// Install and configure Vercel Workflow SDK before it exists in node_modules. Use when the user asks to "install workflow", "set up workflow", "add durable workflows", "configure workflow sdk", or "init workflow" for Next.js, Express, Hono, Fastify, NestJS, Nitro, Nuxt, Astro, SvelteKit, or Vite.
| name | workflow-init |
| description | Install and configure Vercel Workflow SDK before it exists in node_modules. Use when the user asks to "install workflow", "set up workflow", "add durable workflows", "configure workflow sdk", or "init workflow" for Next.js, Express, Hono, Fastify, NestJS, Nitro, Nuxt, Astro, SvelteKit, or Vite. |
| metadata | {"author":"Vercel Inc.","version":"1.3"} |
Initial setup of Vercel Workflow SDK before workflow is installed. Fetch the official getting-started guide for the user's framework.
Read package.json. If workflow is already a dependency, tell the user to use /workflow instead (it reads versioned docs from node_modules/workflow/docs/). Only continue if workflow is missing.
Non-interactive: If the user named a framework in their prompt, use it directly.
Auto-detect: Inspect package.json deps and config files. Use the first match:
next dep or next.config.*nuxt dep or nuxt.config.*@sveltejs/kit dep or svelte.config.*astro dep or astro.config.*@nestjs/core dep or nest-cli.jsonnitro dep or nitro.config.*express depfastify dephono depvite dep (and not matched above)If no match or multiple matches, ask the user to pick.
Fetch exactly one of these URLs and follow the guide step-by-step:
Each guide covers: install deps, configure framework, create first workflow, create route handler, run + verify.
curl.npx workflow web or npx workflow inspect runs.If no framework exists, ask what the user wants:
Then follow the "Create Your Project" section of the chosen guide.
If the user asks conceptual questions before installing, fetch:
When setup is complete, tell the user: Use /workflow for ongoing development - it reads the versioned docs bundled in node_modules/workflow/docs/.
Spin up a portless + tmux dev session for the Workflow SDK that gives each git worktree isolated `<branch>.<name>.localhost` URLs for the Next.js workbench and the observability UI, plus a Claude statusline that surfaces those URLs. Use only when the user asks for a "portless dev session", a "tmux dev layout for workflow", "worktree-isolated dev URLs", or wants to wire workflow dev URLs into the Claude statusline. Do not activate for the generic "start the dev server" / "run pnpm dev" task.
Migrates Temporal, Inngest, Trigger.dev, and AWS Step Functions workflows to the Workflow SDK. Use when porting Activities, Workers, Signals, step.run(), step.waitForEvent(), Trigger.dev tasks / wait.forToken / triggerAndWait, ASL JSON state machines, Task/Choice/Wait/Parallel states, task tokens, or child workflows.
Creates durable, resumable workflows using Vercel's Workflow SDK. Use when building workflows that need to survive restarts, pause for external events, retry on failure, or coordinate multi-step operations over time. Triggers on mentions of "workflow", "durable functions", "resumable", "workflow sdk", "queue", "event", "push", "subscribe", or step-based orchestration.