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Skills measured
Audience profile
As a candidate for this certification, you are in business professional roles including, but not limited to, product manager, program manager, technical project manager, and business analyst. You use GitHub and GitHub Copilot to improve the quality, speed, and scale of daily work. You accelerate operational efficiency, create workflows for business, collaborate more effectively, and increase productivity by using GitHub and GitHub Copilot—without needing deep software development or coding experience.
While candidates for this exam are not necessarily software developers, solutions architects, or software engineers, they are seeking to improve business processes, increase technical fluency, and optimize outcomes by using Agentic AI.
Your responsibilities for this role include:
- Using GitHub productivity platform features
- Enhancing productivity by using GitHub Copilot
- Designing and implementing agentic workflows and automations
- Performing human-in-the-loop tasks for agentic workflows
You may work closely with other business stakeholders, including but not limited to technical professionals across your organization to design, develop, and implement business processes and workflows that effectively and reliably support the needs of your business.
You should have some experience using generative AI and it may be helpful to have some familiarity with GitHub features and capabilities. You should have experience producing business output that meets business requirements. You should also have experience managing projects, products, or processes, in a business context and making or influencing business decisions about quality, speed, risk, and control.
You should also have experience with:
- Understanding considerations for versioning workflows
- Understanding differences between GitHub Copilot Chat in github.com, GitHub Copilot App, and GitHub Copilot CLI
- Assessing workflow impact and business value
- Differentiating between GitHub Copilot cloud agents and custom agents
- Understanding considerations for GitHub Copilot security
Skills at a glance
- Use GitHub platform features (20–25%)
- Enhance productivity by using GitHub Copilot (20–25%)
- Design and implement agentic workflows and automations (25–30%)
- Perform human-in-the-loop tasks for agentic workflows (20–25%)
Use GitHub platform features (20–25%)
Apply GitHub management best practices and policies
- Evaluate budget guardrails
- Evaluate token usage
- Adhere to organizational standards
- Understand considerations for secrets management
- Evaluate governance, privacy, usage, and risk controls
- Apply Responsible AI principles
- Recommend branch strategies and policies
- Identify how different models affect model output and explainability
- Recognize considerations for choosing between models, including unique strengths of each mode
- Identify the characteristics of skills, prompts, and instructions
- Recommend when to use Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers
Plan and manage work
- Create projects, including selecting an appropriate template
- Manage and customize views, including columns, automation, and custom fields
- Configure access to GitHub projects
- Manage issues, including creating, assigning, linking, and tagging
- Utilize the GitHub platform for collaboration
Track and capture work
- Create pull requests
- Assign pull requests
- Link pull requests
- Link project items
- Create and update wikis
Enhance productivity by using GitHub Copilot (20–25%)
Chat with GitHub Copilot
- Choose an appropriate model for business purpose or task
- Manage sessions, including starting, resuming, renaming, pinning, and archiving
- Select an agent
- Use @ mentions to attach content including tools, files, and issues
- Use slash commands, including /explain, /fix, /tests, /doc, /clear, /delete, and /chronicle
Write instructions and prompts that produce reliable outputs
- Define information to be included in the response, such as sentiment, coherence, and creativity
- Define the data to be acted on and input variables
- Specify structure of the response, such as table format or maximum length
- Revert changes by using checkpoints
Create and manage custom agents
- Create a custom agent by adding web search to instructions or prompts
- Save an agent to a GitHub project
- Implement agent guardrails
- Review custom agent activities
Design and implement agentic workflows and automations (25–30%)
Design agentic workflows and automations
- Identify use cases that can be optimized by agentic workflows or automations
- Decompose use cases into processes and tasks
- Specify decision-making criteria
- Align agentic workflows with common design patterns
Implement agentic workflows
- Create agentic workflow files
- Configure workflow, schedule, permissions, and output
- Configure folder structure for an agentic workflow
- Create agentic workflow instructions
- Configure self-critique loops
Implement automations
- Select and configure triggers
- Configure prompts and models
- Select and configure tools within automations
Integrate skills and MCP servers
- Install external skills
- Create custom skills
- Call skills
- Connect agentic workflows to MCP servers to improve context
Perform human-in-the-loop tasks for agentic workflows (20–25%)
Design human review and validation practices
- Identify critical decision points where human judgment is required
- Choose how the agent will perform work, including interactive, plan, and autopilot modes
- Design and configure escalation paths based on tool usage
Interact with agentic workflows
- Respond to requests for interaction from agentic workflows, including approvals, rejections, or revisions
- Interact with an agentic workflow while it is running
- Interact with agentic workflows to resolve failures
- Stop an agentic workflow that is running
Supervise and monitor agentic workflows
- Ensure that agentic workflows meet requirements
- Review agentic workflow outputs
- Monitor agentic workflow runs
History
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4 domains, 13 skill groups, 60 skills. See the Current tab for the full outline.