Flow Studio
Build and deploy Flow Studio automations from a chat, change one part of an existing flow without rewriting it, and inspect or report on the flows you already run.
Ask Claude to design new automations, change the ones you have, and understand how they are running. Three guides cover this area.
Build a flow
Guide: flow-studio-flow-builder
What it does: Designs and builds Flow Studio automations for you. It asks about your goal, trigger, and integrations, then assembles a working flow (for example, pull leads from Google Sheets, loop through them, place voice calls, then update your CRM) and deploys it after you approve.
Use it when: You want to create a new automation, build a flow from a use case or a spec you paste in, organize flows into a folder, or run a flow.
Try saying:
"Build me a flow that calls leads from a Google Sheet and updates the row with the result."
"Create an automation that emails a summary after each WhatsApp conversation."
"Run the lead-import flow with this test input."
You get back: A summary of the flow it designed, a status table of which integration credentials are connected versus missing, a preview of what will be created or changed, and after you approve, the deployed flow and a checklist of any fields you still need to configure in Flow Studio.
Writes data? Yes, via preview then confirm.
Behind the scenes: search_flow_templates, get_flow_template_by_id, search_node_templates, get_node_template_by_id (proven building blocks), get_workspace_integrations (credentials), validate_flow_structure, then preview_create_flow and commit_create_flow, preview_create_flow_folder and commit_create_flow_folder, preview_update_flow and commit_update_flow, preview_execute_flow and commit_execute_flow.
Change one part of a flow
Guide: flow-patching
What it does: Changes one part of an existing flow without rewriting it. Claude reads the wiring, drills into a single node, and sends only the operations needed, so everything you did not name is preserved exactly. If somebody changed the flow in Flow Studio in the meantime, the change is refused instead of silently reverting their work. This guide also covers archiving a flow, with its callers and schedule shown first.
Use it when: You want to add a step, change a filter, edit one node, archive a flow, or go back to an earlier version.
Try saying:
"Add a follow-up email step to my appointment-reminder flow."
"Change the filter in the second step so it only keeps leads from Mexico."
"Archive the old onboarding flow. What depends on it?"
You get back: A preview of the exact change, and after you confirm, the updated flow.
Writes data? Yes, via preview then confirm.
Behind the scenes: get_flow_graph, get_flow_node, preview_patch_flow and commit_patch_flow, preview_archive_flow and commit_archive_flow, search_agents_referencing, diff_flow_versions, preview_rollback_flow and commit_rollback_flow.
Inspect and report
Guide: flow-studio-analytics
What it does: Inspects and reports on your existing Flow Studio automations. Lists your flows and folders, explains what a flow does, shows execution health, run history, version history, configured integrations, schedules and webhook details. Read-only.
Use it when: You want to list or count your flows, see how often a flow runs and its error rate, read the last runs of a flow, find out who last edited a flow, check connected integrations, or get a flow's input schema or webhook URL.
Try saying:
"List all the automations in my workspace."
"Show me the last runs of the call-automation flow. Did any fail?"
"Which of my flows mention this spreadsheet?"
You get back: Flow lists grouped by folder, per-flow execution stats, a list of recent runs with the detail of any one of them, version history, an integrations list, and flow input schemas or webhook URLs on request.
Writes data? No, read-only.
Behind the scenes: get_workspace_flows, search_flows, get_flow_details, get_flow_execution_stats, get_flow_execution_logs, get_flow_execution_detail, get_flow_versions, get_flow_version, get_workspace_integrations, get_flow_webhook_url, get_flow_input_schema, get_scheduled_task.
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