[EngSys] Agentic Triage Workflow#49653
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The focus of these changes is to move from the legacy JimBot issue triage to an agentic workflow version. This improves accuracy of labeling and adds support for identifying bot-sourced issues and issues for deprecated packages.
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Pull request overview
This PR replaces the legacy JimBot-style initial issue triage with a GitHub Agentic Workflows (gh-aw) based triage workflow, adding the new issue triage prompt + compiled lock workflow, and updating repo wiring/docs to support author classification, label prediction, CODEOWNERS-based routing, and deprecated-package detection.
Changes:
- Added a new agentic issue triage workflow definition (
issue-triage.md) and its compiled GitHub Actions workflow (issue-triage.lock.yml). - Added agent/skill documentation and repo MCP configuration to support creating/debugging/upgrading gh-aw workflows.
- Disabled the legacy
InitialIssueTriagepath in the event processor configuration and marked lock files as generated/merge-ours.
Reviewed changes
Copilot reviewed 8 out of 9 changed files in this pull request and generated 7 comments.
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
| .github/workflows/issue-triage.md | Source workflow prompt and safe-outputs configuration for agentic issue triage and routing. |
| .github/workflows/issue-triage.lock.yml | Generated compiled workflow consumed by GitHub Actions. |
| .github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.md | Router skill for gh-aw workflow design/create/debug/upgrade requests. |
| .github/skills/agentic-workflow-designer/SKILL.md | Interview-style workflow designer skill scaffolding for gh-aw workflows. |
| .github/mcp.json | Adds repo MCP server configuration for gh aw mcp-server tools. |
| .github/event-processor.config | Disables legacy initial issue triage in the event processor. |
| .github/aw/actions-lock.json | Adds action pin entry for gh-aw setup action. |
| .github/agents/agentic-workflows.md | Adds a dispatcher agent doc for working with gh-aw in this repo. |
| .gitattributes | Marks *.lock.yml as generated and sets merge strategy to ours. |
actionlint v1.7.12 (latest release) does not recognize the newer GitHub Actions features emitted in the generated gh-aw lock files: the 'copilot-requests' permission scope and the 'queue' key under 'concurrency'. Add path-scoped ignores in .github/actionlint.yaml for *.lock.yml only, so hand-authored workflows remain fully linted. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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I don't think we need to include this file if we're referencing it from the gh-aw repository.
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If we end up removing the designer skill from the repo in favor of referencing it, we should also remove this line.
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I didn't see a file like this on the .NET repo. Is there a particular reason we don't have one over there?
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There's an mcp.json file under /.vscode, but it references other MCP servers.
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That's a good catch. The infrastructure set this up. My best guess is that the gh aw init output changed since we did .NET and this is new. Poking copilot on it to see if we should reflect this over in .NET as well or remove it here.
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This file's counterpart on the .NET repo pins other versions. Should we also pin some of those here?
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The .NET version got updated today as well. Both .NET and Java should be using the latest version of the updates.
Summary
The focus of these changes is to move from the legacy JimBot issue triage to an agentic workflow version. This improves accuracy of labeling and adds support for identifying bot-sourced issues and issues for deprecated packages.