# Your first workflow

At the end, you have watched a workflow run on your own code: who worked it, every word each step was sent, every word it said back, and the pull request at the end.

## At a glance

**Time:** 10 minutes, mostly watching.

**What you need:**

- Loopgate open, on your laptop or your team's runner
- One coding tool signed in on Settings → Engines
- A workspace added, a repository of yours

## How it works

A **task** is one thing you want done, in your words. A **workflow** is who does it and in what order: agent steps that write, checks that run a command, gates where a person decides, loops that go round a bounded number of times, and a pull request at the end. Everything you start is a run of a workflow; one agent alone is a workflow of one step.

Before anything runs, the draft card shows who works it, the task as the steps will get it, and one sentence of setup: the model and thinking level, the access, the rounds, the spending limit. Every value opens its choices. Nothing is hidden: every word a step will be sent is one click away.

The run is a conversation. On the right, in your colour, what each step was sent, with a Loopgate flag; on the left, what it said back; a band for each round; a card for each decision that waits for you. A step with Workspace access commits its work on a branch of its own, in a worktree beside your repository, never inside it.

## Try it

1. **On Tasks, type what you want done**, such as "Add a README that explains how to run this project", and leave **Who** on **Auto**.

   You should see: the copilot's proposal under your words: a workflow or an agent, with the task row, the steps and the setup sentence.

2. **Click a step's name on the card** to see its engine, access, persona and instructions, and **See every word** to read the whole message it will be sent.

3. **Press Start.**

   You should see: the card fold to a receipt, then the run's conversation: the first step's message on the right, its reply on the left as it works, and the Workflow card with each step lit as it runs.

4. **Wait for the finish line**, or for a card that waits for you: an approval, a choice, a question. Answer it where it is asked.

5. **Press Open pull request** in the header once a step has committed.

   You should see: a draft pull request on GitHub whose description lists the workflow, the task, the steps whose commits the branch holds, the checks and the cost.

## Check

Open the finished step's reply and press **Full screen**: its whole message, which is also the file the next step was handed. Press **Worked** under it to see every tool call it made.

## Next

Pick a workflow on purpose: [The patterns](patterns.md). Change one while it runs: [Steer a run](steer.md).