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# Level Up Your Automation with GitHub Agentic Workflows


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 10, 2026
- **Time:** 09:45–11:45 (120 min)
- **Room:** Room Ulm (35 Seats)
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Description

In this hands-on workshop, you'll build a repository assistant that can understand your project, identify high-impact work, investigate issues, propose fixes, and help keep maintenance moving. You'll create your first GitHub Agentic Workflow in Markdown, run it with GitHub Actions, and learn how to debug agent behavior, improve instructions, add guardrails, and optimize for reliability, speed, and cost. You'll leave with a working workflow and a practical blueprint for turning repetitive repository work into automation that can reason and act.

## Speakers

### [Mara Kiefer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@mara-kiefer)

Senior Research Engineer at GitHub
### [Peli de Halleux](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@peli-de-halleux)

Principal Software Development Engineer at GitHub Next


## Related talks at this congress

- [The End of Commit-Fail-Commit: Rethinking CI with AI Agents and GitHub Actions](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1312-the-end-of-commit) — Ben De St Paer-Gotch, Julia Kordick
- [AI That Acts: Orchestrating Agents in Modern Developer Workflows (securely)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1148-ai-that-acts) — Evgenij Renke, Alessandra Vicini
- [GitHub Copilot: From Zero to Hero](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1002-github-copilot-from) — Lisa Becker, Tugdual Grall
- [Spec First Development: Building and Modernizing Apps with Agentic AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/934-spec-first) — Julia Kordick