Consume Netlify API
Netlify ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 10 actions, 2 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.
io.w6w.netlifyNetlify hosts and builds sites from Git, and this app manages the deploys, environment variables, and form submissions around a site: listing sites and their deploy history, triggering a fresh deploy from a site’s connected repository, cancelling one in progress, and reading a specific deploy’s status. It is the app to reach for when a workflow needs to kick off a rebuild in response to something else happening — a CMS update, a scheduled trigger — without going through the Netlify dashboard.
Environment variables can be read and set per deploy context, useful for rotating a value or configuring a site as part of a larger provisioning workflow. Netlify’s built-in form handling is also covered: a workflow can list which forms a site has detected and read the submissions across all of them, which is a lightweight way to react to a form submission without standing up a separate webhook receiver.
Three routes to the same 10 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Netlify's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.
env-var-list List environment variables for an account, optionally scoped to one site
env-var-set Create or update an environment variable's value for one deploy context
A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the
connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the
workflow spec, carrying Netlify's real ids.
{
"manifestVersion": "2",
"name": "netlify-example",
"steps": [
{
"id": "deploy-create",
"uses": {
"app": "io.w6w.netlify",
"action": "deploy-create",
"connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
},
"with": {
"siteId": "<siteId>"
}
}
]
}deploy-create deploy-get deploy-list env-var-list env-var-set +5 more actions available
Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An
app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the
address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account,
so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Netlify, then fill in
the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the
parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed
from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but
nothing in it is specific to Netlify. The Workflow tab is where this app's
real ids are.
npm install @w6w/sdkyarn add @w6w/sdkpnpm add @w6w/sdkdeno add npm:@w6w/sdkimport { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";
// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();
const envelope = await client.run({
urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
action: "deploy-create",
payload: {
siteId: "<value>",
// branch: "<value>",
// title: "<value>",
},
});
if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value); npm install -g @w6w/cli w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action deploy-create --payload '{"siteId":"<value>"}' Give an AI agent Netlify — without giving it Netlify's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.
One tool call{
"name": "w6w_invoke",
"arguments": {
"ref": "app:io.w6w.netlify#deploy-create",
"input": {
"siteId": "<siteId>"
}
}
}
Every tool names its target with a single ref. The
app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the
host resolves which of the caller's Netlify connections to sign
with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.
The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.
Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.
Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.
Netlify's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.
The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Netlify itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).
Netlify declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.
Atlassian Statuspage rollup for www.netlifystatus.com, with per-component detail. Unauthenticated and unsigned.
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