Turn Your Git History into Devlogs with GitHub Agent Workflows

Learn how to build a GitHub Agent Workflow that automatically drafts devlogs from your commits, PRs, and issues. This tutorial covers a quick primer on GitHub Actions & Agent Workflows before showing how to setup your repo and use the GitHub Copilot CLI to create an Agent Workflow.

Note: This video uses GitHub Copilot as the AI agent, but GitHub Agent Workflows also supports Claude and OpenAI Codex.

What's Included

• resources/ — The devlog agent workflow generated during the video, ready to drop into your own repo.

Timestamps

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:06 GitHub Actions Primer
• 1:49 Agent Workflow Primer
• 2:53 Setting up Agent Workflows
• 3:46 Generate with Copilot CLI
• 5:26 Review the Agent Workflow
• 5:52 Run the Agent Workflow
• 6:02 Review the Results
• 6:51 Wrap up

Resources

• GitHub Agent Workflows
• gh-aw Documentation
• GitHub Copilot CLI
• GitHub Actions Documentation