[galaxy-user] Call galaxy workflows as web service (or cmd line)?

I have a local install of Galaxy, and it would be very helpful if I could leverage Galaxy to help automate some analysis pipelines. Specifically via a web service'y interface (command line would work too). This does not appear possible in the current version, but It seems many features are enabled but not documented yet, so thought I'd check here. If it is in development, I'd be interested in helping out. Thanks! John