Broaden zapier-sdk-explorer scope beyond durable workflows#10
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The agent was previously scoped exclusively to durable-workflow authoring, so callers researching read-only SDK questions (available actions, action parameters, connections) skipped it and reinvented action discovery by hand. Broaden the description and body to cover any read-only SDK investigation, with two documented output modes: prose + cited commands for one-off questions (default), or the existing JSON build-plan contract for durable-workflow authoring. Grounding rules, tool allowlist, investigation strategy, and JSON schema are unchanged.
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Summary
The
zapier-sdk-exploreragent was scoped exclusively to durable-workflow authoring. In practice, callers researching general SDK usage — "what actions does this app expose?", "what fields does this action take?", "which connection should I use?" — read that description and skipped the agent, reinventing read-only action discovery by hand with pipedlist-actions/list-action-input-fields/grepinvocations. That pattern is slow, noisy, and misses the agent's grounding rules.This change broadens the agent to cover any read-only SDK investigation, with two documented output modes:
Grounding rules (rules 1–8), the allowed CLI surface, the investigation strategy for workflow plans, and the JSON schema itself are all unchanged. The edits are surgical: frontmatter description, opening body framing, output-format section split, and the "What you are not" paragraph.
Why now
Read-only SDK discovery is emerging as a distinct use case from durable-workflow authoring — agents and humans both increasingly want to answer "how do I use action X?" without committing to a full workflow scaffold. Keeping this agent scoped only to the workflow path leaves the discovery lane uncovered and pushes callers to grep-and-guess.
Test plan
implementation_id, 20-tool-call cap, sensitive-partner list, Catch Hook special case) still fire for workflow-authoring requests.