Guides
Guides
How-to guides for authoring, running, testing, and operating Cori workflows.
How-to guides assume you have a goal and some competence with the CLI. If you're new, start with Getting started.
Authoring
Author a workflow
The complete procedure for capturing a conversation as a workflow.
Choose an activity kind
Decision tree: cli, mcp_tool, code, or llm?
Define parameters
What becomes a parameter vs. a constant, and how to declare them.
Test a workflow
Vitest fixtures for code steps; cori check for static validation.
Running & operating
Run and inspect
cori run flags, dry-run, reading traces.
Run remote workflows
Git refs, versioning, trust, and consent.
Set up worker pools
cori work and shared pools for multi-machine setups.
Configure Temporal
Auto-spawned dev server vs. production cluster.
Configure LLM providers
How llm steps resolve credentials at runtime.
Schedule a workflow
Add a cron schedule to a workflow manifest.