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Workflows

Chain Claude skills, tools, and external APIs into automated pipelines that run on triggers, schedules, or user actions — no coding required.

Automation Pipelines Triggers Multi-Step

🧠 What It Is

Workflows let you combine Claude's capabilities into multi-step automated sequences. Each step can use a different skill or tool — read data, process it with Claude, generate a document, post to Slack, update a database — all triggered by a schedule, a webhook, a user action, or another workflow.

Think of workflows as Claude-powered recipes: each step has an input and output, and data flows automatically from one step to the next. Unlike one-off prompts, workflows are repeatable, observable, and composable.

⚡ Trigger

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🔍 Gather Data

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🤖 Claude Process

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📝 Generate Output

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📤 Deliver

Trigger types: Manual (on demand), Scheduled (cron), Webhook (API call), Event-driven (file created, form submitted, PR opened), or chained (triggered by another workflow's output).

🛠️ 5 Real-World Examples

Example 01

Daily Standup Summarizer

Every morning at 9am: pull Slack messages from the team channel, Claude extracts blockers and highlights, posts a formatted standup summary back to Slack.

WorkflowTRIGGER: cron("0 9 * * 1-5") → Slack: get_messages(channel="#team", hours=18) → Claude: extract blockers, wins, and priorities → Slack: post_message(channel="#standup", content=summary)

Example 02

GitHub PR Review Assistant

Whenever a PR is opened, Claude reads the diff, checks for security issues and style violations, and posts a detailed review comment automatically — before a human reviewer even looks.

WorkflowTRIGGER: webhook(github, "pull_request.opened") → GitHub: get_diff(pr_number) → Claude: review for security, performance, style → GitHub: post_review_comment(pr_number, review)

Example 03

Content Pipeline: Blog to Social

When a new blog post is published, Claude reads it and auto-generates a Twitter thread, a LinkedIn post, and an email newsletter snippet — all tailored to each platform's style.

WorkflowTRIGGER: webhook(cms, "post.published") → fetch_post_content(url) → Claude: write Twitter thread (12 tweets) → Claude: write LinkedIn post (professional tone) → Claude: write email snippet (200 words) → Buffer: schedule_all(posts, time="9am tomorrow")

Example 04

Support Ticket Triage

New Zendesk tickets are automatically classified by urgency and category, enriched with relevant documentation links, and routed to the right team — with a draft reply Claude pre-writes.

WorkflowTRIGGER: webhook(zendesk, "ticket.created") → Claude: classify urgency (P1–P4) + category → search_docs(query=ticket_summary) → Claude: draft reply with doc links → Zendesk: update_ticket(priority, team, draft_reply)

Example 05

Weekly Competitor Intelligence Report

Every Friday: search the web for competitor news, Claude analyzes and summarizes strategic changes, generates a PDF report, and emails it to the leadership team.

WorkflowTRIGGER: cron("0 17 * * 5") → web_search("competitor1 news site:techcrunch.com last week") → web_search("competitor2 product updates this week") → Claude: synthesize competitive landscape changes → /pdf Generate competitive report (formatted) → email_send(to="leadership@company.com", attachment=pdf)

⚙️ Workflow Simulator interactive

Cowork — Workflow Engine

Click a quick-action to simulate a workflow execution.

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Pro tip: Start with a single-step workflow triggered manually, verify it works end-to-end, then add the schedule and additional steps. Complex multi-step workflows are easiest to debug when you can test each step in isolation.