kibana-workflows

A guide for creating and working with Elastic Workflows, which are YAML files that automate actions inside Kibana. Kibana is Elastic’s interface for searching and managing data in Elasticsearch.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, fix, validate, test, run, or inspect workflows that query data, branch, loop, call connectors, create cases, send notifications, or invoke AI steps.
Why use it?
It helps turn a plain-language automation idea into correctly structured workflow YAML and check it against a real Kibana setup.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/elastic/cursor-plugins/kibana-workflows
Any agent
npx skills add elastic/cursor-plugins --skill kibana-workflows
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elastic/cursor-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,360 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00057 $0.04360
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.02180
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00872
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00436

Measured 2d ago against content hash c075cd9b2a89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kibana-workflows 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to kibana-workflows — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

elastic/skills/kibana/kibana-workflows/SKILL.md · 303 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 303 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Author Elastic Workflows

Create and iterate on Elastic Workflow YAML definitions. Workflows are declarative automations that run inside Kibana: they query Elasticsearch, set data, branch, loop, call connectors, create cases, notify external systems, and invoke AI steps.

Environment Configuration

This skill executes Elasticsearch operations through the elastic CLI. Before running any other step, confirm the elastic CLI is installed and available. If it is not installed, ask the user:

"The elastic CLI is not available. You must install the elastic CLI before continuing?"

Wait for the user's response. Do not guess credentials, call the HTTP API directly, or attempt other workarounds.

This skill references operations in HTTP-shorthand form (e.g., GET /, GET /_cat/indices, GET /{index}/_mapping, GET /{index}/_settings/index.mode, POST /_query). The Operations table at the end of this document maps each shorthand to the equivalent elastic CLI command — always use the CLI rather than calling the HTTP API directly.

Verify the connection by calling GET /. If verification fails, point the user to the CLI configuration instructions.

If the user asks only for a draft or explanation and explicitly forbids live access, skip connection verification and do not call the CLI or APIs. State that the draft was not validated against a target deployment.

If workflow APIs are unavailable, report the returned status and message. Common causes are an unsupported Kibana version, insufficient license or feature privileges, or Workflows not being offered on the target project. The workflows:ui:enabled setting controls the Kibana UI; it does not remove the public Workflows APIs.

Pick the authoring path

Default to the Discovery-tools path below — the platform.workflows.* tools are registered by default on Kibana 9.5+ and Serverless. Confirm with one probe: GET kbn:/api/agent_builder/tools returns { "results": [ { "id": ... } ] }; save it to a file and grep for "id": "platform.workflows.". Two fallbacks, both loaded only when needed:

Read the full file on GitHub · 303 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 303 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A c075cd9b2a89

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kibana-workflows is a skill published in the GitHub repository elastic/cursor-plugins (31 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 4,360 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to kibana-workflows, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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