# workflows-doctor

Audits Zapier Workflows skills against the installed Zapier SDK CLI to catch command drift and verify draft execution capabilities.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 538 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/doctor/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-16
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/workflows-doctor

## What it does

This skill inspects whether your local Zapier SDK CLI supports the entire Zapier Workflows skill bundle. The bundle acts as one unit. Instead of verifying single skills in isolation, it starts with `scripts/skill-freshness-check.sh`, which throttles `npx skills update` to run roughly once a day per project without blocking ongoing work.

Next, the skill checks `zapier-sdk --version` against the required baseline. The bundle relies on `0.85.0` as its minimum CLI version, which first added the `--stability experimental` flag needed by draft runners. It then queries SDK help output to confirm essential draft operations: reading, running via `run-workflow-draft`, and publishing.

Without `@zapier/zapier-sdk-cli` version `0.85.0` or higher, workflow drafting skills fail due to deprecated execution flags.

## Requirements
- Works with: Zapier

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add zapier/agent-skills --skill doctor -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/doctor/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- diagnose CLI drift between Zapier skills and the local SDK
- verify support for experimental draft execution flags
- keep workflow skills updated against the official repository
- validate required workflow draft capabilities before building automations

## Example prompts
- Run workflows-doctor to check my zapier-sdk compatibility
- Check if my local Zapier CLI supports the workflow skill bundle
- Verify zapier-sdk commands before creating a new workflow draft

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
name: workflows-doctor
description: Diagnose Zapier Workflows skill and SDK CLI compatibility. Use when a workflow skill asks for a compatibility check, when SDK commands or flags are missing, when a workflow skill may be stale, or when updating workflow skills after an SDK CLI change.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: zapier
  version: "1.5.0"
  sdk_cli_min: "0.85.0"  # first @zapier/zapier-sdk-cli with --stability (run-workflow-draft since 0.82.0)
  sdk_cli_validated: "0.86.4"
  refresh_source: "zapier/agent-skills"
---

# Zapier Workflows Doctor

Diagnose whether the installed Zapier SDK CLI can support the Zapier Workflows skill bundle. Be diagnostic first. Do not refresh skills unless SDK/skill drift is detected or compatibility cannot be confirmed.

## Compatibility Metadata

Workflow skills use these metadata fields:

- `sdk_cli_min`: oldest SDK CLI version the skill is allowed to run against. Set it to the first SDK CLI version that supports the newest command or flag the skill depends on. If that exact first-supported version is uncertain, use the SDK CLI version used when introducing the skill instruction change.
- `sdk_cli_validated`: SDK CLI version used during the latest validation pass. Update it whenever workflow skills are intentionally tested and republished against a newer SDK CLI, even if `sdk_cli_min` does not change.
- `refresh_source`: canonical skill source. For these skills, keep this as `zapier/agent-skills`.

Command-surface checks verify required bundle capabilities only. They do not prove full workflow correctness or that JSON payload semantics are unchanged.

## Step 0: Daily Skill-Freshness Check

Run this before the SDK compatibility steps below. It keeps the workflow skills current with `zapier/agent-skills` even when the SDK CLI has not changed, by occasionally running `npx skills update` for the bundle. It is **soft and non-blocking**: it self-throttles to roughly once per day per project, never stops the calling skill, and prints nothing unless it actually applied an update.

Run it exactly once, then continue to Step 1 regardless of its output. Do **not** parse or branch on the result:

```bash
bash scripts/skill-freshness-check.sh
```

Resolve `scripts/skill-freshness-check.sh` relative to this skill's own directory. The script locates the installed skill bundle from its own path and runs the bundle update from the scope root that contains it (the directory holding `.agents`/`.claude`), so it does not matter which directory you invoke it from.

- If it prints a note that skills were refreshed, pass that note along to the user and keep going; the update takes full effect on the next workspace reload.
- If it prints nothing, say nothing and continue.
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