Webflow Cli:Cloud

Webflow Cloud

Initialize new projects from templates or an existing GitHub repository, deploy to Webflow Cloud, and manage existing apps (list, inspect, logs, deployments, environments, environment variables). Deploys support two modes: site-attached (deploy to an existing Webflow site) and project app (deploy as an independent app, no existing site required).

Namespaces: apps (canonical) vs cloud (deprecated alias)

webflow apps <command> is the canonical namespace for Webflow Cloud. webflow cloud <command> still works — its init / deploy forms are aliases of the same handler — but is deprecated in favor of apps.

Running a command through cloud init / cloud deploy prints a one-time deprecation notice on stderr pointing at the apps form (suppressed with --json).

Prefer the apps forms in all new work. This skill shows apps commands throughout; every apps init / apps deploy invocation can be run as cloud init / cloud deploy with identical flags, apart from --import (init) and --json/--dry-run (deploy).

Instructions

Step 0: Verify CLI is installed

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webflow --version

If the command is not found, install it:

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npm install -g @webflow/webflow-cli@latest
# or yarn global add @webflow/webflow-cli@latest
# or pnpm add -g @webflow/webflow-cli@latest

Then proceed to state detection.

Step 1: Detect project state

Run both checks before deciding which path to follow:

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# Is this project already set up on Webflow Cloud?
cat webflow.json

# Is there a git remote?
git remote get-url origin 2>/dev/null

Quick reference (the CLI now writes cloud.app_id; older manifests may carry the legacy cloud.project_id, which is still read as a fallback):

You are running without a TTY. The CLI's interactive prompts only fire when process.stdin.isTTY is true. As an agent invoking the CLI through a subprocess, you do not have a TTY — every prompt is silently skipped, and any required value that wasn't passed as a flag triggers a hard error like --app-name cannot be empty.

Rule for every command in this skill: pass all required flags explicitly. Never rely on prompts. Pass --no-input when the CLI accepts it to make this contract explicit. The required flag set per command:

Command	Always pass
apps init (site-attached)	--no-input --app-name <3–39 chars> --framework <astro|nextjs|vite> --mount <path> --site-id <id>
apps init --new (app)	--no-input --app-name <3–39 chars> --framework <astro|nextjs|vite|static> --workspace-id <id>
apps init --import (site-attached)	--no-input --import <repo-url> --site-id <id> --mount <non-root path> --idempotency-key <key>
apps init --import --new (project app)	--no-input --import <repo-url> --new --idempotency-key <key> — no --mount
apps deploy (site-attached)	--no-input --mount <path> --environment <env> --site-id <id> plus --app-name on first deploy
apps deploy (project app, first deploy)	--no-input --mount <path> --environment <env> --workspace-id <id> --app-name <name>

--site-id, --app-id, --framework, and --workspace-id on apps deploy let agents override what's in webflow.json at deploy time.

Multi-workspace tokens used to be an agent-fatal hang because workspace selection had no non-TTY path. Now pass --workspace-id to skip the picker. The workspace ID is not surfaced anywhere in the Webflow dashboard UI — users can't look it up by hand. If the agent doesn't have it, ask the user to run webflow apps deploy interactively once from inside their project. The preflight prompts for workspace selection and writes cloud.workspace_id to webflow.json; from that point the agent can read it from the manifest and pass --workspace-id on subsequent runs. Do not suggest apps init --new for ID discovery — on an existing project it creates a discarded scratch directory. Exception: in Path A2 (empty directory) it is safe to try apps init --new without --workspace-id to auto-resolve a single-workspace token — see Path A2.

Site IDs are visible in the dashboard. When --site-id is needed but unknown, do not ask the user for a raw site_XXXX value — use webflow sites list to fetch their sites and present a picker keyed by display name. Users can still check their dashboard to fetch it.

Read/manage commands don't need --workspace-id. The apps list / get / domains / environments / deployments / logs / env-vars commands derive the workspace server-side from the OAuth token — they have no --workspace-id flag and never prompt for a workspace. See Managing apps.

Path A: No app_id — new project

The project has not been deployed yet. Before doing anything else, ask the user two questions:

1. "Do you already have source code for this project (an existing Next.js or Astro codebase), or are you starting from an empty directory and want a Webflow starter scaffold?"
2. If they have code: "Is it already pushed to a GitHub repository, and do you want Webflow to build from that repo (rather than from your local files)?"

Those answers choose the branch — and the three are meaningfully different:

The A1 vs A3 choice is not cosmetic — it decides what the app can do later. A GitHub-connected app (A3) can use apps deployments trigger / redeploy, and is the only kind eligible for dashboard push-to-deploy. An app first created by a local apps deploy (A1) is not GitHub-connected, so trigger / redeploy refuse it. If the user's code is already on GitHub and they say anything about CI, automatic deploys, rollbacks, or "deploy when I push", route to A3, not A1.

Recoverable either way: an A1 app can be pointed at a repo afterwards with apps update --github-source <repo-url> (see apps update) — but choosing A3 up front avoids the extra step.

After the branch decision, also ask site-attached vs app (only relevant before the first deploy):

If the user is ambiguous on either question, ask. Do not default.

Path A1: existing codebase, deploying from local files

Check A3 first if the code is on GitHub. This path uploads and builds local files, producing an app that is not GitHub-connected — apps deployments trigger / redeploy and dashboard push-to-deploy will all refuse it. If the repo is on GitHub and the user wants Webflow to build from it, use Path A3 instead.

The user has working source. apps deploy handles everything — framework detection runs against package.json, and the preflight phase resolves identity from flags or prompts the user. No apps init needed, no webflow.json to hand-write up front.

Step 1: One-time auth (human-only). Tell the user to run this locally; agents cannot drive the browser flow:

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webflow auth login

Step 2: Deploy. The exact form depends on what the agent knows.

A1-a — Site-attached, --site-id is known:

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webflow apps deploy --no-input \
  --site-id site_abc123 \
  --app-name my-app \
  --framework nextjs \
  --mount /app \
  --environment main \
  --skip-mount-path-check \
  --skip-update-check

--framework is optional if package.json has a detectable signal: the Cloudflare adapter for nextjs/astro (@opennextjs/cloudflare, @astrojs/cloudflare), or the vite package itself for vite. Pass it explicitly for monorepos or when auto-detection is unreliable.

If the agent doesn't know the user's --site-id, do not ask for a raw site_XXXX value — use webflow sites list to fetch the user's sites and present readable display names to pick from.

A1-b — Project app, --workspace-id is known:

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webflow apps deploy --no-input \
  --workspace-id ws_abc123 \
  --app-name my-app \
  --framework nextjs \
  --mount / \
  --environment main \
  --skip-mount-path-check \
  --skip-update-check

A1-c — Project app, workspace ID is unknown (the common gap):

The workspace ID is not visible anywhere in the Webflow dashboard UI. Users cannot look it up by hand — the only way to discover it is to run the CLI. So the path is:

Ask the user to run one interactive deploy locally. From inside their project directory:

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webflow apps deploy

With no --no-input and no identity flags, the preflight prompts: "This project isn't initialized for Webflow Cloud. How would you like to deploy?" → user picks "Create a new app" → workspace picker → done. After this one human-driven deploy, cloud.workspace_id and siteId are written to webflow.json and WEBFLOW_SITE_ID to .env. The agent can then run all subsequent deploys with --site-id (the newly provisioned site).

Do not ask the user to run apps init --new to "discover" their workspace ID. On an existing project that creates a discarded ./<app-name>/ scratch directory with a hello-world scaffold inside the user's repo. Use the interactive apps deploy path above — it discovers the workspace ID and completes the first deploy in the same step.

Step 3: Set up git (if not already) — same as Path A2 step 3 below.

Path A2: empty directory, scaffold from scratch

1. Scaffold the project — pick the form that matches the user's intent:

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   # Project app (no site attachment). --workspace-id avoids the multi-workspace hang.
   webflow apps init --new --no-input \
     --app-name my-app \
     --framework astro \
     --workspace-id ws_abc123
   

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   # Site-attached (connect to an existing Webflow site). Requires --site-id.
   webflow apps init --no-input \
     --app-name my-app \
     --framework astro \
     --mount /app \
     --site-id site_abc123
   

   See apps init for all flags.

   Workspace ID discovery for project apps in Path A2 only: because Path A2 starts from an empty directory, apps init --new creates a fresh scaffold either way — there's nothing to pollute. So if the agent doesn't have --workspace-id, it's safe to try apps init --new without it first:

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   # Try this first if --workspace-id is unknown (Path A2 only — empty dir)
   webflow apps init --new --no-input \
     --app-name my-app \
     --framework astro
   

   • Single-workspace tokens: the CLI auto-selects the only workspace, writes cloud.workspace_id to webflow.json, and exits 0. Read it back from the manifest and pass it as --workspace-id to apps deploy in step 2.
   • Multi-workspace tokens: the workspace picker fires and the command hangs (no TTY). Set a 30-second timeout on the Bash call (or wrap the command in timeout 30s ...) — a successful single-workspace init completes in 10–20 seconds (OAuth check + GET /v2/workspaces + scaffold download from GitHub), so anything past 30s with no output is the picker hanging. Once the timeout fires, ask the user for the workspace ID directly and re-run with --workspace-id.

   For site-attached in Path A2, there is no equivalent auto-discovery — --site-id is always required up front. Use the site picker pattern below to help the user pick.

   Path A1 (existing codebase) does not get this trick. Running apps init --new in an existing project creates a discarded scratch subdirectory. The Path A1 workspace-ID discovery path stays as documented in Path A1-c.

Path A3: existing GitHub repository, GitHub-connected app

The user's code is already on GitHub and they want Webflow to build from the repository rather than from local files. apps init --import <repo-url> creates the app bound to that repo and clones it locally.

apps-only. --import exists only under apps init — there is deliberately no cloud init --import. If the user is on the cloud namespace for another reason, fall back to Path A1 and attach the repo later with apps update --github-source.

Step 0: Prerequisite — the Webflow GitHub App. It must be installed on the repository owner and connected to the workspace. The CLI cannot do this; it's dashboard/GitHub-side setup. If the import fails on permissions, this is the first thing to check.

Step 1: One-time auth (human-only). Same as A1 — agents cannot drive the browser flow:

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webflow auth login

Step 2: Import. Exactly one of --site-id or --new is required — the CLI will not infer the target from anything inside the repo.

A3-a — Site-attached (--mount is required and must be non-root):

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webflow apps init --import https://github.com/acme/site \
  --site-id 6234abc --mount /app --dry-run

webflow apps init --import https://github.com/acme/site \
  --site-id 6234abc --mount /app

A3-b — Project app (--mount is not allowed — a project app owns the root of its own domain):

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webflow apps init --import https://github.com/acme/site --new

A3-c — Non-interactive / CI. --idempotency-key is required here. Use a retry-stable key unique to this repo + target (e.g. $GITHUB_RUN_ID-$REPOSITORY-$SITE_ID) so a retry replays the original app instead of creating a second one:

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webflow apps init --import https://github.com/acme/site --new --no-input \
  --idempotency-key "$GITHUB_RUN_ID-acme-site" \
  --branch main --json

Add --skip-clone to register the app without writing anything to the filesystem — the app and environment IDs are printed instead. Useful when the repo is already checked out, or when running somewhere you don't want a clone.

--branch picks which branch builds; it defaults to the repository's default branch.

Step 3: Enable push-to-deploy (dashboard, manual). The import connects the app to the repo, but pushing does not deploy until the dashboard wiring is done — see the full workflow example, steps 3 onward. Until then, build on demand:

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webflow apps deployments trigger --json

Do not run apps deploy on an A3 app to "push an update". That uploads local files and is the A1 model; for a GitHub-connected app the equivalents are deployments trigger (build current HEAD) and deployments redeploy <depId> (re-run a past commit, i.e. roll back).

Picking a --site-id from a list

When --site-id is needed (Path A1 site-attached, Path A2 site-attached, or anywhere else) and the user hasn't given one, use webflow sites list --json to enumerate sites the token can see, then present a short list of readable names for the user to choose from. The site ID is visible in the Webflow dashboard URL config, but a numeric-ID prompt is bad UX; surface display names instead unless asked for IDs.

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# Returns a JSON array of sites with id, displayName, lastPublished, etc.
webflow sites list --json

Workflow:

1. Run webflow sites list --json. The CLI exits 0 with a JSON array.

2. Parse the output. Show the user a short list keyed by displayName (and lastPublished if the user has many sites). Example:

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   Which site should this project deploy to?
   
   1. Acme Marketing  (last published 2 days ago)
   2. Acme Docs       (last published 3 weeks ago)
   3. Acme Internal   (never published)
   

3. Map the user's pick back to its id field. Pass that as --site-id.

If webflow sites list errors (auth missing / expired), surface the error and ask the user to run webflow auth login locally; do not try to drive it from the agent.

2. Deploy: pick the form matching the init form above. Pass --site-id (or --workspace-id for project-app first deploy) so the deploy can't misread the manifest if something is half-written.

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   # Project-app first deploy — provisions the Cloud site/app/env
   webflow apps deploy \
     --no-input \
     --app-name my-app \
     --workspace-id ws_abc123 \
     --mount / \
     --environment main \
     --skip-mount-path-check \
     --skip-update-check
   

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   # Site-attached first deploy — uses the existing Webflow site
   webflow apps deploy \
     --no-input \
     --app-name my-app \
     --site-id site_abc123 \
     --mount /app \
     --environment main \
     --skip-mount-path-check \
     --skip-update-check
   

   This creates the app on Webflow Cloud and sets cloud.app_id in webflow.json. Commit the updated webflow.json.

3. Set up git (if not already):

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   git init && git add . && git commit -m "init"
   git remote add origin https://github.com/your-org/my-app.git
   git push -u origin main
   

4. (Optional) Enable push-to-deploy via the Webflow dashboard. Pushing to GitHub alone does not trigger deploys — that wiring lives in the Webflow dashboard, not in the CLI or the repo. Tell the user:

   1. Open the Webflow dashboard → their Cloud app → Settings → Git
   2. Connect their GitHub account, then select the repository and branch
   3. Confirm — the dashboard runs one initial deploy automatically to verify the connection
   4. From that moment on, every push to the connected branch triggers a deploy

   The CLI cannot perform any of these steps. If the user skips this, every deploy must be a manual webflow apps deploy invocation (Path B–style) or a CI/CD pipeline.

If a deploy auth error occurs in step 2: run webflow auth login, complete the browser flow, then retry.

Path B: app_id exists, no git remote — existing project, no git

The project is already on Webflow Cloud but has no git repo. Deploy directly and nudge toward git setup.

1. Deploy: read webflow.json first. If siteId is set, pass --site-id matching it. If only cloud.workspace_id is set, pass --workspace-id matching it.

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   webflow apps deploy \
     --no-input \
     --site-id site_abc123 \
     --mount / \
     --environment main \
     --skip-mount-path-check \
     --skip-update-check
   

2. Nudge toward push-to-deploy: suggest the user initialize a git repo, push to GitHub, and then connect the repo in the Webflow dashboard (app → Settings → Git). The dashboard step is what activates push-to-deploy — the CLI can't do this. See Path A, steps 3–4.

If a deploy auth error occurs: run webflow auth login, complete the browser flow, then retry step 1.

Path C: app_id exists + git remote — possibly ideal

The project is deployed and has a git remote, but the existence of a remote is not proof that push-to-deploy is wired up. That wiring is a dashboard-side connection that the CLI can't introspect. Confirm before suggesting anything.

Always ask the user: "Is this repo connected to your Webflow Cloud app in the dashboard (app → Settings → Git, with a branch selected)?" The answer changes the recommendation:

• Yes, connected — push-to-deploy is active. The only action needed is git push. Do not suggest re-linking or re-deploying.
• No, not connected — git push does nothing on the Webflow side. Either run a manual deploy now, or have the user connect the repo in the dashboard first to activate push-to-deploy for future commits.
• Don't know — assume not connected and recommend the dashboard connection (one-time setup, then push-to-deploy is permanent).

1. If connected — just commit and push:

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   git add .
   git commit -m "your message"
   git push
   

   Webflow Cloud picks up the push and deploys automatically. The first deploy after connection is run by the dashboard itself; subsequent pushes are picked up automatically.

2. If not connected — two routes:

   • Activate push-to-deploy for future commits (recommended). Tell the user to open the Webflow dashboard → their Cloud app → Settings → Git, connect the repo, select the branch. The dashboard runs an initial deploy automatically to verify the connection. From then on, every git push to that branch deploys.
   • One-off manual deploy now, without enabling push-to-deploy. Pass --site-id matching the siteId in webflow.json:

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     webflow apps deploy \
       --no-input \
       --site-id site_abc123 \
       --mount / \
       --environment main \
       --skip-mount-path-check \
       --skip-update-check
     

     This deploys the current state but does not wire up push-to-deploy. The next git push will still be a no-op on the Webflow side.

If a deploy auth error occurs: run webflow auth login, complete the browser flow, then retry.

Tool usage

• Use the Bash tool for all webflow apps / webflow cloud commands
• Use the Read tool to examine webflow.json, package.json — never modify these directly
• Use the Glob tool to discover project files
• Do not use Webflow MCP tools for CLI workflows

Authentication

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# Interactive — local-only, opens a browser. NOT for agents or CI.
webflow auth login

webflow auth login performs an OAuth flow in the user's browser and then writes the token to .env. It refuses to run with --no-input (exits with No-input mode enabled. Aborting OAuth authentication). Agents cannot drive this command. If webflow auth login is needed (missing or expired token), ask the user to run it locally once and report back when it's done.

The CLI writes the same token env var for both modes. There is no per-mode split.

webflow auth login writes to .env:

After the first project-app deploy, the CLI provisions a site on the backend and writes WEBFLOW_SITE_ID to .env. From that point on, the project behaves like a site-attached project — but the token env var is still WEBFLOW_API_TOKEN.

Deprecated legacy: WEBFLOW_SITE_API_TOKEN (and WEBFLOW_WORKSPACE_API_TOKEN) are read-only legacy fallbacks. The CLI never writes them, but if it finds one of them set in the environment when WEBFLOW_API_TOKEN is not set, it uses the legacy value and prints a deprecation warning on every run. Do not put WEBFLOW_SITE_API_TOKEN in .env or CI secrets for new projects — use WEBFLOW_API_TOKEN.

Other env vars (any mode):

WEBFLOW_SITE_ID env var is read-only. Used at runtime when no flag or manifest value is set, but never written back to webflow.json. Setting WEBFLOW_SITE_ID=X in .env will not update the manifest — only apps init, apps deploy, and the manifest itself drive that.

GitHub Secrets: use WEBFLOW_API_TOKEN for the token in every mode. Also set WEBFLOW_SITE_ID for site-attached projects and project apps that have already had their first deploy. Never commit .env files. If existing CI uses WEBFLOW_SITE_API_TOKEN, rename it — the deploy will still succeed but every run prints a deprecation warning until you switch.

Configuration — webflow.json

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{
  "siteId": "site_abc123",
  "cloud": {
    "app_id": "app_xyz",
    "environment_id": "env_xyz",
    "workspace_id": "ws_xyz",
    "framework": "nextjs",
    "skipMountPathCheck": false
  }
}

All cloud.* keys are snake_case (app_id, not appId).

The CLI also writes cloud.deployment_type ("ssr" | "ssg" | "spa"), cloud.entrypoint_path, and cloud.framework_version into the bundled webflow.json at build time (these power the cosmic deployer's wrangler config and telemetry). They're build-time outputs — do not strip them from the source webflow.json if you find them there; missing values silently break Next.js server-side deploys.

ID resolution and env vars

A shared resolver resolves siteId, appId, environmentId, and workspaceId in a strict priority order:

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explicit flag / positional arg  >  env var  >  webflow.json manifest  >  interactive prompt  >  error

Env vars are read-only — they are never persisted back to the manifest. When a value comes from the manifest, the CLI logs a Using <resource> from webflow.json line (suppressed with --json). When nothing resolves and the command can't prompt (--no-input, CI=true, or no TTY), it exits with a machine-readable missingFlag on the error — see the --no-input contract in Managing apps.

cloud.framework resolution at deploy time:

1. webflow.json exists with cloud.framework — used as-is. Invalid value exits with code 1.
2. webflow.json exists but cloud.framework is absent — falls back to detecting from package.json.
3. No webflow.json — auto-detected from package.json. CLI writes a new webflow.json on success.

Projects created via apps init always land in case 1.

Commands

webflow cloud list

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webflow cloud list

Lists available scaffold templates (used by init). Check this before apps init --framework to confirm valid scaffold IDs. This is distinct from apps list (which lists your deployed apps) and lives only under the cloud namespace. Deprecated ahead of removal — it still works but prints a warning; prefer apps init --framework <bad-value> or --help to see valid scaffold IDs.

webflow apps init

Bootstrap a new app locally. Two modes: site-attached and app. (webflow cloud init is a deprecated alias with identical flags.)

Site-attached (connects to an existing Webflow site):

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# Agent / non-TTY — always pass every flag
webflow apps init \
  --no-input \
  --app-name my-app \
  --framework nextjs \
  --mount /app \
  --site-id site_abc123

# Human at a real terminal — interactive prompts will fill in any missing flag
webflow apps init

Flags:

Credential resolution for --no-input site-attached: --site-id flag → siteId in webflow.json → WEBFLOW_SITE_ID env var → error.

After scaffolding a site-attached project, the CLI automatically runs a DevLink sync.

Project app (no site attachment):

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# Agent / non-TTY — always pass --workspace-id to skip the workspace picker
webflow apps init --new --no-input \
  --app-name my-app \
  --framework nextjs \
  --workspace-id ws_abc123

# Human at a real terminal — prompts for workspace if not passed
webflow apps init --new

If the token sees multiple workspaces and the agent doesn't have a workspace ID, ask the user to run webflow apps deploy interactively from inside their project — the preflight prompt picks a workspace and writes cloud.workspace_id to webflow.json for subsequent agent-driven runs. The workspace ID is not exposed in the Webflow dashboard UI, so the interactive CLI run is the only practical way to discover it.

Workspace selection (project-app mode only): if --workspace-id is not passed, the CLI calls GET /v2/workspaces to enumerate workspaces the token has access to. Single workspace is auto-selected; multiple workspaces trigger an interactive picker. With --workspace-id the API roundtrip is skipped — the CLI trusts the flag and surfaces a 404 later via createCloudApp if it's invalid. The chosen ID is persisted as cloud.workspace_id in webflow.json.

Agent caveat: if the user's token sees more than one workspace and the agent can't pass --workspace-id, the picker fires and hangs in non-TTY contexts. The workspace ID is not visible in the Webflow dashboard UI, so the recovery is: ask the user to run webflow apps deploy interactively once from inside their project. The preflight prompt picks the workspace, completes a first deploy, and writes cloud.workspace_id (plus siteId, app_id, environment_id) to webflow.json. The agent can then read the workspace ID from the manifest and pass --workspace-id (or --site-id, now that the site exists) on subsequent runs. To target a different workspace later, delete cloud.workspace_id and have the user repeat the interactive deploy.

webflow apps init --import <repo-url> (apps only)

Creates a Cloud app from an existing GitHub repository instead of a starter template, and clones it locally. This is the intake path for a codebase that already exists on GitHub — no scaffold is generated and no framework is chosen.

This flag attaches to apps init only. There is deliberately no cloud init --import: the repo-intake path creates real apps, so it stays on the canonical namespace rather than the deprecated alias.

Prerequisite: the Webflow GitHub App must be installed on the repository and connected to your workspace. Without it the create fails — the CLI cannot install it for you, and this is dashboard-side setup.

A siteId found inside the repository is never used to pick the target — you must say --site-id or --new explicitly.

The import-only flags (--branch, --idempotency-key, --skip-clone, --json) are rejected, not ignored, when --import is absent; likewise --framework / --workspace-id / --project-name are rejected with --import (a repo brings its own code, and the workspace is derived from the token). Each refusal names the offending flag machine-readably via missingFlag, so an agent can correct the call without parsing prose.

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# Attach an existing repo to an existing site at /app
webflow apps init --import https://github.com/acme/site \
  --site-id 6234abc --mount /app --dry-run

webflow apps init --import https://github.com/acme/site \
  --site-id 6234abc --mount /app

# Project app from a repo, CI-safe (note: --idempotency-key required, no --mount)
webflow apps init --import https://github.com/acme/site --new --no-input \
  --idempotency-key "$GITHUB_RUN_ID-acme-site" \
  --branch main --json

# Register the app without touching the local filesystem
webflow apps init --import https://github.com/acme/site --new --skip-clone --json

webflow cloud create (deprecated)

webflow cloud create <name> still works but emits a deprecation warning and will be removed in a future major release. It's hardcoded to /app mount in site-attached mode and offers a strict subset of apps init. Always prefer apps init (or apps init --new for app mode).

webflow apps deploy

webflow cloud deploy is a deprecated alias of apps deploy with identical flags and handler.

Preflight phase: identity resolution. Before any backend call, apps deploy runs a preflight step that resolves whether this is a site-attached deploy or a project-app first deploy. Resolution order (first match wins):

Env vars beat the manifest, and site beats workspace. Both halves matter: an exported WEBFLOW_SITE_ID overrides manifest.siteId, and any resolved site short-circuits before workspace resolution is even attempted — so a stale WEBFLOW_SITE_ID in the environment silently wins over a manifest configured for a project-app deploy. Unset it, or pass --workspace-id explicitly, when that isn't what you want.

This preflight phase exists to prevent the project-app deploy path from running and provisioning a Cloud app before identity is locked in — earlier versions could orphan a new Webflow site if any later step failed.

Pass --site-id or --workspace-id explicitly whenever you can. It defends against half-written manifests and removes the dependence on whatever state apps init happened to leave behind. If the user wants site-attached, pass --site-id. For project-app first deploy, pass --workspace-id.

Project-app first deploy (triggered by --workspace-id flag or manifest.cloud.workspace_id) calls POST /cosmic/workspaces/:workspace_id/cloudApps to atomically create a site, app, and environment. On success it writes siteId, cloud.app_id, and cloud.environment_id into webflow.json, writes WEBFLOW_SITE_ID into .env, and forces --skip-mount-path-check for that one deploy. Subsequent deploys behave like normal site-attached deploys.

If --app-name is omitted on the first project-app deploy, the CLI uses the cwd folder name (when 3–39 chars) and falls back to "Cloud App". Provide --app-name explicitly in CI to avoid surprises.

Uninitialized projects (no siteId, no workspace_id, no flag): the CLI prompts the user to create a new project app, attach to an existing site, or cancel. With --no-input it hard-errors listing the required flags. Agents running with --no-input must always supply --site-id or --workspace-id on the first deploy of an uninitialized project.

There are two deployment approaches. GitHub-linked deployment is recommended — it requires no CI configuration. After a one-time dashboard setup (which the CLI can't do), every push to the connected branch triggers a deploy.

Option 1 (recommended): GitHub-linked deployment

Once a one-time dashboard setup is done, every push to the connected branch triggers a deploy — no CLI commands, no workflow file. The setup is dashboard-only — the CLI cannot reach this state on its own. Pushing a repo to GitHub does not, by itself, enable push-to-deploy.

1. Push the project to GitHub (the user needs at least one commit pushed)
2. Tell the user to open the Webflow dashboard → their Cloud app → Settings → Git and connect their GitHub account if not already connected
3. Select the repository, then the branch to deploy from (e.g. main)
4. Confirm — the dashboard runs an initial deploy automatically to verify the connection
5. From that point on: git push to the connected branch = deploy

Steps 2–4 cannot be scripted. If the user wants push-to-deploy, they have to click through the dashboard once. After that, the agent's job for this project is essentially done — future deploys happen on push.

When suggesting a deployment setup to a user, always lead with this option. Only suggest GitHub Actions if the user needs custom pre/post steps, secrets injection, or multi-environment logic that the native GitHub integration does not cover.

Option 2: GitHub Actions (manual CI/CD)

Use when you need custom build steps, environment-specific secrets, or deploy gates not supported by the native GitHub integration. See the GitHub Actions example in the Examples section.

Option 3: Local / manual deploy

For development and one-off deploys:

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webflow apps deploy \
  --no-input \
  --mount / \
  --environment main \
  --skip-mount-path-check \
  --skip-update-check

All apps deploy flags:

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# Preview what a deploy would do, no side effects
webflow apps deploy --no-input --mount /app --environment main --site-id site_abc123 --dry-run --json

# Deploy and parse the result instead of scraping progress output
webflow apps deploy --no-input --mount /app --environment main --site-id site_abc123 --json

Agents: pass --mount AND --environment together, every time. The deploy prompts (select existing app, name a new app, pick an environment) are gated on whether --mount and --environment are both set — not on --no-input. Pass --no-input without both and the app-select prompt still fires and hangs in non-TTY contexts. The minimum agent-safe deploy flag set is --no-input --mount <path> --environment <env> --site-id <id> (or --workspace-id <id> for project-app first deploy), plus --app-name whenever cloud.app_id is absent from webflow.json.

⚠️ Omitting --mount under --no-input deploys to root, silently. This is a wrong-deploy risk, not a hard failure — nothing errors and nothing warns. The mount prompt supplies a /app default but no validator, and the no-input path only returns a default that passes validation; with no validator it returns nothing at all, which normalizes to /. Root is a valid mount, so the deploy proceeds there. Never rely on the /app default in a non-interactive run — pass --mount explicitly every time. This is also why "assume the default mount" is called out as a cause of ENVIRONMENT_MOUNT_MISMATCH further down: the failure surfaces later, at a different layer, far from the flag that caused it.

Managing apps

Commands for inspecting and operating existing Cloud apps. They complement init / deploy:

• Workspace is server-side. Every read command derives the workspace from the OAuth token — there is no --workspace-id flag on any of them, and they never prompt for a workspace.

• ID resolution. appId and envId resolve via the shared resolver: explicit arg/flag → env var (WEBFLOW_APP_ID / WEBFLOW_APP_ENVIRONMENT_ID) → webflow.json (cloud.app_id / cloud.environment_id, legacy cloud.project_id fallback) → interactive TTY prompt. Running inside the app directory (so webflow.json resolves the IDs) is the common case, not a requirement.

• Auto-select vs. --no-input contract. When the ID isn't given, the picker auto-selects a workspace's single app / an app's single environment, so single-app/single-env setups work non-interactively (including CI). When several exist and the command can't prompt (--no-input, CI=true, no TTY, or --json), it exits non-zero with a machine-readable missingFlag on the error so an agent can recover by re-running with the flag. The human-readable form is e.g. Missing required appId. Pass --app-id, set WEBFLOW_APP_ID, or add it to webflow.json.

  missingFlag comes in two shapes — match on both. Resolver failures name a bare key (appId, environmentId, depId, yes); flag-compatibility refusals on apps init name a flag spelling (--import, --site-id, --mount, --new). Normalize before matching (strip a leading --, compare case-insensitively) rather than assuming one form. In both cases the value names the flag to add or drop — for a mutually-exclusive pair it names the one to remove, so retrying by adding the flag the error reports would loop forever.

• --json. Every command supports --json, which prints the raw API response and ignores --fields. Use it for programmatic parsing. --json also suppresses the Using … from webflow.json info lines.

• --fields <comma-list>. Read commands render a table; --fields projects which columns show (invalid field names fail fast before the network call). Each command's default and full field set are listed below.

Filter semantics (list commands)

apps list, apps environments list, and apps env-vars list share one filter model:

• Exact filters (--name, --branch, --key, --site, --status) match exactly and case-sensitively.
• --q is a case-insensitive substring (contains) match on that resource's primary name field only — the app name, the environment branch, the variable key. It never searches ids, and it never searches variable values. Use it to discover; use the exact filter to resolve a single item.
• Multiple filters combine with AND. An exact filter plus a non-matching --q returns an empty page — that means nothing matched all the filters, not that the resource is absent. Do not conclude an app or variable doesn't exist from an empty filtered page; re-run with fewer filters before reporting absence.
• Every filter value must be non-empty (--q "" is a usage error, not a no-op).

apps list

Lists all apps in your workspace. --fields default id,name,siteId,createdAt (all: id,name,description,siteId,appPath,sourceUrl,createdAt,siteName,shortName).

Filters: --site <site-id> (exact site id), --name <name> (exact, case-sensitive), --q <text> (case-insensitive substring on the app name).

App names are unique only within a site. --name alone can match apps across several sites, and --site alone can match many apps — pass --site AND --name together to resolve to at most one app.

--site deliberately does not default from webflow.json: an unfiltered apps list returns every app the token can see, rather than silently narrowing to the manifest's site.

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webflow apps list --json

# Resolve one app by name within a known site
webflow apps list --site 6234abc --name "Marketing" --json

# Discover apps whose name contains "mark" (case-insensitive)
webflow apps list --q mark --json

apps get [appId]

Details for one app. appId defaults to webflow.json / WEBFLOW_APP_ID. --fields default id,name,description,siteId,appPath,createdAt (all: id,name,description,siteId,appPath,sourceUrl,createdAt,siteName,shortName — same field set as apps list). sourceUrl is the connected GitHub repository, if any (see apps update --github-source).

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apps domains [appId]

Domains and live URLs for an app. --fields default id,url,lastPublished (all + fullSiteCompiledAt).

Paginated: --limit <n> (the server caps at 100) and --cursor <cursor> from a previous nextCursor. When paging, resend the same --limit and any non-default --fields on every page.

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webflow apps domains app_abc123 --json
webflow apps domains app_abc123 --limit 50 --cursor "$NEXT_CURSOR" --json

apps environments list [appId]

Lists an app's environments. --fields default id,branch,publicUrl,latestDeploymentStatus,createdAt (all: id,branch,mount,publicUrl,latestDeploymentStatus,lastDeploymentSucceededAt,lastVariableModifiedAt,createdAt,updatedAt).

mount is not in the table default. To read an environment's mount path, either use --json (which returns the full API shape and ignores --fields) or ask for it explicitly with --fields id,branch,mount. A default environments list table will not show it.

Filters: --branch <branch> (exact, case-sensitive — resolves to at most one environment, since a branch is unique per app) and --q <text> (case-insensitive substring on the branch, for discovery).

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webflow apps environments list app_abc123 --json

# Resolve the environment that builds `main`
webflow apps environments list --branch main --fields id,branch,publicUrl --json

apps deployments list

Lists the most recent deployments of an environment, newest first. Takes no appId argument — it resolves the app + environment from WEBFLOW_APP_ID / WEBFLOW_APP_ENVIRONMENT_ID, webflow.json, or a picker. --limit default 20. --fields default id,status,sourceType,commitHash,buildStartedAt.

Filter: --status <status> (exact, one of the enum values below — an invalid value is rejected by the CLI before any network call). Paginated via --cursor from a previous nextCursor; resend the same --limit, --status, and non-default --fields on every page.

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webflow apps deployments list --limit 20 --json

# Most recent failed build
webflow apps deployments list --status failed --limit 1 --json

Deployment status enum: starting | building | deploying | success | failed | canceled | unstaged. Note that build-done / deploy-running maps to deploying (there is no separate "deployed" state until it reaches success). Terminal statuses are success, failed, canceled, and unstaged.

apps deployments get <depId>

Details for one deployment (required <depId> positional). Resolves the app + environment the same way as deployments list. --fields default id,status,sourceType,commitHash,buildStartedAt.

--wait blocks until the deployment reaches a terminal status (success / failed / canceled / unstaged) or the timeout elapses, then exits 0 on success and 1 otherwise — so it doubles as a CI gate without any polling loop of your own. --interval <seconds> sets the poll cadence (floored at 5s) and --timeout <seconds> bounds the wait (capped at 30 minutes).

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webflow apps deployments get dep_abc123 --json

# Block until the build finishes; non-zero exit fails the CI step
webflow apps deployments get dep_abc123 --wait --interval 10 --timeout 900 --json

apps deployments redeploy <depId>

Re-runs an existing deployment at its same commit, enqueuing a fresh build. To roll back, redeploy the ID of an earlier successful deployment. Resolves the app + environment like deployments list. --dry-run previews.

Requires a GitHub-connected app. Apps deployed from local files via apps deploy are not eligible — there is no commit to re-run.

--idempotency-key <key> sends an Idempotency-Key header so a retried enqueue is deduped rather than queuing a second build. When passed it must be non-empty printable ASCII (no control characters, newlines, or non-ASCII); omit the flag entirely to run without deduplication.

--wait (same contract as deployments get --wait). Enqueuing a build only returns a 202 with no deployment ID to poll, so --wait identifies the new deployment itself first (by diffing the environment's deployment list before/after the enqueue), then blocks on it until it reaches a terminal status, exiting 0 on success and 1 otherwise. --interval <seconds> (floored at 5s) and --timeout <seconds> (capped at 30 minutes) tune the poll, same as get. Use it to gate CI on the outcome of a redeploy in one command instead of enqueueing and separately polling deployments get.

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webflow apps deployments redeploy dep_abc123 --dry-run --json
webflow apps deployments redeploy dep_abc123 --idempotency-key "$GITHUB_RUN_ID-redeploy" --json

# Roll back and block until the new build finishes; non-zero exit fails the CI step
webflow apps deployments redeploy dep_abc123 --wait --interval 10 --timeout 900 --json

# Roll back: find the last success, then redeploy it
webflow apps deployments list --status success --limit 1 --fields id --json

apps deployments trigger

Builds the resolved environment's current HEAD on demand — same as redeploy, but with no <depId>: there is no past deployment to re-run, it just builds whatever the environment's configured branch points at right now. --dry-run previews. Same --idempotency-key contract as redeploy.

Requires a GitHub-connected app, same as redeploy.

It builds the branch the environment is configured for, not your checked-out branch. If those differ the CLI warns but does not block — check apps environments list --fields id,branch first if you're unsure which branch will actually build.

Same --wait/--interval/--timeout contract as redeploy and deployments get — since trigger also only returns a 202, --wait identifies the enqueued deployment itself before polling it to a terminal status.

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webflow apps deployments trigger --dry-run --json
webflow apps deployments trigger --json

# Build current HEAD and block until it finishes; non-zero exit fails the CI step
webflow apps deployments trigger --wait --interval 10 --timeout 900 --json

apps logs build <depId>

Build logs for a deployment. depId is required — the CLI does not fall back to the latest deployment. Omitting it fails fast (before authenticating) with a machine-readable missingFlag: "depId"; run apps deployments list to find an ID first. --fields default timestamp,message (all + phase).

Filters: --since <iso> (only logs at/after an ISO datetime), --q <substr> (substring match on the message), --limit <n> (default 100), --cursor <cursor> (pagination cursor from a previous nextCursor). There is no --level filter. When paging, resend the same --limit, non-default --fields, --since, and --q on every page.

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# Find a deployment ID first — `logs build` will not guess one
webflow apps deployments list --limit 1 --fields id --json

webflow apps logs build dep_abc123 --since 2026-07-14T00:00:00Z --q error --limit 100 --json

apps logs runtime [envId]

Runtime logs for an environment. [envId] defaults to the app's single environment. If the app has several and none was given, the CLI prompts on a TTY and errors with missingFlag: "environmentId" when it can't (--no-input, CI=true, no TTY, or --json) — pass the env explicitly (arg, WEBFLOW_APP_ENVIRONMENT_ID, or cloud.environment_id) in that case. Same filters as logs build (--since, --q, --limit, --cursor; no --level), and the same rule about resending them on every page.

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webflow apps logs runtime env_abc123 --q timeout --json

Pagination for both log commands: the response carries a nextCursor (base64url; null when exhausted). Pass it back verbatim via --cursor to fetch the next page.

apps env-vars

Manage a Cloud app environment's variables non-interactively. All four subcommands accept --app-id and --environment-id (defaulting from webflow.json via the shared resolver) and --json. Secret values are never printed to output, logs, or telemetry — the server returns secrets masked on every read, and the CLI never unmasks them.

apps env-vars list — --fields default key,isSecret (all: key,isSecret,value,id,environmentId). value is excluded by default; even with --fields value, secret values arrive masked.

Filters: --key <key> (exact, case-sensitive — resolves to at most one variable; its value is still never returned) and --q <text> (case-insensitive substring on the key). --q never searches values — there is no way to search env var contents, by design.

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webflow apps env-vars list --json

# Check whether one key is set, and whether it's a secret
webflow apps env-vars list --key API_KEY --json

apps env-vars set <key> [value] — create or update one variable. [value] is optional: omit it to read from piped stdin or be prompted (recommended for secrets, keeps them out of shell history). --secret encrypts the value (omitting it preserves an existing key's secrecy). --dry-run previews without writing.

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webflow apps env-vars set API_URL https://api.example.com --json
# secret — value read from stdin/prompt, never echoed:
printf '%s' "$TOKEN" | webflow apps env-vars set API_KEY --secret --json

apps env-vars delete <key> — delete one variable. --dry-run previews.

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webflow apps env-vars delete API_KEY --json

apps env-vars import <file> — bulk upsert from a .env (KEY=value) file. --secret marks every key in the file as secret. --dry-run previews (values shown as KEY=********, never plaintext). Per-key failures are reported and cause a non-zero exit.

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webflow apps env-vars import .env.production --secret --json

apps environments create [appId]

Creates an environment on an app, bound to a branch and served at a mount path. Both --branch and --mount are required. --dry-run previews.

It does NOT deploy — the environment starts empty. Run apps deployments trigger afterwards to build it.

• --branch <branch> — the Git branch this environment builds from. Must be a valid branch name and not already used by another environment of this app.
• --mount <path> — the URL path it is served at (e.g. /app). Must be unique across the site.
• --idempotency-key <key> — optional retry-stable key (sent as the request's requestId) to dedupe a retried create. Same printable-ASCII rule as deployments redeploy.

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webflow apps environments create --branch staging --mount /staging --dry-run --json
webflow apps environments create --branch staging --mount /staging --json
webflow apps deployments trigger --json   # the environment is empty until you do this

apps environments update [appId] [envId]

Updates an environment's --branch and/or --mount (at least one is required). Same uniqueness rules as create. Resolves the app and environment from the positional args, WEBFLOW_APP_ID / WEBFLOW_APP_ENVIRONMENT_ID, webflow.json, or pickers — or via the explicit --app-id / --environment-id flags. --dry-run previews.

It does NOT deploy. After changing --branch, run apps deployments trigger to build the new branch — until you do, the environment still serves the old build.

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webflow apps environments update --branch release --dry-run --json
webflow apps environments update env_abc123 --mount /v2 --json

apps environments delete [appId] [envId]

Deletes an environment from an app. Resolves app + environment like environments update. Requires confirmation: pass --yes to skip the prompt; non-interactively without it, the command refuses with missingFlag: "yes" rather than deleting. --dry-run previews.

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webflow apps environments delete env_abc123 --dry-run --json
webflow apps environments delete env_abc123 --yes --json

apps link [appId]

Points the current directory at an existing app + environment by writing webflow.json. It verifies the app but creates and deploys nothing — use it to adopt an app from a fresh clone, or to repoint a directory at a different app/environment. --dry-run previews the manifest change.

The positional [appId] takes precedence over --app-id, WEBFLOW_APP_ID, and webflow.json. --environment-id selects the environment.

A workspace ID is persisted only when --workspace-id is passed explicitly — it can't be derived or verified from the app, so the CLI writes it as supplied rather than guessing.

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webflow apps link app_abc123 --environment-id env_abc123 --dry-run --json
webflow apps link app_abc123 --environment-id env_abc123 --json

apps update [appId]

Update an app's --name, --description, and/or --github-source (at least one is required). --dry-run previews. appId defaults from webflow.json / WEBFLOW_APP_ID.

--github-source <repo-url> attaches a repository to an app that has none, or repoints one that already has a different repo. Pass it as https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>, and note:

• It does NOT deploy. Run apps deployments trigger afterwards to build from the newly attached repo.
• It requires the Webflow GitHub App installed on the repo owner and connected to this workspace — the same prerequisite as apps init --import.
• To change which branch an environment builds, use apps environments update --branch, not this flag. --github-source selects the repository; the environment selects the branch.

--json output: on --dry-run it's the plan — only the keys actually being changed, plus dryRun: true — so a name-only update's plan has no githubSource key at all (not null); on a real run it's the full updated app object (same shape as apps get --json).

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webflow apps update app_abc123 --name "New Name" --description "Marketing site app" --json

# Attach a repo, then build it
webflow apps update app_abc123 --github-source https://github.com/acme/site --json
webflow apps deployments trigger --json

apps delete [appId]

Delete (or archive — the server decides by site kind) an app. Requires confirmation: pass --yes to skip the prompt. Non-interactively (--no-input / --json) without --yes, it refuses with missingFlag: "yes" rather than deleting. --dry-run previews the impact without deleting.

--json output: the same document shape on both the dry run and the real run — { appId, name, action: "archive" | "hard_delete", siteId, siteName, permanent, dryRun, message } — so one parser handles either. The dry run reads the app first to fill in name / siteId / siteName / action / permanent; a real --json run always requires --yes (see above) and skips that read entirely, so on a real run name, siteId, and siteName are always null and action comes from the delete response itself. message is null on the dry run and populated once the delete actually happens.

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webflow apps delete app_abc123 --dry-run --json
webflow apps delete app_abc123 --yes --json

Frameworks

Any other value in cloud.framework causes apps deploy to exit with code 1.

static only scaffolds standalone apps — apps init --new --framework static works; apps init --site-id ... --framework static (site-attached) does not, there is no site-attached static scaffold. For an existing static project (already built, or hand-written), deploy-time detection doesn't need a scaffold at all: a directory with a root index.html and no package.json is auto-detected as static (assets-only, no build, no worker); an explicit { "cloud": { "framework": "static" } } in webflow.json also selects it and always wins even if build/runtime files are present. A directory that has index.html and build/runtime indicators but no explicit framework is rejected rather than guessed — declare cloud.framework explicitly to force one interpretation.

Scaffolds are fetched from GitHub at init time. The CLI downloads scaffold tarballs from Webflow-Examples/hello-world-{astro,nextjs,vite,static-app}* (site-attached scaffolds from the matching *-devlink repo), each pinned to a versioned (vN) branch that the installed CLI expects. apps init therefore requires network access to github.com. Old CLI installs keep working because each release stays pinned to a compatible scaffold branch.

Global flags

Output

After a successful apps deploy, the CLI prints two pieces of output.

1. Deployment dashboard URL — always present on success:

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https://webflow.com/dashboard/sites/{siteId}/webflow-cloud/projects/{appId}/environments/{environmentId}/deployments/{deploymentId}

Always show this to the user. From here they can view build logs, deployment status, history, and environment settings.

2. Live app URL — conditional:

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🌐 Your cloud app will soon be available at:
   https://{your-site}.webflow.io/{mount-path}

If a real URL is printed, show it to the user as the live app link. The domain is their Webflow site's domain and the path is whatever --mount value was used at deploy time (e.g. /, /app, or any other user-chosen path). You can also fetch the live URL programmatically later with webflow apps domains --json.

If the output instead reads No domains found with the correct mount path configuration yet., do not show a live URL — point the user to the dashboard deployment link above to check status and configure their domain.

Do not fetch or curl either URL to verify the deploy — just return what the CLI printed. To confirm status programmatically, use webflow apps deployments list --json or webflow apps logs build --json instead.

Examples

Full workflow: scaffold → GitHub → dashboard connection → push-to-deploy (recommended)

The CLI handles steps 1 and 2. Step 3 must happen in the Webflow dashboard — the CLI cannot do it. Without step 3, pushing to GitHub does not deploy.

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# 1. Scaffold locally (CLI)
webflow apps init --new --no-input \
  --app-name my-app \
  --framework nextjs \
  --workspace-id ws_abc123

# 2. Push to GitHub (CLI / git)
git init && git add . && git commit -m "init"
git remote add origin https://github.com/your-org/my-app.git
git push -u origin main

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# 3. Connect in the Webflow dashboard (manual, dashboard-only):
#    a. Open the Cloud app → Settings → Git
#    b. Connect the GitHub account (if not already), pick the repo
#    c. Pick the branch to deploy from (e.g. main)
#    d. Confirm — the dashboard runs an initial deploy to verify the wiring
#
# After step 3, every push to the selected branch triggers a deploy automatically.
# Skip step 3 and push-to-deploy is NOT active — deploys must be manual or CI-driven.

Project-app workflow: init → first deploy provisions site

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# Agent-safe init — assumes the token sees a single workspace.
# If the token sees multiple workspaces, ask the user to run this command locally first.
webflow apps init --new --no-input \
  --app-name my-app \
  --framework astro

# First deploy creates site + app + environment on the backend,
# writes siteId / app_id / environment_id back to webflow.json,
# and writes WEBFLOW_SITE_ID to .env. Subsequent deploys are normal.
cd my-app
webflow apps deploy --no-input \
  --app-name my-app \
  --mount / \
  --environment main \
  --skip-update-check

Scaffold a site-attached Astro app locally

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webflow apps init \
  --no-input \
  --app-name my-site-app \
  --framework astro \
  --mount /app \
  --site-id site_abc123

Inspect an existing app and its latest deployment

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# Which apps can this token see?
webflow apps list --json

# Details + live URLs for one app (or omit the ID inside the app dir)
webflow apps get app_abc123 --json
webflow apps domains app_abc123 --json

# Most recent deployments (newest first), then drill into one
webflow apps deployments list --limit 5 --json
webflow apps deployments get dep_abc123 --json

# Block until a build reaches a terminal status (exit 0 = success, 1 = not)
webflow apps deployments get dep_abc123 --wait --interval 10 --timeout 900 --json

# Read that deployment's build log, filtered. `logs build` requires the ID —
# it will not fall back to the latest deployment.
webflow apps logs build dep_abc123 --q error --json

Manage environment variables

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# Non-secret value inline
webflow apps env-vars set PUBLIC_API_URL https://api.example.com

# Secret value piped from stdin (stays out of shell history / logs)
printf '%s' "$DB_PASSWORD" | webflow apps env-vars set DB_PASSWORD --secret

# Bulk import a .env file, all keys secret; preview first
webflow apps env-vars import .env.production --secret --dry-run
webflow apps env-vars import .env.production --secret

# List (secrets shown masked) and delete
webflow apps env-vars list --json
webflow apps env-vars delete OLD_KEY

GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline (when custom steps are needed)

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name: Deploy to Webflow Cloud

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20

      # Pin an exact version in CI: the @latest tag moves without notice.
      - name: Install Webflow CLI
        run: npm install -g @webflow/webflow-cli@latest

      - name: Deploy
        run: |
          webflow apps deploy \
            --no-input \
            --mount / \
            --environment main \
            --skip-mount-path-check \
            --skip-update-check
        env:
          WEBFLOW_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.WEBFLOW_API_TOKEN }}
          WEBFLOW_SITE_ID: ${{ secrets.WEBFLOW_SITE_ID }}
          # For project apps pre-first-deploy, omit WEBFLOW_SITE_ID

Manual deploy (local / one-off)

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webflow apps deploy \
  --no-input \
  --app-name my-app \
  --mount / \
  --environment main \
  --skip-mount-path-check \
  --skip-update-check

Manual deploy with error handling

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webflow apps deploy --no-input --mount / --skip-mount-path-check --skip-update-check
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  echo "Deploy failed. Log file:"
  webflow log
  exit 1
fi

Guidelines

Init vs Deploy in CI

• apps init is for local, one-time project setup — never run it in CI. Site-attached mode opens a browser window; there is no headless OAuth path. Run apps init once locally, commit the result, then use apps deploy in CI.

Mount path

• --mount is always required with --no-input. The CLI does not read a saved mount path from webflow.json.
• Never assume a default. Assuming / or /app will cause ENVIRONMENT_MOUNT_MISMATCH if the app uses a different path. Check the Webflow dashboard under the environment settings, or run webflow apps environments list --json and read the mount field (mount is omitted from the default table — with --fields you must ask for it: --fields id,branch,mount).

Do not add confirmation gates

When --no-input is set, do not add a human confirmation step before apps deploy. It blocks unattended CI runs and is unnecessary — the deploy path has no built-in prompt to bypass. (apps delete is the exception: it requires --yes non-interactively by design.)

Prefer --json for machine reads

For any read/management command (list, get, domains, environments, deployments, logs, env-vars), pass --json and parse the structured output rather than scraping the table. --json ignores --fields and returns the full API shape.

Package manager

The CLI uses npm only regardless of lock files present. pnpm and yarn lock files are ignored — those projects silently receive npm install.

Build-time file management

During apps deploy, the CLI temporarily replaces two files and restores them on success or failure:

• Framework config (next.config.ts / astro.config.mjs) — renamed to clouduser.*, replaced with CLI template, then restored.
• wrangler.json — replaced with CLI template (original saved to clouduser.wrangler.json), then restored. Do not modify wrangler.json during a deploy.

If Astro is the framework and @astrojs/react is absent, the CLI runs npm install --save @astrojs/react without prompting.

Cloudflare bindings (D1 / KV / R2)

The CLI merges wrangler.json bindings at build time. No fixed per-type limit — storage is governed by the workspace's cloud-storage entitlement, not a hardcoded CLI count. For D1, set migrations_dir in the binding — the CLI copies migration files automatically.

Error handling

• The CLI exits with code 1 on every error. Check the exit code — do not match on emoji or text patterns in stdout.
• For management commands, a missingFlag on the (JSON) error identifies the flag to re-run with (appId, environmentId, yes).
• Use webflow log after any failure to get the full error trace.

Deploy versioning

Commit all changes before deploying to production.

Known limitations

• apps deploy has --dry-run and --json, but only on the apps form — cloud deploy (the deprecated alias) has neither. See the deploy flags table for the exact output shapes. Every other write also supports --dry-run: apps init (both paths — the scaffold and --import), link, update, delete, environments create / update / delete, deployments redeploy / trigger, and all four env-vars subcommands. Note --dry-run on init is registered on apps init only, not on the cloud init alias.
• No --watch on logs — the log endpoints are pollable but do not stream; poll on an interval to follow a build. Deployments are the exception: apps deployments get / redeploy / trigger all take --wait to block to a terminal status for you.
• apps logs build requires a deployment ID — it does not default to the latest deployment. Get one from apps deployments list first.
• deployments redeploy / trigger need a GitHub-connected app — apps deployed from local files via apps deploy are not eligible.
• --q never searches values or IDs — only the resource's primary name field (app name, environment branch, variable key).
• No rollback command.
• 100 MB build size limit — builds exceeding 104,857,600 bytes fail at upload.

Troubleshooting

--app-name cannot be empty (or any required-flag error) on apps init

The CLI gates its interactive prompts on process.stdin.isTTY. Agents invoke the CLI from a subprocess that does not have a TTY, so the prompt block is skipped entirely and the bare validation fires for the first missing required value.

Fix: pass every required flag explicitly. For apps init:

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webflow apps init --new --no-input --app-name my-app --framework astro
# or, site-attached:
webflow apps init --no-input --app-name my-app --framework astro --mount /app --site-id site_abc123

Passing --no-input is not strictly required for the prompts to be skipped — the absent TTY already does that — but it makes the contract explicit and matches the Required-flag matrix at the top of this skill.

apps init --new hangs forever / never returns

Workspace selection in project-app mode prompts unconditionally when the token sees more than one workspace. Pass --workspace-id to skip the picker; without it, in a non-TTY context the CLI hangs at the prompt.

Fix: pass --workspace-id <id> to apps init --new. The workspace ID is not visible in the Webflow dashboard UI, so when the agent doesn't have one, ask the user to run webflow apps deploy interactively from inside an existing project. The preflight prompt picks a workspace and writes cloud.workspace_id to webflow.json — the agent can then read it and pass --workspace-id on future runs. Single-workspace tokens are not affected — selection is auto-skipped.

A management command hangs or errors with a missing ID

Read/management commands resolve appId / envId from the arg/flag, then WEBFLOW_APP_ID / WEBFLOW_APP_ENVIRONMENT_ID, then webflow.json, then a prompt. In a non-TTY context with several apps/environments and nothing passed, the command exits with a machine-readable missingFlag.

Fix: run the command from inside the app directory (so webflow.json resolves the IDs), or pass the ID explicitly — apps get <appId>, apps env-vars list --app-id <id> --environment-id <id>, apps logs runtime <envId>. Single-app / single-env setups auto-select and need nothing extra.

Deploy provisioned a new site when I expected site-attached

Symptom: user wanted to deploy to an existing Webflow site, but apps deploy printed Creating Cloud app... / Cloud app created: <name> and the live URL came out as <name>-<hash>.webflow.io (a freshly minted site) instead of the user's intended site.

Cause: webflow.json was in the project-app init state — cloud.workspace_id set, siteId absent — typically because the project was previously scaffolded with apps init --new. The preflight phase prefers explicit flags but still falls through to the manifest when none are passed.

Prevention (primary fix): pass --site-id <existing-site-id> to apps deploy. The preflight phase resolves identity from flags first, so this overrides whatever's in webflow.json and routes the deploy to the intended Webflow site. The skill should always pass --site-id when site-attached intent is known.

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webflow apps deploy --no-input \
  --site-id site_abc123 \
  --mount /app --environment main \
  --skip-mount-path-check --skip-update-check

Recovery if the new site was already created:

• Keep the new project-app site the deploy just created — do nothing; subsequent deploys will go to the same site (or pass --site-id of the new site if there's any ambiguity).
• Re-target an existing Webflow site instead. The auto-provisioned site cannot be re-bound to an existing site after creation. Options:
  1. Delete the project app (and its auto-provisioned site) from the Webflow dashboard or with webflow apps delete <appId> --yes.
  2. Either edit webflow.json (remove cloud.workspace_id, cloud.app_id, cloud.environment_id, siteId) and re-run apps init with --site-id <existing-site-id>, or skip the manifest edit and run apps deploy --site-id <existing-site-id> directly — the preflight will treat this as a fresh site-attached deploy.

Auth error on deploy

Run webflow auth login and complete the browser flow. The CLI writes a new WEBFLOW_API_TOKEN to .env. Retry the deploy after login.

In CI, browser auth is not possible — an auth error means WEBFLOW_API_TOKEN is missing or expired in your secrets. Fix the secret, do not attempt webflow auth login. If the CI uses the legacy WEBFLOW_SITE_API_TOKEN, the deploy will still work but the run log shows a deprecation warning; rename the secret to WEBFLOW_API_TOKEN to clear it.

Deploying to a different workspace

For project apps (--new): pass --workspace-id <new-id> to apps init or apps deploy to override cloud.workspace_id in webflow.json. Alternatively, delete cloud.workspace_id from webflow.json and re-run init (or interactive deploy on an existing project) to re-seed it.

For site-attached projects, workspace context is implicit in the auth token. Re-run webflow auth login and select the target workspace in the browser; the new token replaces the old one in .env.

First project-app deploy fails with missing_scopes

The token saved to .env doesn't include the scopes needed to create a Cloud app. Re-run webflow auth login and re-approve the scopes, then retry the deploy.

First project-app deploy fails: "your workspace has reached its app limit"

The selected workspace (cloud.workspace_id) is at its app cap. Either upgrade the workspace plan or delete unused apps in the Webflow dashboard (or with webflow apps delete <appId> --yes), then retry.

First project-app deploy fails with workspace-not-found / 404

The workspace ID (from --workspace-id flag, or cloud.workspace_id in webflow.json) no longer resolves — workspace deleted, or token has no access. The CLI doesn't validate the flag up front: it trusts the value and surfaces the 404 from createCloudApp. Fixes:

• Pass --workspace-id <correct-id> to apps init or apps deploy.
• Or delete cloud.workspace_id from webflow.json and either re-run apps init --new --workspace-id <id> (empty directory) or run webflow apps deploy interactively (existing project) so the preflight prompt re-seeds the workspace ID.

ENVIRONMENT_MOUNT_MISMATCH

The --mount value does not match the path registered for that environment. Check the correct mount path via webflow apps environments list --json (read the mount field), or --fields id,branch,mount for the table form — mount is not in the default field set — or the Webflow dashboard, and pass it explicitly.

Framework cannot be detected / explicit framework required

A webflow.json that has a cloud block but no framework key does not throw — the CLI falls back to detecting from package.json. The legacy error "webflow.json exists but doesn't contain valid framework information" only fires when cloud.framework is explicitly set to an unsupported value.

If framework detection still fails (monorepo, missing framework dependency, ambiguous setup), fix it with the --framework flag on apps deploy:

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webflow apps deploy --no-input --framework nextjs --mount /app --environment main ...

This writes cloud.framework back into webflow.json so subsequent deploys don't need the flag. Or just edit the manifest manually:

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{
  "cloud": {
    "framework": "nextjs"
  }
}

Valid values: nextjs, astro, vite, static. Any other value exits with code 1.

Build fails, need full trace

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webflow log

Prints the path to the latest log file with the full error trace.