Everything the console does, the API does
Import, validate, review, release and deploy from your own pipeline. The console is a client of the same v1 API.
Validation belongs in CI
Run the same validation your release gate runs as a pull-request check, so a broken fragment is caught by the person who changed it rather than by a reviewer a week later.
Releases from your pipeline
Build, finalize, export and deploy a release over the API, with the same manifest and the same gate as the console. Deploy agents are the only thing that touches your environments.
Start with an estate assessment
Point YakForms at a copy of your repository. You get an inventory, a dependency graph and a validation report for the whole estate — before you commit to anything.