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Watching a run finish

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Every workflow run leaves a visible trail: the objective it started with, the steps it actually took, the sources it drew on at each step, and the output it produced at the end. None of that trail is hidden after the fact for the sake of a cleaner-looking result. If a step pulled from the knowledge base, the base entry is named. If a step reached the open web because nothing internal covered it, that reach is shown too.

evidence

evidence

Objective

stated up front

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Output,

checked against the objective

source

source

Fig. 4.1 — A workflow is a chain of steps with named evidence, checked at the end against the objective it started with — not a single unaccountable leap from question to answer.

Screenshot — the source list behind a finished run, knowledge-base entries and web pages listed and numbered separately, so every claim in the output can be traced back to one of them.

For a non-technical reader, the honest summary is this: a workflow is closer to watching someone do the research out loud than to receiving a finished memo with no visible working. You can disagree with a step, catch a source that does not hold up, or simply confirm that the reasoning matches how you would have approached the same job yourself — all before deciding whether to trust what came out the other end.