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Ask Aria to build one

Describe a workflow in plain words, let Aria build it, review the changes, and open it on the canvas.

Lesson 5 of 5· 5 min · Level 1
You will
  • Pick a model for Aria
  • Switch a chat to Build and describe a workflow
  • Review what Aria built and ask for a change
  • Save it and open it on the canvas
Before you start

Aria is AWFlow’s assistant. In Build mode, every message you send changes a workflow: Aria picks the nodes, wires them, and fills in their settings. You’ve built three workflows by hand, so you can now check its work and fix what it misses.

Steps

Section titled “Steps”

Step 1:Open Aria and pick a model

Click Assistant in the AWFlow sidebar. The first time, Meet Aria, your private AI asks which model to use:

  • Private, on this device (Recommended): free, nothing leaves your device, downloads once in the background. It needs WebGPU; without it, the card says this browser can’t run on-device models.
  • Chrome built-in AI (in Chrome): Gemini Nano, downloaded once by Chrome. Set up walks you through it.
  • Connect a cloud provider: Add key opens AI providers. Larger cloud models build complex workflows more reliably.

Click Start chatting. You can switch models any time from the composer.

Step 1, close-up of the app: Start chatting, outlined.Step 1, close-up of the app: Start chatting, outlined.Full screen: the whole screenshot for step 1
Start chatting
The Assistant’s first-visit card, Meet Aria, your private AI: Private, on this device (greyed out here, because the capture browser has no WebGPU), Chrome built-in AI with Set up, Connect a cloud provider with Add key, and Start chatting.The Assistant’s first-visit card, Meet Aria, your private AI: Private, on this device (greyed out here, because the capture browser has no WebGPU), Chrome built-in AI with Set up, Connect a cloud provider with Add key, and Start chatting.

Check: the chat composer is ready, with your model shown in its model picker.

Step 2:Switch to Build and describe the workflow

Under the message box, switch Chat | Build to Build. Then describe what to automate, with the trigger, the steps and the result:

Message
When I press a keyboard shortcut, take the text I selected on the page,
translate it into French with an on-device model, and show the translation.

Aria works through Understand your request, Look for similar workflows, Choose an approach, Write the workflow and Check it’s valid.

Step 2, close-up of the app: Chat | Build switch, set to Build, outlined.Step 2, close-up of the app: Chat | Build switch, set to Build, outlined.Full screen: the whole screenshot for step 2
Chat | Build switch, set to Build
The Assistant page with the composer switched to Build: the message box holds “When I press a keyboard shortcut, take the text I selected on the page, translate it into French with an on-device model, and show the translation.”, with the Chat | Build switch, the context meter and the model picker under it, and suggestion cards below. The left rail lists recent chats.The Assistant page with the composer switched to Build: the message box holds “When I press a keyboard shortcut, take the text I selected on the page, translate it into French with an on-device model, and show the translation.”, with the Chat | Build switch, the context meter and the model picker under it, and suggestion cards below. The left rail lists recent chats.

Check: a Building your workflow card shows its stages, and the Workflow preview draws the nodes.

Step 3:Review what it built

Read the Workflow preview from left to right. You should recognise the pieces from earlier lessons: a Hotkey trigger, Get Selected Text, a chain with a model in its Model slot, and a display step. If a card says settings to check before it runs, click each row to see what Aria needs from you, such as a model to pick.

Check: you can name each node in the preview and say what it does.

Step 4:Ask for a change

Keep chatting in Build: Also copy the translation to the clipboard. Each change adds a version. View changes highlights what moved, and Undo reverts the latest change.

Check: the reply ends with a change chip such as “v2 · +1 step”.

Step 5:Save it and open it on the canvas

Click Save workflow, give it a name, keep Local (this browser), and click Create workflow. Then click Open in editor. From here it’s a normal workflow: test it with Test Workflow, then activate it as in lesson 4.

Check: the canvas opens with the same nodes as the preview.

Want to go further? Building workflows in chat covers improving an existing workflow, mentioning other workflows, and the canvas dock.

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