User guide/Skills & workflows

CHAPTER 28

Workflow Studio

Compose validated workflows from typed nodes and connections.

Workflow Studio combines typed nodes for input, context, story/graph/memory retrieval, Skills, Agents, model calls, review, scoring, conditions, patches, author confirmation, writes, and output.

The module library has three levels: example workflows provide a complete starting path, functional groups solve one class of task, and foundational modules support precise composition.

  1. Start from an example, a functional group, or a blank workflow, then name its purpose.
  2. Drag nodes from the library, move them into position, and connect compatible ports.
  3. Configure each node, validate, fix highlighted errors, and save.
  4. Close and reopen to verify nodes, positions, connections, and properties.

Inputs and outputs must match: for example, a context node outputs a Context Bundle, an Agent consumes context and rules, and a write node accepts only a confirmed candidate. Review connected edges before deleting a node; after copying one, verify its unique ID and parameters.

Failure strategies may retry a limited number of times, reduce context, use a backup model, return to a checkpoint, request author confirmation, or fail with evidence. They must not turn a failed review into a pass or write unconfirmed prose.

Both side panels can collapse to make room for the canvas. This changes layout only; reopening them must preserve the same modules, connections, and workflow version.

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