You Can Automate AI Tasks With a Markdown File. Here's Why I Built a Visual Tool Anyway.

If you use Claude Code, you can already create an agent file, write some instructions in markdown, and run a multi-step workflow from your terminal. It works. It's simple. And for a lot of developers, that's enough. So why did I spend months building a desktop app that does the same thing with a drag-and-drop canvas? Because I watched my teammates stare at a wall of terminal output with no idea what step just failed, which ones already finished, or how much the whole thing cost. And I realized that the people who benefit most from AI automation are often the ones least comfortable setting it up. The Markdown Way Works. Until It Doesn't. Here's what running an agent from a markdown file looks like: claude --agent agents/my-workflow.md Simple. Clean. And then: Step 4 of 8 fails. You start over from the beginning. You have no idea how much that run just cost until your invoice arrives. Your teammate asks "what does this workflow do?" and you tell them to read a markdown file. You want to