Sanity vs Workato
Side-by-side trajectory, velocity, and editorial themes.
Sanity is quietly wiring its CMS to be operated by agents as much as by humans.
Sanity is shipping on several fronts in parallel: a maturing MCP server and agent tooling, a Media Library growing real asset-management depth, and steady Studio and SDK ergonomics. The recent run is incremental but coherent — richer Media Library metadata and reference tracking, searchable reference fields, and a stream of MCP tool fixes. Nothing here reshapes the product; it is compounding polish on an already broad platform.
The clearest theme is agent-operability. The MCP server, a skills-install CLI command, agent-focused doc quickstarts, and copy-paste commands 'for humans and agents' all point at Sanity treating AI coding agents as a first-class way to drive the CMS. In parallel, Media Library is being built out toward a full DAM, and @sanity/presets is trimming schema boilerplate.
Expect the MCP and agent surface to keep expanding and Media Library to keep gaining DAM-grade features; the presets package suggests more ready-made schema building blocks ahead.
Workato is rebuilding its iPaaS into a platform for vertical AI agents.
Workato has turned its integration platform into an agent platform. The last quarter is dominated by 'Genies' — packaged conversational agents, now spanning EDI and IT support — plus the plumbing to run them: Agent Studio, Enterprise MCP, MCP Apps, and recipe-native knowledge management. The 700-plus connectors are being repositioned as the action layer those agents call.
The direction is agents that act, not just answer. IT Support Genie moves Genies past retrieval into privileged operations — provisioning access, resetting passwords, editing groups — behind approval workflows and audit logging. In parallel, credit-based pricing and Embed parity are being wired so partners can meter and resell this usage.
Expect more vertical Genies on the same template — a finance or HR Genie is the obvious next — and deeper A2A/MCP interoperability so Workato agents can coordinate with agents built on other frameworks.
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