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Understanding Flows in Promptitude

Discover how Flows connect your prompts and tools into powerful automated sequences that deliver refined AI results in just a few steps.

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Written by Promptitude Team
Updated over a week ago

Flows in Promptitude are sequences of connected steps that automate repetitive tasks by executing one action after another in a predefined order. Think of flows as assembly lines for your AI tasks—each station (or step) performs a specific function, passing the results to the next station until you get your final, refined output.

Each step in a Flow can be:

  • A prompt you've previously created in your Promptitude account

  • An integration with an external tool

  • A conditional step that determines what happens next ➔ [soon]

With flows, you can link together multiple prompts and tools from your Promptitude account to create sophisticated AI workflows without writing a single line of code.

Why Use Flows?

  • Save time by automating repetitive sequences of prompts

  • Improve consistency in your AI-generated outputs

  • Create more sophisticated AI systems without coding knowledge

  • Refine and curate results through multiple processing stages

  • Reduce manual errors that can occur when handling multiple prompts separately

⁉️ Troubleshooting Your Flows

If your Flow isn't working as expected:

  • Check that each individual prompt works correctly on its own

  • Verify that the output format of each step matches the expected input format of the next step

  • Look for any conditional logic that might be directing your Flow down unexpected paths

  • Test with various inputs to ensure your Flow handles different scenarios appropriately

✅ Flow usage

  • Step-by-step refinement: Curate your content in detail by processing it through multiple stages

  • Versatile integration: Include any message type, even those using tools internally or leveraging context and web search

  • Comprehensive debugging: Track results at each step with detailed logs, including important metrics like cost and duration

  • Flexible output formats: Configure your results as plain text and formatted text. Structured JSON data ➔ [soon]

  • User-friendly forms: Deploy your flows as simple forms that non-experts can easily use ➔ [soon]

  • Sharing capabilities: Share your flow forms through public pages or embed them on any website ➔ [soon]

  • API access: Integrate your flows into other systems through the Promptitude API ➔ [soon]

🔔 Flow Costs and Limitations

When working with flows, keep these important points in mind:

Cost Structure

  • Flows themselves don't have individual costs

  • Each step in a flow (particularly prompt-based steps) accumulates token costs

  • The total cost of a flow is the sum of all step costs

  • Costs are tracked and displayed in the detailed logs

Model Independence

  • They don't have a specific AI provider or model associated with them

  • The AI models used depend on the individual prompts within each step

  • You can mix and match different models across your flow steps

Plan Limitations

  • The number of flows you can create depends on your Promptitude plan

  • Higher-tier plans typically allow for more flows and more complex workflows

🎯 Future Developments

While flows are currently linear in the Beta phase, Promptitude plans to expand this functionality in the future.

You can look forward to:

  • More complex branching logic

  • Conditional execution paths

  • Parallel processing capabilities

  • Additional integration options

With Flows, you're now equipped to create sophisticated AI systems that deliver refined, curated results without the need for complex programming.

Start building your first Flow today and discover a new level of automation in your Promptitude experience.

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