Meet the Workflows: Teamwork & Culture

Jan 13, 2026

Don Syme

Peli de Halleux

Mara Kiefer

Oh, my dear friends! Let’s explore the playful workshop - the most fun corner of Peli’s Agent Factory!

In our previous post, we explored security and compliance workflows - the essential guardrails that manage vulnerability campaigns, validate network security, and prevent credential exposure. These workflows let us sleep soundly knowing our agents operate within safe boundaries.

But here’s the thing: work doesn’t have to be all business. While we’ve built serious, production-critical workflows for quality, releases, and security, we also discovered something unexpected - AI agents can bring joy, build team culture, and create moments of delight. Not every workflow needs to solve a critical problem; some can simply make your day better. Let’s explore the playful side of our agent factory, where we learned that personality and fun drive engagement just as powerfully as utility.

Teamwork & Culture Workflows

These agents facilitate team communication and remind us that work can be fun:

Daily Team Status - Shares team mood and status updates - 22 issues, 17 discussions (plus 2 causal chain PRs!)
Daily News - Curates relevant news for the team - 45 news digest discussions
Poem Bot - Responds to /poem-bot commands with creative verses (yes, really)
Weekly Issue Summary - Creates digestible summaries complete with charts and trends - 5 weekly analysis discussions
Daily Repo Chronicle - Narrates the day’s activity like a storyteller - 6 chronicle discussions

The Poem Bot started as a whimsy in our Copilot for PRs project in 2022. Someone said “wouldn’t it be funny if we had an agent that writes poems about our code?” and then we built it. Poem Bot responds to /poem-bot commands with creative verses about code, adding a touch of whimsy to the development workflow. We learned that AI agents don’t have to be all business - they can build culture and create moments of joy.

Daily News has created 45 news digest discussions curating relevant developments for the team - for example, #6932 with the daily status roundup. It shares links, adds commentary and connects them to our work.

Daily Team Status has created 22 issues and 17 discussions sharing daily team status updates - for example, #6930 with the daily team status report. Two of its issues even led to merged PRs by downstream agents, showing that even “soft” workflows can drive concrete improvements.

Weekly Issue Summary has created 5 weekly analysis discussions with digestible summaries, charts, and trends - for example, #5844 analyzing the week of December 1-8, 2025.

Daily Repo Chronicle has created 6 chronicle discussions narrating the repository’s activity like a storyteller - for example, #6750 chronicling a development surge with 42 active PRs.

A theme here is the reduction of cognitive load. Having agents summarize and narrate daily activity means we don’t have to mentally parse long lists of issues or PRs. Instead, we get digestible stories that highlight what’s important. This frees up mental bandwidth for actual work.

Another theme is that tone can help make things more enjoyable. The Daily Repo Chronicle started writing summaries in a narrative, almost journalistic style. The outputs from AI agents don’t have to be robotic - they can have personality while still being informative.

These communication workflows help build team cohesion and remind us that work can be delightful.

Using These Workflows

You can add these workflows to your own repository and remix them. Get going with our Quick Start, then run one of the following:

Daily Team Status:

gh aw add-wizard https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.45.5/.github/workflows/daily-team-status.md

Daily News:

gh aw add-wizard https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.45.5/.github/workflows/daily-news.md

Poem Bot:

gh aw add-wizard https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.45.5/.github/workflows/poem-bot.md

Weekly Issue Summary:

gh aw add-wizard https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.45.5/.github/workflows/weekly-issue-summary.md

Daily Repo Chronicle:

gh aw add-wizard https://github.com/github/gh-aw/blob/v0.45.5/.github/workflows/daily-repo-chronicle.md

Then edit and remix the workflow specifications to meet your needs, regenerate the lock file using gh aw compile, and push to your repository. See our Quick Start for further installation and setup instructions.

You can also create your own workflows.

Learn More

GitHub Agentic Workflows - The technology behind the workflows
Quick Start - How to write and compile workflows

Next Up: Summon an Agent on Demand

Scheduled workflows are great, but sometimes you need help right now. Enter ChatOps and interactive workflows.

Continue reading: Interactive & ChatOps Workflows →

This is part 12 of a 19-part series exploring the workflows in Peli’s Agent Factory.