Interactive workflows

An interactive workflow keeps an agent (often a coordinator) running as a live chat participant, so you — or a colleague you share a link with — can talk to it during the run.

Chatting with a running workflow on the canvas

Enable it

1. On the agent/coordinator node, turn on Interactive (optionally set a greeting shown when the chat opens).
2. Turn on the workflow's Persistent toggle (toolbar) so the run stays alive instead of finishing after one pass.
3. Save and Run.

Chat on the canvas

When the run starts, a Live Conversation panel appears in the run inspector. Type a message and the agent responds in real time; a coordinator will delegate to its sub-agents and reply with an aggregated answer.

The greeting isn't the task

On an interactive agent, the greeting is just the opening line — the agent then waits for you. Send a message to kick things off. If you want a hands-off, one-shot run instead, turn Interactive off and give the coordinator its task directly (see Agent orchestration).

Share a chat link (widget)

You can mint a shareable link that opens the conversation in a standalone chat widget — handy for letting a colleague interact with the workflow without opening the canvas. The link carries a signed, time-limited access token scoped to that one conversation.