gxwf

Foundry’s primary design-time CLI for Galaxy workflow validation and conversion. Bundled with @galaxy-tool-util/cli alongside galaxy-tool-cache; subcommand pages cover individual operations.

Install

npx --yes --package @galaxy-tool-util/cli@1.13.1 gxwf <subcommand> runs without a global install. For repeat use, npm install -g @galaxy-tool-util/cli@1.13.1.

The 1.13.1 minimum preserves numeric workflow input min and max during conversion to and from native Galaxy range validators. It also includes the draft commands used by the per-step authoring loop. The install pin matches galaxy-tool-cache and the repository dependency floor. Pinning the npx --package spec avoids using an older installed CLI.

availability_check is a capability probe, not a version check: gxwf --version reports a hardcoded 1.0.0 regardless of the published package version, so a version-number gate would reject the correct CLI. gxwf --help | grep -q draft-validate instead asserts the actual draft-tier capability the pin exists for — it passes on a CLI that has the subcommands and fails on a genuinely older one, independent of the bogus version string.