Workflow DevKit
Vercel's SDK for durable, resumable workflows in TypeScript.
Jobs, queues and workflows npm Apache-2.0
How Workflow DevKit is used
Workflow DevKit joined the catalog on its public numbers (1,061,786 downloads a week on npm and 2,463 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 13 public GitHub projects of our scan, 8 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Inngest (17 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Zod (100.0%), Next.js (92.3%), AI SDK (84.6%).
Workflow DevKit popularity over time
Gid Score 46: downloads 64, use in agent projects 21, GitHub stars 27, downloads trend 75 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Workflow DevKit
| Zod | 100.0% of Workflow DevKit projects · 4.0× more than average |
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| Next.js | 92.3% of Workflow DevKit projects · 5.2× more than average |
| AI SDK | 84.6% of Workflow DevKit projects · 19.2× more than average |
| React | 92.3% of Workflow DevKit projects · 2.8× more than average |
| Vercel Analytics | 61.5% of Workflow DevKit projects · 17.1× more than average |
| Lucide React | 69.2% of Workflow DevKit projects · 3.5× more than average |
| Class Variance Authority | 61.5% of Workflow DevKit projects · 3.8× more than average |
| tw-animate-css | 53.8% of Workflow DevKit projects · 5.9× more than average |
By coding agent
| Cursor | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
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Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Workflow DevKit as a dependency.
Agent Skills for Workflow DevKit
| workflow-orchestration-patterns from wshobson/agents | Design durable workflows with Temporal for distributed systems. Covers workflow vs activity separation, saga patterns, state management, and determinism constr…npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill workflow-orchestration-patterns |
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| workflow-from-chats from cursor/plugins | Extract durable working preferences from recent Cursor chats and convert them into skills, rules, or workflow docs. Use when asked to learn preferences, mine f…npx skills add cursor/plugins --skill workflow-from-chats |
| workflow-runner from jnMetaCode/superpowers-zh | 在 Claude Code / OpenClaw / Cursor 中直接运行 agency-orchestrator YAML 工作流——无需 API key，使用当前会话的 LLM 作为执行引擎。当用户提供 .yaml 工作流文件或要求多角色协作完成任务时触发。npx skills add jnMetaCode/superpowers-zh --skill workflow-runner |
| workflow-schema-tuning from breaking-brake/cc-wf-studio | Use when modifying `resources/workflow-schema.json` in cc-wf-studio to influence how AI agents generate workflows via the cc-workflow-ai-editor skill. Triggers…npx skills add breaking-brake/cc-wf-studio --skill workflow-schema-tuning |
| workflow-skill-creator from google-deepmind/science-skills | Distills a completed user workflow or interaction into a reusable agent skill. Use when the user asks to turn their workflow, interaction, or multi-step proces… has scriptsnpx skills add google-deepmind/science-skills --skill workflow-skill-creator |
| workflow from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace | Use when a task is too large for turn-by-turn orchestration and should run through the big-task workflow lane: system-wide changes, large migrations, repo-wide…npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill workflow |
Skills teach your coding agent how to use Workflow DevKit well. Official means the pack comes from the same GitHub account as Workflow DevKit. Read a skill before installing it: it can include scripts. All Agent Skills
Install
| Package | npm install workflow |
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| Main stacks | Next.js (12), TypeScript / JavaScript (1) |
| Example projects | vercel-labs/workflow-builder-template, LayerNorm/overlay-web, andrelandgraf/aileen, andrelandgraf/fullstackrecipes, mastra-ai/workflow-builder-template |
Alternatives to Workflow DevKit
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Workflow DevKit are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inngest npm Durable execution, events and queues platform for reliable workflows and background jobs. |
54 | 17 (0.4%) | 1.4M | 1,016 | Apache-2.0 |
| Trigger.dev npm · new in the catalog Background jobs and long-running tasks in TypeScript, with retries and queues. |
54 | 6 (0.1%) | 720K | 16.6K | MIT |
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