Start Here

Flow Steward is a self-hosted AI workflow automation platform. Compose steps, Groups, parallel lanes and loops on a visual canvas, connect external systems through extensions, and run controlled workflows with human approval steps. Core is not a software-delivery or application-code generation engine.

The application combines an operator web UI, workflow execution, project knowledge, agent/tool registries, extension runtimes, and operational controls for long-running AI-assisted work.

Choose your path

Role	Start with	Then read
Builder or normal user	Product Tour	Dashboard, Workflows, Jobs And Approvals
Workspace admin	Users, Roles, And Access	Settings And Model Providers, Events And Redrive, Audit Trail
Self-hosting operator	Deployment Checklist	Installation And Updates, Observability, Backups And Restore
Developer	Local Development	Architecture, Workflow Runtime, Quality And Testing
Extension author	Build An Extension, Agent Plugin	Extension Operator Guide, Developer Extensions
AI agent or MCP client user	Connect An AI Client With MCP	Agent Plugin, Tools And MCP, MCP Reference

Documentation map

• Start Here gives a short product overview, role paths, concepts, and first-run guidance.
• User Guide explains the product through the UI: dashboard, workspaces, jobs, workflows, agents, MCP catalogs, datasets, extensions, and lifecycle controls.
• Admin & Operations covers users, roles, providers, policy, redaction, events, audit evidence, queues, retries, and monitoring.
• Deploy & Run covers install, update, environment configuration, backups, storage, observability, rollback, and deployment troubleshooting.
• Integrations & Extensions covers incoming webhooks, external MCP catalogs, built-in MCP client setup, data connections, and extension authoring.
• Developer Platform explains how to work on the application codebase, runtime, frontend, database, tests, and internals.
• API & Reference keeps command, MCP, API, installer, workflow, environment, configuration, and upgrade details in stable lookup pages.

Current status

This site is the public documentation surface. Some deeper material still lives in the application repository under README.md, docs/, AGENTS.md, and the engineering standards pack. Publish material here when it is ready for users or external contributors.