Create GitHub Copilot agentic workflow prompts in minutes
Choose the type of agentic workflow you want to create.
Select one or more events that start this workflow.
Select the actions the workflow is allowed to perform.
Optional — add details to make the workflow fit your project. Leave blank for a solid default.
Choose how you want to use your workflow.
Based on analysis of 679 workflows × 4,888 runs. Avoid these patterns to improve workflow reliability.
The slash_command trigger has a near-zero success rate across all combos (n=204). It is effectively broken.
slash_command. Use issues + workflow_dispatch instead for user-initiated workflows.
Using workflow_run as the sole trigger results in 13% success (n=76). Chain-of-workflow patterns are fragile.
schedule + workflow_dispatch with pre-steps for data gathering instead of workflow chaining.
The codex model has a 47% success rate vs 67% for the default model. Use default unless you specifically need code generation.
model: codex. For complex synthesis, use claude-opus-4.5 instead.
Workflows without workflow_dispatch have 21 percentage points lower success (n=3,476 vs n=1,412). Also blocks manual re-runs for debugging.
workflow_dispatch: to your trigger config.
32% of all workflows are unmodified template copies. Copied workflows have lower success because permissions, context, and timeouts don't match the target repo.
Prompts exceeding 30KB on the default model risk context limits and degraded performance. The sweet spot is 3–8KB.
claude-opus-4.5 for prompts >20KB.