Introducing Workflows: describe a job, and your agent does it

Workflow examples are the fastest way to give an agent a job, when one fits. But a lot of work is done your own way: a weekly blog post in your voice, a check on three competitors' prices, a Monday summary of last week's numbers. Setting up a job like that used to mean doing it piece by piece. Workflows do that part for you.

Pick the agent and describe the job

Every workflow belongs to one of your agents, so you start by picking the agent that does this kind of work, such as your marketing agent for a blog post. The quickest way is the "Build a workflow" button on that agent's Workflows tab.

Then you describe the job, the way you would explain it to a new colleague. For example: "Every Monday, find timely blog ideas about our product, ask me which one to write, draft it, and let me review it before it goes up." That's it. There are no forms to fill in and no diagrams to draw.

LoopEngine works out a plan

LoopEngine then works out a plan for that agent. First it reads what the agent already has: its identity and rules, the apps it's connected to, and where its messages reach you. That way the plan uses what's already there. This takes a minute or two, and nothing changes while it works.

The plan breaks your job into steps, and every step is one of four kinds:

• Things the agent does on its own, like searching the web for ideas.
• Its own thinking and writing, like picking the three best ideas or drafting the post.
• Questions for you, like "which idea should I write?", sent to you in Slack or by email with the choices to pick from.
• Approvals, like "here's the post, can I publish it?", where nothing happens until you say yes.

If a step can't be done yet, for example because none of your apps can publish a blog post, the plan tells you up front instead of surprising you later.

If the job doesn't look like the agent's kind of work, such as a payroll job given to your support agent, the plan says so. You can create a new agent for it and come straight back with your description, or add it to this agent anyway.

Check everything before it's set up

You can see everything before anything is set up:

• Each step and what it becomes.
• What the agent may do on its own and what it must ask you first. Rules the agent already has stay as they are.
• When it runs.
• Rules and facts for this job, which go at the top of the workflow's instructions. The agent keeps its own.
• The written instructions it will follow.

Add what the agent is missing

A plan can need things the agent doesn't have yet. "Before you create it" lists them, each with a link to where you add it:

• An app the steps use, such as GitHub or Stripe. If the app is connected to your workspace, you add it to the agent on its Apps tab. If it isn't, you connect it on the Apps page first.
• Messaging, for a job that runs on a schedule or from a webhook and needs to ask you something or send you its results. You set up Slack, email, Lark or a webhook on the agent's Messaging tab.

The Create button stays off until "Check again" finds everything in place. LoopEngine never connects an app or changes the agent's messaging on its own.

Create it and try it

When you're happy with the plan, you click Create. LoopEngine adds the workflow to the agent, with its steps, its rules and any abilities it needs. To be safe, the schedule starts switched off, and a short checklist shows anything left to do, such as adding a key. The job then appears on the agent's Workflows tab, where you can press Run now to try it once and see how it goes before turning the schedule on.

Built on abilities

Agents connect to your apps through what we call abilities. An ability gives an agent the tools for one app, like Gmail, Shopify or the web, along with sensible safety rules: reading is allowed, while anything that sends, publishes or spends money asks you first. Workflows use these, so every plan starts out safe. Alongside Workflows we added a new ability for Firecrawl, which helps an agent search the web for recent news, read pages and gather information from websites. It's exactly what the weekly blog post above needs.

No black box

There's no black box here. A workflow is made of the same instructions, schedule and rules you could have set up yourself, and you can open and change any of them at any time.

Try it

Workflows are available now. Open one of your agents, go to its Workflows tab, choose "Build a workflow", write what you want done, and check the plan. If a workflow example already fits your job, start there. If your job is done your own way, just describe it. For how agents, workflows and messages fit together, read The relationships between agent and workflow.

Updated on 2026-11-11: a workflow now always goes into an agent you pick, and waits for that agent's apps and messaging before it's created.