String Actions

General

camelCase

Converts a string to camelCase format.

Returns: The camelCase version of the input string.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to convert to camelCase.

# Convert task name to camelCase — useful for generating variable identifiers
- group: string
  name: camelCase
  params:
    string: '{{ taskName }}'

Casing

capitalize

Capitalizes the first character of a string and lowercases the rest.

Returns: The capitalized string.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to capitalize.

# Capitalize action label — useful for display in UI headings
- group: string
  name: capitalize
  params:
    string: '{{ actionLabel }}'

kebabCase

Converts a string to kebab-case format.

Returns: The kebab-case version of the input string.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to convert to kebab-case.

# Convert task name to kebab-case — useful for URL slugs and CLI flags
- group: string
  name: kebabCase
  params:
    string: '{{ taskName }}'

lowerFirst

Lowercases the first character of a string, leaving the rest unchanged.

Returns: The string with its first character in lowercase.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to lowercase the first character of.

# Lowercase only the first character — useful when class names need camelCase normalization
- group: string
  name: lowerFirst
  params:
    string: 'SendDailyReport'

snakeCase

Converts a string to snake_case format.

Returns: The snake_case version of the input string.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to convert to snake_case.

# Convert task name to snake_case — useful for database column names or file identifiers
- group: string
  name: snakeCase
  params:
    string: '{{ taskName }}'

startCase

Converts a string to Start Case format, capitalizing the first letter of each word.

Returns: The Start Case version of the input string.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to convert to Start Case.

# Convert to Start Case — useful for rendering task names in report titles
- group: string
  name: startCase
  params:
    string: '{{ actionLabel }}'

toLowerCase

Converts a string to lowercase.

Returns: The lowercase version of the input string.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to lowercase.

# Lowercase the entire string — useful for normalizing status values before comparison
- group: string
  name: toLowerCase
  params:
    string: '{{ taskName }}'

toUpperCase

Converts a string to uppercase.

Returns: The uppercase version of the input string.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to uppercase.

# Uppercase the entire string — useful for log-level labels and status badges
- group: string
  name: toUpperCase
  params:
    string: 'running'

upperFirst

Uppercases only the first character of a string, leaving the rest unchanged.

Returns: The string with its first character in uppercase.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to uppercase the first character of.

# Uppercase only the first character — useful for sentence-casing dynamic messages
- group: string
  name: upperFirst
  params:
    string: '{{ actionLabel }}'

endsWith

Checks if a string ends with the specified substring.

Returns: true if the string ends with the search value, otherwise false.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to test.
search	string	✓	—	The substring to search for at the end.
position	number		—	Optional character position to treat as the end of the string.

# Check if a task name ends with a known suffix
- group: string
  name: endsWith
  params:
    string: '{{ taskName }}'
    search: 'Pipeline'

Search

includes

Checks if a string contains the specified substring.

Returns: true if the string contains the search value, otherwise false.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to search within.
search	string	✓	—	The substring to look for.
position	number		—	Optional index to start searching from.

# Check whether the task name contains a keyword
- group: string
  name: includes
  params:
    string: '{{ taskName }}'
    search: 'Report'

indexOf

Returns the index of the first occurrence of a substring within a string.

Returns: The zero-based index of the first occurrence, or -1 if not found.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to search within.
search	string	✓	—	The substring to find.
position	number		—	Optional index to start searching from.

# Find the position of a keyword inside the task name
- group: string
  name: indexOf
  params:
    string: '{{ taskName }}'
    search: 'Sales'

startsWith

Checks if a string starts with the specified substring.

Returns: true if the string starts with the target value, otherwise false.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to test.
target	string	✓	—	The substring to check for at the start.
position	number		—	Optional starting index to begin the check.

# Check if the task name begins with the expected prefix
- group: string
  name: startsWith
  params:
    string: '{{ taskName }}'
    target: 'Send'

containsRegex

Tests whether a regular expression pattern exists within a string.

Returns: true if the pattern matches, otherwise false.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to test.
pattern	string	✓	—	Regex pattern string to test against the string.

# Test whether the action label contains only lowercase words
- group: string
  name: containsRegex
  params:
    string: '{{ actionLabel }}'
    pattern: "^[a-z\\s]+"

Regex

match

Matches a string against a regular expression, returning all matches.

Returns: An array of matches, or null if no match is found.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to match against.
pattern	string | any	✓	—	Regex pattern string or RegExp object.
flag	string		—	Optional regex flags (e.g. "g" for global, "i" for case-insensitive).

# Extract all capitalized words from the task name
- group: string
  name: match
  params:
    string: '{{ taskName }}'
    pattern: '[A-Z][a-z]+'
    flag: g

search

Searches a string for a regex or substring match and returns the index of the first match.

Returns: The index of the first match, or -1 if not found.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to search in.
pattern	string | any	✓	—	Regex pattern or string to search for.

# Return the index of the first digit sequence in a pipeline ID string
- group: string
  name: search
  params:
    string: 'pipeline-run-00427-completed'
    pattern: '\d+'

replace

Replaces the first occurrence of a pattern within a string.

Returns: The string with the first match replaced.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to perform replacement on.
pattern	string	✓	—	Exact text to find (not a regex).
replacement	string		—	Replacement string (empty string to delete).

# Replace the first occurrence of a status keyword
- group: string
  name: replace
  params:
    string: 'Pipeline status: pending. Retry pending.'
    pattern: 'pending'
    replacement: 'running'

Replace

replaceAll

Replaces all occurrences of a pattern within a string.

Returns: The string with all matches replaced.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to perform replacements on.
pattern	string	✓	—	Exact text to find and replace everywhere (not a regex).
replacement	string		—	Replacement string.

# Replace every occurrence of a placeholder token in a template
- group: string
  name: replaceAll
  params:
    string: 'task.name, task.status, task.owner'
    pattern: 'task.'
    replacement: 'pipeline.'

slice

Extracts a portion of a string using start and optional end indices.

Returns: The extracted substring.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to slice.
start	number	✓	—	Start index (inclusive).
end	number		—	End index (exclusive). Omit to slice to the end.

# Extract the action type from a dot-separated action identifier
- group: string
  name: slice
  params:
    string: 'string.camelCase'
    start: 7

Slice & Tokenize

split

Splits a string into an array of substrings using a separator.

Returns: An array of substrings.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to split.
separator	string	✓	—	Separator string to split on.
limit	number		—	Optional maximum number of parts to return.

# Split a comma-separated list of pipeline tags into an array
- group: string
  name: split
  params:
    string: 'pdf,invoice,ocr,email'
    separator: ','

substring

Extracts a substring between the given start and end indices.

Returns: The extracted substring.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to extract a substring from.
start	number	✓	—	Start index (inclusive).
end	number	✓	—	End index (exclusive).

# Extract a substring by fixed indices — e.g., pull the group prefix from an action ID
- group: string
  name: substring
  params:
    string: 'string.camelCase'
    start: 0
    end: 6

words

Splits a string into an array of words using an optional pattern.

Returns: An array of word tokens.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to split into words.
pattern	string | any		—	Optional regex pattern to use as the word boundary.

# Tokenize a task name into individual words
- group: string
  name: words
  params:
    string: '{{ taskName }}'

trim

Removes whitespace from both ends of a string.

Returns: The trimmed string.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to trim whitespace from.

# Strip leading and trailing whitespace from user-submitted input
- group: string
  name: trim
  params:
    string: '  Send Daily Report  '

Whitespace

trimEnd

Removes whitespace from the end of a string.

Returns: The string with trailing whitespace removed.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to trim trailing whitespace from.

# Remove trailing whitespace only — e.g., after log line formatting
- group: string
  name: trimEnd
  params:
    string: 'Pipeline completed   '

trimStart

Removes whitespace from the start of a string.

Returns: The string with leading whitespace removed.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to trim leading whitespace from.

# Remove leading whitespace only — e.g., after YAML indentation read
- group: string
  name: trimStart
  params:
    string: '   extract invoice data'

len

Returns the number of characters in a string.

Returns: The length of the string.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to measure the length of.

# Get the character length of a task name for validation or truncation checks
- group: string
  name: len
  params:
    string: '{{ taskName }}'

Utility

stringify

Converts any value to its string representation.

Returns: The string representation of the value.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
value	any	✓	—	The value to stringify.
pretty	boolean		false	Whether to pretty-print JSON output.
indent	number		2	Number of spaces for indentation when pretty is true (default 2).

# Serialize a pipeline result object for logging or storing as a variable
- group: string
  name: stringify
  params:
    value:
      task: 'send-daily-report'
      status: 'completed'
      duration: 4821
    pretty: true

format

Interpolates values into a template string using {key} placeholders.

Returns: The interpolated string.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
template	string	✓	—	Template string with {key} placeholders.
values	Record<string, any>	✓	—	Object mapping placeholder keys to their replacement values.

# Interpolate dynamic values into a notification message template
- group: string
  name: format
  params:
    template: 'Task "{task}" finished with status {status} in {duration}ms.'
    values:
      task: 'Send Daily Report'
      status: 'completed'
      duration: 4821

Template & Encoding

encodeHTMLEntities

Escapes special HTML characters in a string to their entity equivalents.

Returns: The HTML-encoded string.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to HTML-encode (e.g. & → &).

# Escape HTML in pipeline output before embedding it in an email body
- group: string
  name: encodeHTMLEntities
  params:
    string: '{{ htmlContent }}'

decodeHTMLEntities

Converts HTML entities back to their original characters.

Returns: The decoded string.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The HTML-encoded string to decode.

# Decode HTML entities received from an external API response
- group: string
  name: decodeHTMLEntities
  params:
    string: '{{ encodedHtml }}'

encodeURIComponent

Percent-encodes a string for safe use as a URI component.

Returns: The percent-encoded URI component.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to percent-encode for use in a URI.

# Encode a task name for safe inclusion in a URL query parameter
- group: string
  name: encodeURIComponent
  params:
    string: '{{ taskName }}'

decodeURIComponent

Decodes a percent-encoded URI component back to its original string.

Returns: The decoded string.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The percent-encoded URI component to decode.

# Decode a percent-encoded query parameter back to its original value
- group: string
  name: decodeURIComponent
  params:
    string: 'Send%20Daily%20Report%20-%20Sales%20Pipeline'

parseQueryString

Parses a URL query string into a key-value object.

Returns: A parsed object representation of the query string.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	URL query string to parse (e.g. "a=1&b=2").

# Parse a webhook query string into a structured object
- group: string
  name: parseQueryString
  params:
    string: 'status=running&tags[]=pdf&tags[]=invoice&limit=10'

Query String

stringifyQueryObject

Serializes a key-value object into a URL query string.

Returns: The query string representation of the object.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
object	Record<string, any>	✓	—	Object of key-value pairs to serialize as a query string.

# Serialize pipeline filter options into a query string for an HTTP request
- group: string
  name: stringifyQueryObject
  params:
    object:
      status: 'completed'
      tags:
        - pdf
        - invoice
      limit: 10

slugify

Converts a string into a URL-friendly slug.

Strips accents, replaces non-alphanumeric characters with hyphens, and lowercases.

Returns: The slugified string.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
string	string	✓	—	The string to slugify (e.g. "Hello World" → "hello-world").

# Generate a URL-friendly slug from a task name (strips accents and special characters)
- group: string
  name: slugify
  params:
    string: '{{ taskName }}'

Slug

template

Returns a multi-line string with {{ variable }} placeholders already resolved by the pipeline before this action runs.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
content	string	✓	—	The template string with placeholders.
format	plain | html | markdown | css		"plain"	Output content format: plain, html, markdown, or css.

- group: string
  name: template
  params:
    format: html
    content: |
      <h1>Hello {{ name }}</h1>
      <p>Your order {{ order_id }} is ready.</p>
  output: email_body

renderTemplate

Renders a Liquid template kept as data — a variable, a database row, a file read earlier — with the values in data. Step params only fill in {{ }} typed into the step itself and leave the contents of variables alone, so a stored template needs this step to be filled in. Loops ({% for %}), conditions ({% if %}) and filters (date, join, truncate…) all work; include, render and layout don't.

Returns: The rendered text.

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
template	string	✓	—	The template, usually a variable holding it: '{= myTemplate =}'. Text typed here is filled in with the workflow's variables first, so pass templates in a variable.
data	Record<string, any>		{}	What the template can use, by name, e.g. { node: {= node =}, site: {= site =} }.

# Fill in a page template saved in the CMS with one article's values
- group: string
  name: renderTemplate
  params:
    template: '{= articleTemplate =}'
    data:
      node: '{= node =}'
      site: '{= site =}'
  destination: html