Working with Projects

This section covers how to manage standalone RPA projects using the UiPath CLI, Azure DevOps extension, and Jenkins plugin.

What are standalone projects?

Standalone projects are individual UiPath automation projects that are packaged, deployed, and managed independently. These include:

• Process projects - Automations that execute business workflows
• Library projects - Reusable components shared across automations
• Test projects - Automated test cases for validating automations
• Template projects - Pre-configured project structures used as starting points for new automations

Starting with 25.10, UiPath also supports solutions, which bundle multiple projects, configurations, and assets into a single deployable unit. For solution workflows, see Working with solutions.

Project lifecycle in CI/CD

A typical CI/CD workflow for standalone projects follows these steps:

1. Restore dependencies - Download required libraries and packages from NuGet feeds.
2. Analyze - Validate project against Workflow Analyzer rules and governance policies.
3. Pack - Package the project into a NuGet package (.nupkg).
4. Deploy - Publish the package to Orchestrator.
5. Deploy assets - Configure environment-specific assets.
6. Run - Execute the automation as a job in Orchestrator.
7. Test - Run test sets to validate functionality.

Not all steps are required for every project type. For example, Library projects are typically only packed and deployed, not run or tested directly.

Available tasks

The following tasks are available for working with standalone projects:

Task	Description	CLI Command
Restore dependencies	Download project dependencies from NuGet feeds	uipcli package restore
Analyze	Validate project against Workflow Analyzer rules	uipcli package analyze
Pack	Package project into .nupkg file	uipcli package pack
Deploy	Publish package to Orchestrator	uipcli package deploy
Run job	Execute automation in Orchestrator	uipcli job run
Test	Run test package or test set in Orchestrator	uipcli test run
Deploy assets	Create or update Orchestrator assets	uipcli asset deploy
Delete assets	Remove assets from Orchestrator	uipcli asset delete

Authentication requirements

To use these tasks, you must authenticate with Orchestrator using an external application with the appropriate OAuth scopes.

See API access application scopes for the required permissions.

Detailed task documentation

For step-by-step instructions on each task, see:

• Restoring automation dependencies
• Analyzing a project
• Packing projects into a package
• Deploying a package to Orchestrator
• Running a job inside Orchestrator
• Testing a package or running a test set
• Testing multiple packages
• Deploying assets to Orchestrator
• Deleting assets from Orchestrator
• Running tasks using JSON configuration