workflows-modify

workflows-modify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zapier/agent-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (5,144 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for changing an existing Zapier workflow, which connects apps and automates tasks, using Zapier's experimental Code Workflows commands. It discovers the workflow, edits it, and can save or publish the change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fix, edit, or republish a deployed Zapier workflow, either by publishing immediately or leaving the change in a draft for review.
Why use it?
It provides a defined path for repairing or updating an already deployed workflow. Publishing changes a Zapier account, so the workflow includes a confirmation step before that happens.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-skills plugin — 6 skills shipped together

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/zapier/agent-skills/modify
Any agent
npx skills add zapier/agent-skills --skill modify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zapier/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,144 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 $0.00054 $0.05144
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.02572
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.01029
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00514

Measured 5d ago against content hash b1473745ab6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workflows-modify 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.

skills/workflows/modify/SKILL.md · 297 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 297 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Zapier Workflows Modify

Modifying a deployed workflow follows a discovery, fetch, edit, publish, verify pattern. There are two ways to publish a change, and the user chooses between them:

  • Direct publish — one publish-workflow-version call that creates and activates a new version immediately. Fastest path when the user wants the change live now.
  • Through a draft — save the change into the workflow's server draft (the working copy shared with the Zapier editor), then either publish the draft or leave it open for the user to review and publish later.

Publishing writes to the user's Zapier account, so get explicit confirmation before publishing either way.

Use the public SDK CLI experimental command surface. Do not use zapier-sdk-code-substrate.

Compatibility Gate

Before using this skill, run the workflows-doctor bundle compatibility check. If workflows-doctor is not installed or cannot be loaded, run workflows-install or install workflows-doctor from zapier/agent-skills before continuing. If workflows-doctor reports SDK/skill drift, follow its refresh instructions, stop this skill invocation, reload the agent workspace if needed, and ask the user to rerun the original request.

Step 1: Identify The Workflow

If the user provides a workflow ID, use it directly. Otherwise list workflows and find the matching one by name or description:

zapier-sdk --experimental list-workflows --json

If multiple workflows match, show candidates and ask the user which one to modify.

Step 2: Check For Open Drafts And Pick The Path

zapier-sdk --experimental list-workflow-drafts <workflow-id> --json

The list returns open drafts, most recently edited first. An open draft always holds unpublished work (publishing consumes drafts, so a leftover one was never published).

  • An open draft exists: work through the draft. It holds the user's in-progress edits and your change applies on top of it — and a direct publish would be rejected by the server's open-draft guard anyway (see Step 6A). If several are open, tell the user and confirm which to use.
  • No open draft: both paths are available. If the user's request already implies immediate publish ("fix it and ship it"), direct publish is the shorter path. If they want to review first, work incrementally, or hand off to the editor, use a draft. When the intent is unclear, ask: publish directly once the change is ready, or stage it as a draft to review/publish later?

Read the full file on GitHub · 297 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 · 297 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A b1473745ab6a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

workflows-modify is a skill published in the GitHub repository zapier/agent-skills (17 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 5,144 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-30.

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