Build a workflow

There are three ways to start a workflow from scratch, and you can also import one. Each one arrives as a Draft: nothing runs until you deploy it.

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Start from a brief

When no AI model is configured for your workspace, the assistant can only start from a built-in template: send one of the starter briefs unchanged, or use the Templates tab.

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Start from a template

Open Templates, select a card (or Preview it first) and choose Use template. Hive makes a new private draft; the template itself is unchanged. If the steps need connected accounts, a setup guide asks which account each app should use. See Templates.

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Start blank

Select New workflow in the builder header, or + New workflow in All workflows. The draft is saved as a real workflow the first time you add a step or describe it in the chat.

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Add steps

A workflow has one trigger, the first card, and any number of steps after it. To add a step:

• select Add step in the dock under the canvas;
• hover a connection and select its + to insert a step between two cards; or
• hover the line after the last card of a flow or branch and select +.

The Add step menu has three sections: Integrations is filled from the apps your workspace has connected, so it is empty until one that offers a step is connected. The step reference describes every type. A card opens with its settings showing; a warning chip names any required field still empty.

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Configure the trigger

Select the trigger card and choose Manual, In-app form, Public form or Schedule. For a form, add a title and its fields. See Triggers.

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Connect and arrange

• Drag a card to move it, drag empty canvas to pan. Hold Shift, Ctrl or Cmd to select several cards, then move or delete them together.
• Drag from a card’s connection port onto another card to connect them, or select the port and then the card. Hive refuses a connection that would create a cycle and says why.
• A rule condition has true and false branches; an AI condition has one path per condition, plus Else when Force AI to select a path is off.
• Deleting a step reconnects the cards around it. The trigger cannot be deleted or duplicated.
• Undo, Redo, zoom, Fit canvas and Fullscreen sit on the canvas controls.

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Pass values between steps

Type {{ in a prompt or message, or use Insert a value from an earlier step, to use an earlier output, for example {{trigger.client_name}} or {{draft.text}}.

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Saving

The builder saves the draft automatically a moment after each edit and shows the status in the header. If the workflow changed in another session, Hive keeps your local edits and asks: Reload latest or Keep editing.

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The workflow menu

Beside the workflow name: An import always creates a new private draft without anyone’s connected accounts, and lists what it left open, such as steps that still need an account.

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Next: test it

Run the draft from any card with Run workflow from here or Run this node only. Test runs never send anything. When it behaves, deploy it.

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