Workato Launches Workato Labs with a New Open-Source Developer Toolkit for Enterprise Orchestration

New toolkit gives developers and AI builders code-first access to Workato with a new CLI, AI skills, local validation, and visualization

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Workato®, the leading Enterprise Control and Execution Platform for AI, today announced the general availability of Workato Labs, a new home for open-source developer tools that bring Workato into the hands of AI-powered coders.

The first release from Workato Labs is an open-source toolkit built for developers and AI builders using AI coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and GitHub Copilot. It introduces wk, a new command-line interface (CLI), along with tools to build, validate, and visualize Workato workflows, known as recipes, directly from local development environments.

Whether a developer is asking Claude Code to build a marketing automation workflow, migrating hundreds of integrations, or managing Workato assets through git, the toolkit gives AI assistants and developers code-based access to Workato without leaving the tools they already use.

“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.”

Code-first access to Workato

Workato Labs is designed for developers to easily build Workato orchestrations, while working directly with tools they love like the terminal, IDEs, and git.

The initial toolkit includes:

• wk CLI, a new Go-based command-line interface for pulling, pushing, diffing, and managing Workato assets through a single lightweight binary
• Recipe Skills, connector-specific context for AI coding assistants, so they can generate Workato recipes with the right actions, fields, and structure
• Recipe Linter, deterministically validates recipes locally before deployment
• Recipe Visualizer, renders Workato recipes inside VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf

Together, these tools let developers use AI coding assistants to understand an existing Workato project, generate new recipes, validate changes, visualize execution, and deploy updates, all without leaving their development environment.

Early adoption demonstrates demand for developer-first automation

Organizations have already begun using the toolkit to support AI-assisted development, enterprise migrations, and large-scale Workato development.

At onXmaps, engineering teams adopted the CLI to bring Workato into the development practices they already use every day.

“The CLI felt immediately familiar to our team. As a developer, I live in the terminal,” said Todd Hayes, IT Operations Engineer at onXmaps. “This has fundamentally changed how I use the Workato platform.”

Open source and built in the open

Workato Labs is an open-source initiative where Workato experiments with new developer tooling alongside the community. Projects are developed in the open, with community feedback helping shape what comes next.

“We're building these tools in public because the best developer tools evolve with the people using them,” said Adam. “We are looking forward to great community feedback and contributions. Workato Labs is where we'll continue experimenting, learning, and sharing what we build.”

Workato Labs is available today on GitHub.

About Workato

Workato is the leading Enterprise Control and Execution Platform for AI — the neutral platform enterprises trust to put AI to work across their business. Workato unifies data, applications, and processes into a single platform so AI can reliably orchestrate business processes in production at enterprise scale. Built on more than a decade of running mission-critical processes for over half the Fortune 500 — including Nasdaq, Amazon, Cisco, Vodafone, Atlassian, and Lucid Motors — Workato turns over 14,000 enterprise systems AI needs to act on into one governed execution layer. Recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service for eight consecutive years, Workato is the strategic layer enterprises need for their transformative AI initiatives. For more information, visit workato.com.

Source: Workato