The node reference tells you what one node does. These pages tell you how the app behaves around them: what a payload is, what order things run in, where your flows are stored, and what leaves this Mac.
Building flows
- Payloads — the data that travels between nodes, and
{{key}}interpolation. - Port Types — which outlets can connect to which inlets.
- Execution Model — what runs when, what branches, and what happens after a failure.
- Canvas Operations — selecting, wiring, moving, undoing, zooming.
- Sections — grouping part of a canvas so it reads as one step.
- The Workbench — the full-window editor for prompts, schemas, scripts and HTML.
- Triggers Panel — every armed trigger running in the background, in one list.
Your library
- Home Page — the flow library, its cards and its table.
- Folders & Favorites — grouping flows and starring the ones you reach for.
- Folder Dashboard — one folder's flows and their recent activity.
- Databases — your own rows on this Mac: making one, keeping it private, deleting it safely.
- Importing & Exporting — moving a flow to another Mac as JSON.
AI
- Set Up AI — from a first launch to a working model and your first built flow.
- Watchflows AI and Sparks — 2,000 free Sparks of hosted AI, what the email is for, and what happens at zero.
- AI Providers — pointing Watchflows at a local model, an API key, or a CLI you already pay for.
- Claude (Subscription) and ChatGPT (Subscription) — using a subscription you already have through its CLI.
- Flow Builder — describing a flow in plain English and watching it get built.
- AI Agents (MCP) — letting an outside agent read and drive Watchflows.
- Explain This Code — asking a model what a script or template is doing.
- AI Cost Tracking — what a run cost you, and where the number comes from.
Safety, sharing and privacy
- Destructive Actions — how nodes that delete or overwrite are held back until you say so.
- Integrations — connecting an outside service such as Linear.
- Watchflows Cloud — the $12 plan, owning the app, Spark packs, and public webhooks.
- What Transits Our Servers — the exact list of what leaves this Mac, when, and to whom.
- Community Flows — sharing a flow, and how submissions are moderated.
- Exploring Community Flows — browsing and installing shared flows from the Home screen.
Everything is local until you say otherwise. Flows, runs, databases and your license live on this Mac. The pages under Safety, sharing and privacy are the ones that describe the exceptions.