Workato has announced the general availability of Workato Labs, a new open-source initiative aimed at helping developers and AI-powered coding assistants build, manage and deploy automation workflows more efficiently. The first release introduces an open-source toolkit featuring wk, a Go-based command-line interface (CLI), alongside tools that enable developers to build, validate and visualize Workato workflows, known as recipes, directly from local development environments. Designed to work with AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and GitHub Copilot, the toolkit provides code-first access to Workato without requiring developers to leave their preferred IDEs, terminals or version control systems. It includes Recipe Skills to help AI assistants generate accurate workflows, a Recipe Linter for deterministic local validation, and a Recipe Visualizer that renders recipes inside development environments such as VS Code, Cursor and Windsurf.
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The toolkit also supports tasks such as enterprise integration migrations, Git-based asset management and AI-assisted workflow creation. “AI coding assistants are core to how developers build,” said Adam Seligman, Chief Technology Officer and General Manager of AI Incubation at Workato. “Developers love code, and AI agents do too. Workato Labs extends Workato into developer tools, making it easier to build, validate, and manage Workato projects using the same tools developers already trust, like Claude Code and Codex.” Early adopters, including onXmaps, have already integrated the CLI into existing development practices, while Workato said the open-source initiative will continue evolving through community feedback and contributions.