# workflows-create

This skill turns a plain-language description into a durable Zapier workflow, tests the draft, and publishes it through the Zapier SDK CLI.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 514 installs · ★ 22
- Author: zapier
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/zapier/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/workflows/create/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-16
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/workflows-create

## What it does

You describe the automation in words; the skill generates a TypeScript project in a kebab-case folder with `workflow.ts`, `package.json`, and any helper modules the source imports. The workflow is built with `defineDurable` from `@zapier/zapier-durable`, and every `ctx.step()` is journaled — on a retry or replay a finished step returns its recorded result instead of running again.

Everything goes through public Zapier SDK CLI commands: app and action discovery, connection listing, a test probe, draft creation, a test run, then publish. Before anything else the skill runs the `workflows-doctor` compatibility check; if that bundle is missing, `workflows-install` comes first. You also need app connections configured in your Zapier account, otherwise the workflow steps have nothing to run against.

The runtime engine version comes from `--zapier-durable-version`, and ranges like `^1.2.3` are rejected with a 400 — pass an exact version or `latest`. For `@zapier/zapier-sdk` pass `"latest"` and let the server resolve the newest release the sandbox can install. Declare dependencies in `--dependencies`, since the sandbox installs from that flag rather than your local `package.json`.

## Requirements
- Works with: Zapier

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add zapier/agent-skills --skill workflows-create -a claude-code
```
```bash
npx skills add zapier/agent-skills --skill create -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/create/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/create/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add zapier/agent-skills --skill create -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/create/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add zapier/agent-skills --skill create -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/create/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install zapier/agent-skills create
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/create/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add zapier/agent-skills --skill create -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/zapier/agent-skills --path skills/workflows/create
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/create/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add zapier/agent-skills --skill create -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/zapier/agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/workflows/create/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a multi-step automation across Zapier-connected apps from a text brief
- get a TypeScript workflow project with journaled steps
- test a draft run before publishing
- publish a workflow and confirm it is live
- find the right apps, actions and connections for a task

## Example prompts
- build me a Zap that takes form submissions and posts them to Slack
- create a durable workflow: new CRM lead → email and a row in the sheet
- automate a three-step process across my connected apps

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: workflows-create
description: Create a durable Zapier workflow from natural language using @zapier/zapier-durable and the Zapier SDK CLI. Use when the user wants to build a Zapier workflow, create an automation, write a durable workflow, build me a Zap that, create a durable that, or automate a multi-step process involving Zapier-connected apps.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: zapier
  version: "1.8.0"
  sdk_cli_min: "0.85.0"
  sdk_cli_validated: "0.86.4"
  refresh_source: "zapier/agent-skills"
---

# Zapier Workflows Create

Create a complete durable workflow from natural language, test it when appropriate, and deploy it through the Zapier SDK experimental Code Workflows commands.

Use the public SDK CLI path. Do not use `zapier-sdk-code-substrate`.

## Compatibility gate

Before using this skill, run the `workflows-doctor` bundle compatibility check. If `workflows-doctor` is not installed or cannot be loaded, run `workflows-install` or install `workflows-doctor` from `zapier/agent-skills` before continuing. If it reports SDK/skill drift, follow its refresh instructions, stop this skill invocation, reload the agent workspace if needed, and ask the user to rerun the original request.

## Prerequisites

Verify at the start:

```bash
zapier-sdk --version
zapier-sdk get-profile --json
zapier-sdk --stability experimental --help
```

Pass `"latest"` for `@zapier/zapier-sdk`. The server resolves it to the newest release the sandbox can install and stores the exact version on publish; drafts store the supplied value verbatim. You need no registry access and no publish-date arithmetic. This is not npm's `latest` tag: the sandbox installs with `pnpm install --config.minimumReleaseAge=1440` and `@zapier/zapier-sdk` publishes several times a day, so that tag frequently points at a release too new to install.

`--zapier-durable-version` sets the runtime engine version; never put `@zapier/zapier-durable` in `--dependencies`. Omit the flag by default; a new draft gets the server's supported version, and updates preserve its stored pin. Pass it explicitly only when carrying forward a version captured from `get-workflow-version` on a republish, or when deliberately pinning or upgrading. Ranges (`^1.2.3`, `~1.2`) are rejected with a 400 for the durable runtime version, so an explicit value must be an exact version or `latest`.
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