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Kept results

Keep a step's result and reuse it in your editor runs instead of running the step again — handy for slow, paid or one-off steps while you build.

While you build, you run the same workflow many times. A step that is slow, costs money (an AI call), or does something you don’t want to repeat (send an email) doesn’t have to run every time: keep its result, and your runs from the editor reuse it.

Keep a result

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  1. Run the step once (Run step, or run the workflow).
  2. In the step’s Output, press Keep this result. You can also use Keep this result in the step’s menu or its right-click menu on the canvas.
  3. The step gets a violet Kept result badge, and its settings show a banner.
The settings of the SHA-256 step after a run: its Output shows the item it produced, with Keep this result and Copy under it. The settings of the SHA-256 step after a run: its Output shows the item it produced, with Keep this result and Copy under it.

Numbered areas in the screenshot: 1. Keep this result.

From now on, runs you start in the editor (Run, Run step, Run from here) don’t run that step: they hand on its kept result and route on as after a real run. The run log says Used the kept result (24 items).

Change or stop keeping

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The settings of the SHA-256 step with its result kept: a violet Kept result banner says editor runs use this result instead of running the step, with Stop keeping and Edit result, above the kept output. The settings of the SHA-256 step with its result kept: a violet Kept result banner says editor runs use this result instead of running the step, with Stop keeping and Edit result, above the kept output.

Numbered areas in the screenshot: 1. The Kept result banner; 2. Edit result; 3. Stop keeping.
  • Edit result opens the kept result as JSON; it is checked when you save.
  • Stop keeping goes back to running the step.
  • Run step on a kept step asks Replace the kept result?: Run and replace runs it and keeps the new result.

A kept result can be up to 1 MB per step. A larger output says Too large to keep: 3.4 MB of 1 MB.

Ready to run reminds you, for example 1 step uses a kept result.

Only in the editor, only on this device

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  • Kept results are used only by runs you start in the editor. Scheduled, triggered and background runs, and runs of a workflow called by another, always run every step.
  • They are stored on this device, next to the workflow, never in the workflow itself. They are deleted with the workflow, and for a cloud workflow when you sign out.
  • They are never shared: publishing, exporting a .awf file and copying steps leave them out.
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