workato-dev-kit — Use Claude Code / Cursor to build recipes & connectors

ryotaro — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:40:38 GMT

Hey everyone 👋

Recently I've been building a bunch of MCP servers with Workato, and somewhere along the way I got hooked on using AI coding agents for everything. Claude Code, Cursor — once you start, it's hard to go back to doing things manually.

That got me thinking: why am I still clicking through the Workato UI to build recipes? So I started trying to use coding agents for recipe development too — and immediately ran into a wall. They'd hallucinate action names, get the JSON structure wrong, or confidently suggest connectors that don't exist.

So I built a toolkit to fix that: workato-dev-kit — a context layer that gives AI coding agents actual knowledge of Workato's recipe format, connector behaviors, and platform features.

https://github.com/rkawaishi/workato-dev-kit

It works as a git submodule on top of your workspace repo. Once set up, you can use slash commands like `/create-recipe`, `/create-connector`, or `/create-genie` and the AI actually produces valid Workato JSON that you can push with the Platform CLI.

It covers:
- 316 connectors with documented actions/triggers
- Recipe JSON generation
- Workflow App and MCP server scaffolding
- A learning cycle that improves from your own pulled recipes

I've been using this in real projects and honestly it's been working pretty well — recipes come out cleaner than I expected.

That said... AIRO is coming. Once that's out of private preview, this whole thing might be obsolete 😅 But until then, happy to share what I've got.

Curious if anyone else here has gone down this rabbit hole — using Claude Code or Cursor alongside the Platform CLI. Would love to compare notes.

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