Big Feature - Workflows

[jparr721]

Overview

I think I'm similar to others in that when I start a branch, especially when I'm using something like a linear ticket, I have a pretty standard sequence of operations that I want to execute. Something that I've thought about here is just like we have the review button today that spawns an agent, I feel like I'd like to have a workflow button or something like that where I can have a multi-step operation specified. The idea here is that there would be a button called workflow. I would click it and it would open a dialog. The dialog would be a free text input where I could put the linear task description since linear actually supports copying the entire task as a prompt. And then effectively what would happen is some pre-generated prompt that I wrote, for example, something like:

Fan out an agent workflow to implement . Your role is the orchestrator doling out tasks to each sub-agent. The eventual deliverable is the entire task done in THIS worktree as one large PR. You MUST tell the agents the following

1. Complete their assigned task.
2. Run a code review of their changes
3. Perform ANY finding fixes.
   Then you will handle ordering their tasks and code into this worktree. Do NOT merge without me, I will code review, just make the PR. Make sure all work trees are cleaned up if your sub-agents used them when you’re done. Please ensure once all tasks are done you run one final code review.

The idea basically is just a free form prompt input that gets basically pasted directly into the chat right from the start. Thoughts?

[simion]

Interesting. This can be approached in many ways. I was thinking of even doing some sort of agent orchestration within Termic. Let the agents do their magic. But since it's programatic use, on claude it wont use subscription, and that's why i stopped.

The closest thing you could use right now for long running tasks is Message queue.
Attaching a screenshot on how to use it:

I'm using it in a Ralph-Loop style.

Here's the proof it fired the first queued message, as it completed the initial task and i was writing this comment:

This message queue prompting style leverage the "work done" detection i fkin struggled alot with to get it right, and once it detects the agent is done working, submits next message. So we might build on this, and just paste the queues messages, even the code review as a last message step. Maybe pre-configured saved workflow messages for the repetitive parts, and only change the task description.

[jparr721]

A message queue would be INCREDIBLE. I would LOVE that feature for sure.

[simion]

It's already there, guess i need to make it more visible, maybe add it somewhere down the bottom where you actually type stuff, or choose a better icon 😬

[simion]

@jparr721 just moved Queued messages to bottom toolbar.

[jparr721]

Whoop! Haha, sorry I missed that! I will leave this open if you or anyone else has ideas, feel free to close though.