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agentic-workflows skill template ships a relative link that is broken in consumer repos

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
76/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
go, markdown
Domain
cli, documentation

Research direction

The broken link is in the shipped template pkg/cli/data/agentic_workflows_skill.md, around line 25, in the 'go directly to Model and engine misconfiguration' sentence. Read how gh aw embeds files from pkg/cli/data so you know this is the copy consumers receive. Change the relative ../../aw/ link to an absolute github.com/github/gh-aw URL, as the issue suggests. Done means the link resolves outside this repo and a check under pkg/cli fails on any relative ../ link in pkg/cli/data/.

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Description

ai-inspected

Summary

The agentic-workflows skill that gh aw installs into consumer repos has a relative link that resolves to a file that doesn't exist there:

https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/main/pkg/cli/data/agentic_workflows_skill.md?plain=1#L25

go directly to [Model and engine misconfiguration](../../aw/debug-agentic-workflow.md#model-and-engine-misconfiguration)

The same file says the .github/aw/* guides should be loaded "from github/gh-aw (they are not available locally)". The link works inside this repo (.github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.md → .github/aw/), but not in consumer repos:

  • installed at .agents/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.md, it resolves to .agents/aw/debug-agentic-workflow.md, which doesn't exist
  • installed at .github/skills/agentic-workflows/SKILL.md, it resolves to .github/aw/debug-agentic-workflow.md, which consumers don't have either

So the new "go directly to Model and engine misconfiguration" route is a dead link for every consumer (we saw it after gh aw upgrade to v0.91.12).

Suggested fix

Make the link absolute in the shipped template, e.g.

[Model and engine misconfiguration](https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/main/.github/aw/debug-agentic-workflow.md#model-and-engine-misconfiguration)

or point it at .github/aw/debug-model-engine-misconfiguration.md. A check that shipped templates under pkg/cli/data/ contain no relative ../ links would catch regressions.

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