLI versions: Claude Code 2.1.59, Codex 0.105.0 by @Copilot in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18515
• Add fork context warning to validate_secrets.cjs by @Copilot in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18523
• Add fork context hint to workflow failure conclusion messages by @Copilot in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18529
• Skip agentics-maintenance jobs in forked repositories by @Copilot in https://github.com/github/gh-aw/pull/18532

Full Changelog: https://github.com/github/gh-aw/compare/v0.50.4...v0.50.5