Workflows
Durable, branching, human-in-the-loop pipelines that combine LLMs, tools and code.
29 posts
Introducing Dynamic Workflows for Mastra
Add, update, and remove workflows from a running Mastra server — without touching the code.
Jul 20, 2026ArticleWorkflow orchestration: a complete guide
Learn what workflow orchestration is, how it compares to automation, common patterns like DAGs and state machines, and how to implement it for AI agents.
Jul 9, 2026BlogIntroducing Custom Signal Providers for Mastra Agents
Send notification signals to your agents from any external source.
Jul 8, 2026BlogIntroducing Schedules for Mastra Agents and Workflows
A unified API for managing automated recurring tasks
Jul 1, 2026BlogIntroducing Webhook Signals for Mastra Agents
Your agents can now react to webhook events from GitHub, Slack, Stripe, or your own API.
Jun 30, 2026BlogWhat are durable AI agents? How state persistence and checkpoints survive a restart
A long-running agent is a durable record that short-lived processes take turns with. This walks through why a context window is not a persistence layer, the three granularities of persistence, how Mastra checkpoints a run to JSON and resumes it on a fresh machine, why a worker can't judge its own work, and the two kinds of state a durable agent has to keep.
Jun 26, 2026BlogIntroducing Durable Agents
Survive client disconnects, browser refreshes, or network blips with cacheable resumable streams.
Jun 25, 2026BlogPublish and Subscribe with Mastra's Built-In Event System
Send or receive events with Redis Streams and Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
Jun 24, 2026BlogYour Mastra Agent Now Has an Inbox With Priority Notifications
Connect external sources like GitHub and Slack and trigger them to wake up your agent.
Jun 22, 2026ArticleAgentic workflows: how they work, key components, and how to build them
Learn how agentic workflows work, what components you need, and how to build one step by step, including observability, testing, and real-world use cases.
Jun 22, 2026ArticleAI agent workflows: a complete guide for developers
Learn how AI agent workflows work, common patterns like routing and parallelization, and how to build, evaluate, and monitor agentic workflows in production.
Jun 22, 2026ArticleAI workflow automation: how to build reliable pipelines that handle complexity at scale
Build AI workflow automation that handles complexity at scale, with branching, conditions, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints that adapt where rules can't.
Jun 22, 2026ArticleAI workflows: what they are, how they work, and how to build them
AI workflows combine LLMs, tools, and orchestration logic to automate complex tasks. Learn key components, use cases, and how to monitor them.
Jun 3, 2026BlogAnnouncing Agent Signals
A context engineering primitive for interacting with running agents.
May 27, 2026BlogMastra Workflows, Enhanced
Mastra's new Temporal integration brings durable execution, advanced retries, and richer observability to your workflows.
May 12, 2026BlogIntroducing Temporal Support for Mastra Workflows
Your workflows can now run on Temporal with durable, fault-tolerant execution.
May 7, 2026Blog9 Best AI Workflow Automation Tools in 2026
Compare the best AI workflow automation tools in 2026, from developer-native frameworks like Mastra to no-code platforms like Gumloop, and more.
May 7, 2026BlogIntroducing Background Tasks for Mastra Agents
Your agents can now stream progress feedback during long-running tool calls.
Feb 4, 2026BlogHuman-in-the-Loop: Where to Put Approval in Agents and Workflows
Agents can pause before tool calls. Workflows can suspend at steps. But when they're working together, where's the right place for a human-in-the-loop?
Jan 28, 2026BlogHuman-in-the-Loop: When to Use Agent Approval
When should an agent ask for permission? How to think about approval, suspension, and the trust spectrum in your agent design.
Jan 1, 2026BlogBuilding a signal provider
Build a polling signal provider that watches an external service and pushes notifications into an agent thread.
Oct 28, 2025BlogHITL: Ask Before Acting
Learn how to use HITL (Human-in-the-Loop) to safely build tools that require human approval.
Oct 22, 2025BlogYou can suspend/resume workflows in playground
Mastra workflows now support suspend and resume in Playground. You can also use the new resumeStream API to close streams on suspend and resume them later.
Oct 22, 2025BlogWorkflow State: Share Data Across Steps
Workflow state lets you share values across steps without threading them through every `inputSchema` and `outputSchema`.
Jun 6, 2025BlogBuilding an AI Research Assistant with vNext Workflows
A deep dive into building MastraManus, an AI research assistant powered by Mastra's vNext workflows.
Apr 29, 2025BlogIntroducing vNext Workflows: the next generation of Mastra Workflows
vNext brings stronger control flow, better type safety, and multi-engine support.
Feb 28, 2025BlogFrom Whiteboard to Excalidraw: Building a Multi-Agent Workflow
How we built a whiteboard image to Excalidraw converter using Mastra's multi-agent workflows, and what we learned about breaking down complex AI tasks into deterministic steps with validation loops.
Jan 30, 2025BlogBaby steps towards AI Ops
How do we apply the lessons learned from the last decade of DevOps to manage, deploy, and operate AI agents at scale?
Jan 13, 2025BlogBuilding workflows with Mastra
A few patterns for building workflows
