workato-recipe-format

workato-recipe-format is a cursor rule for coding agents from rkawaishi/workato-dev-kit. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,620 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference for the JSON structure used to define Workato recipes, which are automated workflows. It describes required top-level fields and notes fields that Workato adds when recipes are saved through its interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when generating, editing, validating, or preserving Workato recipe JSON, including its trigger, action tree, connections, and version fields.
Why use it?
It helps you write recipe files in the expected shape and avoid treating interface-only fields as required input.

Cursor rule

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/rkawaishi/workato-dev-kit/workato-recipe-format
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rkawaishi/workato-dev-kit

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 2,620 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.02620
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01310
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00524
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00262

Measured 5d ago against content hash c47ea3f02ad2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workato-recipe-format scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

framework/cursor/rules/workato-recipe-format.mdc · 310 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 310 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workato Recipe JSON Format

Top-level structure

{
  "name": "Recipe name",
  "description": "Description (Markdown supported)",
  "version": 1,
  "private": true,
  "concurrency": 1,
  "code": { /* trigger + action tree */ },
  "config": [ /* connection configuration */ ]
}

format_version on the trigger inside code

Workato may stamp "format_version": 2 on the trigger step so it can distinguish a newer recipe structure (it appears after pulling a UI-saved recipe). You can omit it when generating from scratch, but preserve it on push.

UI-only fields (don't write them by hand, but they appear after pushing)

Field Where Meaning
dynamicPickListSelection step Display label for a pick-list selection. Example: {"event_name": "Slash Command (slash_command)"}
toggleCfg step Toggle state of input fields. true = custom-input mode, false = pick-list mode.
title action step Override for the action's display name (null = default).
description action step The action description returned by the connector (may include HTML spans). Added automatically on pull.
custom: true config's account_id Marks a custom-connector connection (added automatically on pull).

You can omit these when writing JSON by hand — Workato fills them in on push. Once present (e.g. after pull), keep them; do not delete them.

code: step tree (recursive)

Each step has:

Field Type Description
number int Step number (0-based; trigger is 0).
provider string Connector name (e.g. gmail, slack, salesforce).
name string Action name (e.g. new_email, post_message).
as string Step reference name (used in datapills).
keyword string "trigger" / "action" / "foreach".
input object Input parameters (may include datapill references).
block array Array of child steps (nestable).
filter object Conditional filter (optional).
comment string Step comment (optional).
uuid string UUID v4. 36 characters or fewer (do not prefix or extend it — push rejects longer values). The same limit applies to uuid fields inside filter.conditions[] and input.conditions[].
extended_output_schema array/null Custom output schema. Recommended on both triggers and actions — omitting it forces a UI refresh.
extended_input_schema array/null Custom input schema. Required on return_result and similar.

Read the full file on GitHub · 310 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 310 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c47ea3f02ad2

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workato-recipe-format is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository rkawaishi/workato-dev-kit (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,620 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.