Visual Workflows & Pipeline Automation

The Workflows module is a visual, node-based automation canvas powered by @xyflow/react. It enables you to design automated event pipelines, linking incoming network proxy triggers to custom processing steps, assertions, notifications, or external scripts.

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Node Types & Building Blocks

Workflows are created by connecting nodes together on an interactive canvas:

1. Trigger Nodes

• HTTP Traffic Trigger: Fires when an incoming request matches a specific URL path, method, or status code.
• Timer / Schedule Trigger: Executes pipeline flows periodically (e.g., every 15 minutes).
• Manual Trigger: Executed on-demand via a button click or AI agent event.

2. Action Nodes

• Request Replayer Node: Sends an HTTP request with dynamic parameter inputs.
• Script Node: Executes custom JavaScript functions to transform payload data.
• Extract Node: Uses regex or JSONPath to capture token values from response bodies.
• Notification Node: Triggers desktop alerts, webhook calls, or logs custom events.

3. Logic & Assertion Nodes

• Conditional Branch (If/Else): Evaluates response metrics or header values to route execution down different canvas paths.
• Assertion Node: Verifies whether target criteria (e.g., status == 200, response time < 500ms) are satisfied.

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Creating Your First Workflow

1. Open Workflows from the main sidebar.
2. Drag an HTTP Trigger Node onto the canvas.
3. Connect its output port to a JSON Extractor Node to pull out an authentication token.
4. Connect the Extractor output to a Repeater Action Node that re-uses the token.
5. Click Run Workflow or set it to Active Listener mode.

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Use Cases

• Automated Authentication Refresh: Automatically catch token expiration errors and fire login requests to refresh session tokens in the background.
• Real-Time Alerting: Receive instant desktop notifications whenever an API endpoint returns a 500-level backend error.
• Multi-Step API Orchestration: Execute complex multi-step integration test flows visually.