A new workflow starts inactive and does nothing until you set it live. Before you can, every step has to be configured.
A workflow that isn’t ready. Three steps carry errors, so Set live is greyed out.
Clear the errors first
The red number in the header is how many steps still need something. Each unfinished step carries a red marker, so you can see which.
Typical ones: an RSS trigger with no feed URL (RSS url missing), a schedule with no interval (Schedule missing), an AI agent step with no agent picked.
Set live stays disabled while any error remains. Hovering it says so:
All errors must be resolved before toggling the workflow on or off
Work down the chain from the trigger, selecting each step and filling it in. The error count falls as you go.
Set it live
With the count at zero, Set live switches the workflow on and the badge changes from Inactive to Live.
Pause switches it off again. A paused workflow keeps its configuration and its run history — pausing isn’t deleting, and setting it live again picks up from then on. It won’t replay anything it missed while paused.
Pausing is the right move when a workflow is behaving unexpectedly. It stops the runs — and the credits — immediately, and gives you time to look at what it did without deleting the evidence.
Reading the runs
Along the bottom of the builder are four counters, and View runs opens the full list.
| Outcome | Means |
|---|---|
| In progress | Running now |
| Succeeded | Finished, no error |
| Failed | Stopped on an error |
| Exited | Stopped deliberately — a Filter’s condition wasn’t met |
Exited is not a failure. A Comment-to-DM workflow filtering for one keyword exits on every comment that doesn’t contain it, which is the filter doing its job. A workflow with far more exits than successes usually means the filter is too narrow, not that something is broken.
Each run records when it was triggered, when it finished, how long it took, its status, and — if it failed — the error. Exited runs show the reason instead.
A workflow that has never fired shows No runs yet.
AI steps cost credits
Running a workflow is free. Its AI steps use credits each time they run: Generate social post costs 1 for the caption plus 5 for each image, and Write a reply or text costs 1. A workflow with AI steps that triggers often spends accordingly. See What each action costs.
If your balance runs out, runs that reach an AI step fail with:
You’ve exceeded the credit limit. Upgrade to get more.
The workflow stays live — it starts working again when your credits reset or you upgrade. See What are credits?