Workflows & stations

Stations, triggers, routing, handoffs between workflows, approvals, templates, work orders, supervision, and system impact with risk routing.

• Workflows and stationsWhat a workflow is, everything a station carries, why one worker per station is the rule, and how to divide work into stations that hold.
• TriggersDropped or created — what each trigger does, why comments never start work, how duplicate events are handled, and how to start a run deliberately.
• Pass, fail and retriesWhere a card goes when the work passes, fails or is blocked, what the retry limit is for, and how to design a loop that closes.
• Handoffs between workflowsRouting a card to another workflow in the same factory — move, send, or send and wait — the typed brief it carries, and what keeps it bounded.
• Approvals and peopleHuman stations, the agent-after-approval worker type, and where to put a person so the line still holds.
• NotificationsPer-station email on arrival, the shared Bookbag inbox, and mentions in the discussion.
• Workflow templatesThe 46 workflow templates in 9 categories, what a template sets up, and the rule that stops one overwriting your work.
• Workflow managersTalk to the workflow manager, configure its model and permissions, and understand what it can do when work needs help.
• Artifacts, contracts and evaluatorsDefine the evidence a station needs and independently judge a worker’s pass.
• Work orders and planningTrack a goal across dependent work items and multiple workflows.
• One factory working for anotherUse explicit intakes to pass bounded work into another factory and receive its result.
• Factory supervisionSpecialist supervisors per failure class, a factory supervisor above every workflow, one supervisor per piece of work at a time, and replanning the unmet rest of a work order.
• System impact and risk routingHow a card gets a blast radius — LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH or CRITICAL, with the reasons — from the System Map, how a person overrides it, and how a station's routes can depend on the level so critical work takes a longer path through the factory.