We’ve all been there. The senior RPA developer left six months ago. The documentation is a single, outdated PowerPoint slide. And the production bot that processes invoice exceptions just failed—with no source code to be found.
# Unpack a published NuGet package unzip MyProcess.1.0.0.nupkg -d ./decompiled cat ./lib/net48/MyProcess.xaml The XAML is human-readable—you’ll see Assign activities, Sequence containers, and embedded C# expressions in [CDATA] blocks. rpa decompiler
Because these formats are essentially , they can be reversed—assuming you understand the schema. Real-World RPA Decompilation Approaches 1. UiPath: The Low-Hanging Fruit UiPath stores workflows as XAML files (WPF-inspired). Even "published" NuGet packages contain raw XAML inside the lib/net48/ folder. We’ve all been there
"command": "assign", "parameters": "variable": "$v_InvoiceTotal$", "value": "$v_Subtotal$ + $v_Tax$" "parameters": "variable": "$v_InvoiceTotal$"