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Getting started · Step 5

Run, watch, and debug your routine

Run your routine with a real input, follow each step and agent as it works, inspect the result, then change one instruction and run it again to compare.

Product guide · Run and debug

Make a test run

Run the routine once with a small, real input. The point of the first run is not the result; it is to check that the pipeline works end to end and is not more complex than it needs to be. Run it from the Routines panel with Run, or ask the agent to run it for you.

Select a published routine and press Run. The routine asks for its topic in the run's thread.

Watch the work

Open the Routines panel. Routines that are in progress appear under Running at the top of the list, with their current stage. Select the running routine to open its graph and check its execution: each step lights up as it starts, and the status shows whether the routine is running, retrying, waiting for input, or paused.

Running routines sit at the top of the list. Expand one to see its run and the step it is on.

Click any step in the graph and choose Focus thread to open the conversation of the agent working on it. From there you can check the agent's work as it happens and follow along with what it reads, decides, and writes. When the agent is working on the web, click into the browser to see exactly what it is looking at and doing on the internet.

A run in progress: the running step and its sub-routine light up; select a step and choose Focus thread to open its agent's conversation.

Notice which agent is working, what step is underway, and whether Toone is waiting for input or approval. If it is waiting on you, the thread is where you answer.

When a step fails

A failed step shows an issue card in the run's thread: what went wrong and what Toone can do about it. With the default Suggest setting, Toone proposes a fix and waits; confirm it and the run continues from that step, keeping everything earlier steps produced. You can also tell the agent in the thread what to change, choose Retry as is, or cancel the run.

A failed step's issue card: Toone proposes a fix and waits for you to confirm it, retry the step as is, or cancel the run.

Once you trust a routine, you can let Toone apply fixes itself: open the routine's inspector and change Auto-fix. Routines explains each mode and when Toone still stops for you.

Inspect the result

When the run finishes, open the produced brief and compare it with the routine’s expected sections. This is easier when each step states what it must deliver, as in Launch Content Production on Explore. Look for missing evidence, unclear assumptions, or a result saved in the wrong place. The run stays in the routine's execution history, so you can come back to it later and compare it with the next one.

Every run stays in the routine's execution history. Expand one to see how each step ended.

Improve and repeat

Change one instruction based on what you observed, then run the same routine again. Keeping the change small makes the effect understandable. If you would rather not edit alone, open the routine and ask an agent to make the change; it edits the routine while you watch, just as it did while drafting.

Select a step to see what it does, consumes and produces. Discuss with agent opens a chat about that step.

You completed the operating loop

You now have a project, an agent, a repeatable routine, an observable run, and a durable output. Continue with Core concepts or browse Features. To add routines other people have built, import one from Explore; to publish yours, share it on Explore.

Define agents, shape a routine with them, run and observe it, and keep the result for the next run.