Start from a template
Building a workflow from scratch is powerful, but most of the time you don't have to. The template gallery ships a set of curated, ready-to-run workflows — import one, fill in a short form, and it just runs. Then you tweak it into exactly what you need.
Where to find it
From Workflows, click Templates. The "Start from a template" gallery opens — each card shows what the workflow does, whether it's a single prompt or a multi-step flow, and any connection it needs (e.g. Google).
The two-minute path
- Pick a template that's close to what you want.
- Click it to import. It's copied into your own workspace in one click — nothing is shared back to the gallery.
- Single-prompt templates are ready to run. You land straight on the run page — fill the short, typed form (a topic, a brief, a question…), hit Run, and you have a result. No raw JSON, no setup.
- Multi-step templates open as an editable draft. Open it in the Builder to glance over the wired-up nodes, then Publish — that switches on the typed run form and the Run button. After that it's the same one-click run as above, and you can put it on a schedule.
Either way you go from "interesting idea" to "running workflow" in a couple of clicks — and you can stop to customize at any point.
Watch it run — live
Hit Run and the run view streams every step as it happens: which node is executing, what each one produced, and where the result flows next. No staring at a spinner wondering if it's stuck — you see the flow light up node by node, and the final output lands inline when it's done.
Dry-run before you spend
Not sure a flow is wired right? Dry-run it first. A dry run validates the whole graph — every templated field resolves, every node connects, the budget fits — and tells you exactly which calls it would make, all without making a single LLM, tool, or messaging call. Zero tokens, zero cost. It's the cheapest way to catch a typo'd prompt or a broken reference before a real run spends anything.
Approvals that survive a deploy
Some flows pause for a human — "approve this before it sends." Those pauses are durable: the run isn't holding a thread open in memory, it's parked safely and waiting. Approve it an hour later, a day later, even after we've shipped an update in between — the run picks up exactly where it left off and finishes. Nothing is lost to a restart.
What's in the gallery
Quick single-prompt helpers — paste your content, get a clean result:
- Weekly Summary, Daily Standup, Meeting Notes → Action Items
- Bug Triage, PR Description Drafter
- Blog Post Outline, Customer Feedback Synthesis
Multi-step flows — several agents and tools wired together:
- Research Brief (parallel) — two researchers tackle a topic from different angles, a third synthesizes
- Outline → Draft → Edit — a three-stage writing pipeline
- Decision Memo (analyst + critic) — draft, stress-test, then fold the critique back in
- Inbox Priority Digest and Weekly Calendar Brief — turn your Gmail / Calendar into a prioritized brief (needs a connected Google account)
- Daily News Brief — a 5-bullet brief on your beat, ready to schedule
- ETL Pipeline — fetch an API, clean it, roll it up, export to your Library
- SMS Notification — text a status to one of your own verified numbers
Pattern starters — import one to see how a capability is wired, then adapt it:
- Batch Research (loop) — runs an agent once per item of a list, in parallel, and gathers the results (the forEach + collect loop)
- Ticket Triage Router — classifies an input, then routes it down a dedicated branch (structured output + the Switch router)
- Process New Items (dedup) — handles only items it hasn't seen before, remembering across runs (the cross-run data store)
- Structured Extraction — pulls clean, typed JSON out of freeform text, with a schema and automatic retry
Make it yours
- Edit anything after import. Swap the pinned agent, rewrite a prompt, point a search at your own topic — the template is just a starting point you own.
- Connect what it needs. If a card shows a Google badge, link your account first (the workflow will tell you if you forgot).
- Put the recurring ones on a schedule. The digests and the news brief are designed to run every morning — add a schedule from the workflow's panel.
Template or Builder?
Reach for a template when something close already exists — it's the fastest path to a result. Reach for the Workflow Builder agent (see Build your first workflow with the Workflow Builder agent) when you want something custom and would rather describe it than assemble it. Many people start from a template and then ask the Builder to extend it.
Imported one and shaped it into something useful? Share it in Showcase — we love seeing what people automate.