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Ambient-folders migration path #1607

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Scenario

gh-aw is shipping ambient-folders which eliminates the artifact upload/download dance. Squad's shared component has 15+ lines of artifact management (upload workspace, download in agent jobs, re-upload on completion) that will become dead code once ambient-folders lands.

Early adopters on the preview will need to manually update their compiled locks. Teams that don't migrate will carry unnecessary complexity and may hit deprecation warnings.

Proposal

  • Document the ambient-folders migration in Squad's gh-aw docs (what changes, what to remove, what stays)
  • Provide a squad aw upgrade-component command or migration guide that rewrites the shared component to use the new syntax
  • Detect ambient-folders availability at runtime and skip artifact steps automatically (graceful degradation)
  • Add a deprecation notice to artifact-based paths once ambient-folders reaches GA

Value

Smooth upgrade path when gh-aw ships ambient-folders — no broken workflows.

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    enhancementNew feature or improvement
    gh-awGitHub Agentic Workflows integration
    on Aug 5, 2026
  2. bradygaster commented on Aug 7, 2026

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    Closing — Squad's gh-aw workflow deliberately does not use ambient-folders. PR #1622 shipped the artifact-based bootstrap approach as the permanent design. No migration path needed.

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