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Under the hood: Security architecture of GitHub Agentic Workflows

The GitHub Blog·@LandonCox·2 months ago
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Whether you’re an open-source maintainer or part of an enterprise team, waking up to documentation fixes, new unit tests, and refactoring suggestions can be a true “aha” moment. But automation also raises an important concern: how do you put guardrails on agents that have access to your repository and the internet? Will you be wondering if your agent relied on documentation from a sketchy website, or pushed a commit containing an API token? What if it decides to add noisy comments to every open issue one day? Automations must be predictable to offer durable value. But what is the safest way to add agents to existing automations like CI/CD? Agents are non-deterministic: They must consume untrusted inputs, reason over repository state, and make decisions at runtime. Letting agents operate in CI/CD without real-time supervision allows you to scale your software engineering, but it also requires novel guardrails to keep you from creating security problems.…

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