# Workflow Builder Basics

> Build, connect, validate, and publish a workflow on the visual canvas.

The **Workflow Builder** is a visual canvas for designing automated workflows.

## Adding steps

Click a tile in the palette to drop it on the canvas. Common step types:

- **Process** — an AI agent task run by the Continuo server (needs an API key).
- **Coding Agent** — work dispatched to a Coda endpoint on a connected machine.
- **Checkpoint** — pause and wait for a human to approve.
- **Webhook / Email / Slack / SMS** — outbound actions.
- **End** — terminates the workflow.

## Connecting steps

Drag from the dots on the edge of a step to another step to create a transition.
Double-click a step to configure it. Press **Del** to remove the selected step.

## Validate, publish, launch

1. **Save** your work at any time.
2. **Validate** to check for errors before going live.
3. **Publish** to make the workflow runnable.
4. **Launch Run** to start a run of the published workflow.

> If the canvas appears blank, reload the page — the builder loads the saved
> workflow when it opens.