Agent Mode

Design, test, and ship workflows on an infinite canvas — with an AI coding agent that builds alongside you and live execution visible at every step.

Agent Mode is Pinkfish’s node-based workflow editor. Describe what you want in natural language and the coding agent builds it, or drop nodes onto the canvas yourself. Either way, you get a visual representation of every trigger, tool call, branch, and loop — plus real-time execution feedback, per-node outputs, version history, and a monitor for every past run.

Agent Mode is the successor to Guided Mode. Guided Mode walks you through a step-by-step workflow form; Agent Mode hands you an infinite canvas and an AI collaborator. Use Agent Mode for anything beyond the simplest single-step automation — it’s strictly more expressive.

The three panels

Every workflow in Agent Mode has the same layout:

Chat (left)

The coding agent that builds, edits, and explains your workflow on demand.

Canvas (center)

The infinite node-graph where your workflow lives. Drag, connect, inspect.

Right pane (tabs)

Workflow, Result, Interface, Code, and Log — pin and rearrange the tabs you care about.

The right pane can be split to show two tabs side-by-side — great for keeping the canvas and the output in view while you iterate.

Editor vs. Monitor

Agent Mode has two view modes, switched from the top of the editor:

• Editor — the authoring experience described above.
• Monitor — the run-history view. Replaces the chat panel with a list of past runs and the canvas with a read-only execution view. See Monitor tab.

You’ll spend most of your time in Editor while building, and flip to Monitor to audit, debug, or watch live runs.

Build a workflow in 30 seconds

1. Create a workflow

   From the Workflows library, click New Agentic Workflow. An empty canvas opens with a single Manual trigger and the coding agent chat ready on the left.

2. Describe what you want

   Type a prompt like “When a Gmail email arrives with ‘invoice’ in the subject, extract the amount and add a row to my Google Sheet”. Press Enter.

3. Let the agent build

   The agent adds a Gmail trigger, a parsing node, and a Google Sheets node, wired together. It explains what it did in the chat.

4. Run it

   Click Run Workflow in the tab bar. The canvas lights up with live node status. Check the Result tab for the final output.

5. Release

   Once a run succeeds in live mode, click Release to promote the draft into a versioned snapshot that the live Gmail trigger now uses.

The full feature set

Canvas & nodes

Canvas

Pan, zoom, connect, undo — the mechanics of the infinite workspace.

Adding nodes

The palette browser with Nodes, Triggers, and Interface tabs.

Node types

Every executable, control-flow, and special node you can place.

Triggers

Manual, API, schedule, email, app triggers, and events.

Interface builder

Give your workflow a user-facing form and results page.

Sticky notes & canvas

Annotate and personalize the canvas.

Working with the right pane

Editor tabs

Workflow, Result, Interface, Code, and Log.

Split view

Show two tabs side-by-side for faster debugging.

Running, iterating, shipping

Running a workflow

Manual runs, input dialogs, batch runs, auto-heal.

Mock mode & pinning

Iterate without burning real tool calls or re-running expensive steps.

Releases & versions

Promote drafts to live, compare versions, restore history, publish as a template.

Monitor

Inspect every past run — inputs, outputs, logs, agent reasoning.

Workflow administration

Actions menu

Share, duplicate, tag, describe, and configure resources.

Coding agent chat

The AI-powered authoring surface.

Real-time collaboration

Multiple editors can be in the same workflow simultaneously. You’ll see other users’ avatars in the header and their live cursors on the canvas as they work. Edits sync in real-time — no “someone else is editing” errors, no merge conflicts.

See Canvas — Collaborating on the canvas for what’s shared in real time (cursors, node dragging, presence) versus what stays local (selections, edits, zoom).

Agent Mode vs. Guided Mode

	Agent Mode	Guided Mode
Editor	Infinite node canvas	Sequential step form
Authoring	Natural-language chat + visual	Fill-in-the-blank
Control flow	Full (if/else, loops, parallel, approvals)	Linear steps
Sub-workflows	Yes	No
Best for	Anything beyond a single-step automation	Very simple linear flows
Expressiveness	Strictly more expressive	Simpler to scan at a glance

Most new workflows should use Agent Mode. Guided Mode remains supported for existing workflows and for the simplest use cases.

Where to start

I'm new — build my first workflow

Open the chat and describe what you want.

I want to understand the canvas

The visual mechanics: dragging, connecting, zooming.

I need to browse node types

The full catalog of what you can place.

I want to run and debug

Executions, mock mode, monitor.