Chain recipes into a multi-step workflow

CRAFT Tutorials · Advanced

Once you have a few recipes you rely on, you can bundle them into a single named workflow — so a sequence you’d normally trigger one at a time runs end-to-end from one command. You pick the recipes and the order; Claude assembles the workflow.

What a workflow is

A workflow is a recipe made of other recipes. Instead of running three steps one after another, you run the workflow once and it carries out each recipe in the order you chose. It’s the natural next move after you’ve built a recipe or two.

  • One command, several steps. A routine that used to take a handful of requests becomes a single ask.
  • Mix and match. A workflow can combine your own recipes and CRAFT’s built-in ones.
  • Same order, every time. The steps always run in the sequence you set.

Step 1 — Decide the steps and the order

Think through the routine as a sequence. For example, an end-of-week wrap-up might be: build the sales summary, tidy the project files, then save a handoff. If you’re not sure what recipes you have to draw on, ask Claude to list them first:

›List the recipes I can use in a workflow.

Step 2 — Ask Claude to build the workflow

Name it and list the recipes in order:

›Make a workflow called “Friday wrap-up” that runs my “weekly sales summary,” then “tidy downloads,” then saves a handoff.

Claude composes a single workflow from those recipes, checks that each one it references actually exists in your library, and saves it with its own trigger phrase.

✓ You’ll know it worked when Claude confirms the workflow is saved and shows you the steps it will run, in order.

Step 3 — Run the whole thing at once

Now the entire routine is one command:

›Run my “Friday wrap-up” workflow.

✓ You’ll know it worked when Claude runs each recipe in turn and reports what it did at each step.

Good to know: a workflow is just another recipe, so it lives in your project with the rest of your work and travels with it. You can change the line-up any time — ask Claude to add, remove, or reorder a step.

Troubleshooting

  • A step refers to a recipe you don’t have yet — Claude will point that out when building the workflow. Create the missing recipe first (see Turn a repeated task into your own recipe), then add it.
  • You want to change the order — ask Claude to reorder the steps; you don’t rebuild it from scratch.
  • One step needs details each run — tell Claude what should be asked for when the workflow runs, and it’ll prompt you at that step.

That’s a workflow: several recipes, one command, always in the order you set. A good next step: Organize and manage your recipe library — keep your growing collection tidy.

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