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Getting started with Novalink
Novalink is a visual editor for AI agent workflows. This guide takes you from a new account to a workflow that runs, with every node reporting its status live on the canvas.
Create an account
Open the sign-in page and continue with Google, or create an account with your email and a password. Email accounts get a confirmation link before the first sign-in.
Add a credential
Agent nodes call Claude with your own Anthropic API key. Open Credentials in the sidebar, choose Add credential, and paste the key. It is encrypted at rest and never shown in the browser again.
Build your first workflow
- On Workflows, choose New workflow. The editor opens on an empty canvas.
- Open the palette (⌘ K) and add a Manual Trigger, an Agent and an Output.
- Drag from each node's output handle to the next node's input to connect them.
- Select the agent, pick the credential and a model, and write a user prompt that reads the trigger, for example
Summarise: {{ trigger.message }}.
Prefer to start from a description? Use the arrow next to New workflow and choose Generate with AI. Claude drafts a validated graph you can preview before creating it.
Run it and watch
Give the trigger a test payload such as {"message": "..."}, then press Run (⌘ ↵). Each node lights up as it runs, succeeds, fails or is skipped. Click a node to see exactly what it received and returned. Every run is saved, so you can reopen it later on a read-only canvas.
Publish a version
The canvas autosaves a draft. Publish freezes the draft into an immutable version, so later edits never change what a published version runs.
Keep reading
- Building workflows on the canvasHow Novalink workflows are structured: triggers, nodes, ports, data edges and tool edges, branching and merging, and how the executor decides what runs.
- Templates and expressionsPass data between workflow nodes with Jinja templates and expressions: read the trigger payload and upstream node output, branch on conditions, and keep raw values.
- AI support ticket triageBuild an AI support ticket triage workflow: Claude classifies urgency and topic with structured output, urgent tickets escalate, and the rest get a drafted reply.
Build it on the canvas
Create a free account and run your first workflow in the browser, or run Novalink on your own machine.