Use this tool to publish a workflow draft, promoting it to the live version. Call it after create_workflow (and optionally update_workflow) to make the workflow active.

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This tool runs against the monday.com dev (preview) API schema. Before publishing, the workflow is validated. If a step is missing or misconfigured, publish fails with a WORKFLOW_VALIDATION_FAILED error that includes structured details — which step failed, the issue type, and which inputs are missing. Use those details to guide the user on what to fix before retrying.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
workflowObjectId	`string`	Yes	The workflow object ID returned by create_workflow. Identifies the workflow across all drafts and live versions.
workflowDraftId	`string`	Yes	The draft version ID to publish. Both `workflowObjectId` and `workflowDraftId` are required — together they identify the exact draft to publish.
shouldActivate	`boolean`	No	Whether to activate the workflow immediately after publishing so it starts running. Defaults to `true`. Pass `false` to publish without activating.

Example

Publish a workflow draft and activate it:

{
  "workflowObjectId": "12345",
  "workflowDraftId": "67890",
  "shouldActivate": true
}

The tool returns workflowObjectId (unchanged) and workflowLiveId (the new live version ID). The live ID changes on every publish, so do not cache it.

Programmatic equivalent

This tool maps to the publish_workflow mutation on the monday.com dev (preview) API schema. There is no stable public GraphQL equivalent yet.