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There are currently several methods for packaging workflows, all with advantages and disadvantages of course. For example: deanishe uses a script similar to: https://gist.github.com/deanishe/b16f018119ef3fe951af documents the export function within Alfred itself: https://alfredworkflow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorial_2.html#sharing-your-workflow shawnrice appears to use a shell script: https://github.com/shawnrice/packal-updater/blob/master/alfred.bundler.sh Wolph (me) uses a Makefile: https://github.com/WoLpH/alfred-converter/blob/master/Makefile It seems to me that there is a better solution though. The setuptools package is widely used within the Python community to compile, build and deploy packages to the PyPI servers but it can do more. The Sphinx-PyPI-upload-2 package for example (https://github.com/WoLpH/sphinx-pypi-upload) makes it possible to upload Sphinx documentation to the PyPI servers which can be built using the commands from Sphinx itself. With that regard I propose a new solution for packaging Alfred workflows: Use entry_points to create a bdist_alfred command similar to bdist_wheel (https://wheel.readthedocs.org/) Create a upload_packal command similar to upload_sphinx (https://github.com/WoLpH/sphinx-pypi-upload/blob/master/setup.py#L32-L36) Create a standard for specifying Alfred entry points through the setup.py