> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://tracecat-docs-core-features.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Workflows

> Powerful automation made easy

Workflows are a series of steps called [Actions](/actions).
Think of a workflow as a recipe that runs each step needed to complete a task, from start to finish.

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## Build a workflow

<Steps>
  <Step title="Add starting action">
    Drag and drop an action block from the sidebar onto the workflow canvas.
    Most workflows start with a [Webhook Action](/actions/types/webhook).
    Webhooks allow you to receive data from external systems (e.g. Crowdstrike alerts).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add receiving action">
    Add another action onto the workflow canvas.
    This action could be a [AI Summarize Action](/actions/types/ai-summarize),
    which uses a large language model (LLM) to summarize the alert received in the previous action.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Connect actions">
    Connect the actions together.
    This creates a sequence of actions that run in order.
  </Step>

  <Step title="🎉 Run your workflow">
    Press the `run` button to execute your workflow.

    To view the results of each action, check out the [event logs](/core/events) search panel.
    Event logs contain the results of each action alongside additional metadata (e.g. published time).
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Tip>You can quickly add and connect actions by clicking, instead of dragging, action blocks.</Tip>

## What next?

### Deploy

You can deploy your workflow.

<Info>Deployed workflows runs automatically whenever a starting [Webhook action](/actions/types/webhook) receives new data.</Info>

### Schedule

You can schedule your workflow to run as a cron job.

### Build bigger

You can build more complex workflows with [conditional logic](/actions/types/if-conditions/overview),
[AI actions](/actions/types/ai-actions), [data transforms](/actions/types/data-transforms) and more.
See all available [Actions](core//actions).