WEBVTT 00:01.960 --> 00:06.480 In this lecture, we're going to take a look at another interesting functionality that windsurf has 00:06.720 --> 00:08.960 and that is called workflows. 00:08.960 --> 00:13.200 You can easily find workflows right here in the windsurf settings. 00:13.600 --> 00:18.120 So clicking on the settings will reveal here memory and rules. 00:18.480 --> 00:22.640 And I click here on manage I'm going to find here workflows. 00:23.320 --> 00:24.920 So what is workflow. 00:24.960 --> 00:30.880 You can think of these workflows like a bookmark for a set of actions that you want to take. 00:31.120 --> 00:36.480 Like for example deploying pretty much whenever you find yourself writing the same prompt and going 00:36.480 --> 00:41.400 over a series of steps over and over, you should consider creating a workflow instead. 00:41.400 --> 00:43.360 So let's take a look at a very simple example. 00:43.360 --> 00:48.720 To create a workflow, I'm going to click here on workflow and this is going to create a new file. 00:48.720 --> 00:51.760 I'm going to name the workflow Experimental Change. 00:53.240 --> 00:54.320 Press enter. 00:54.320 --> 00:58.040 And this is going to be created here in the workflows directory. 00:58.400 --> 01:02.280 And we can provide a description and also the content. 01:02.600 --> 01:07.480 So for the description I'm just going to give the experimental change name. 01:08.080 --> 01:13.860 And let's say that We want to use a workflow when we want to try some experiments. 01:14.140 --> 01:16.780 So for each experiment, we want to create a new git branch. 01:17.260 --> 01:19.740 We want to implement the changes that are requested. 01:19.780 --> 01:22.380 And also we want to commit those changes to GitHub. 01:22.620 --> 01:28.260 Maybe this is not the best workflow, but I just wanted to show you a relatively realistic example. 01:28.260 --> 01:30.820 So I'm going to go ahead and save these changes. 01:31.180 --> 01:34.700 And this is the interesting part because we need a way to call this workflow. 01:35.300 --> 01:39.700 And this is actually done directly from the prompt right here below. 01:40.180 --> 01:42.580 So I'm going to write here a forward slash. 01:42.580 --> 01:47.180 And you're already going to see here experimental change appearing so I can select it. 01:47.860 --> 01:52.540 Or as an alternative just in case you're wondering what is this thing here. 01:53.100 --> 01:56.100 This is also a way to trigger this. 01:56.340 --> 01:59.260 So you either press that button or use a forward slash. 01:59.740 --> 02:03.460 And now we are going to implement a small change. 02:03.460 --> 02:07.900 So we're going to change the title from my board to my cool board. 02:08.220 --> 02:10.180 And let's see exactly what is happening. 02:11.980 --> 02:15.180 So the first step a branch has been created. 02:16.020 --> 02:17.900 And there are a few commands that we need to run. 02:18.820 --> 02:22.520 The file header has been updated so we can take a look here at the diff. 02:22.560 --> 02:25.760 I'm going to see that the name has been changed. 02:25.800 --> 02:27.880 Unfortunately this is right here in the middle. 02:28.840 --> 02:30.840 And there are a few commands that we need to run. 02:30.840 --> 02:33.240 So we're going to add the changes we're going to commit. 02:34.400 --> 02:36.720 And we're going to also push this change. 02:37.800 --> 02:42.760 Of course we can decide to automate all the git commands so that we don't have to do this manually. 02:43.240 --> 02:45.520 But we're going to get here the information. 02:45.520 --> 02:47.560 This workflow has been done. 02:47.960 --> 02:49.680 So branch has been created. 02:50.080 --> 02:52.360 It has been fetched and checked out locally. 02:53.080 --> 02:54.680 The header has been changed. 02:55.120 --> 02:57.360 This change has been committed and pushed. 02:57.360 --> 03:00.520 And one thing we can take a look at GitHub and see this change. 03:00.800 --> 03:03.080 But this was the main idea of these workflows. 03:03.080 --> 03:06.920 So again whenever you find yourself that you're going through a lot of steps and you're doing this all 03:06.920 --> 03:08.440 the time, it's quite convenient. 03:08.440 --> 03:09.120 You press forward. 03:09.120 --> 03:10.920 Slash can already start that change. 03:11.200 --> 03:11.680 Theoretically. 03:11.680 --> 03:13.200 You don't even need a prompt after that. 03:13.200 --> 03:18.280 So you can store everything right there can be useful if you just want to. 03:18.440 --> 03:24.200 Let's say, for example, have a quick way of committing changes and pushing them or many other use 03:24.200 --> 03:24.720 cases. 03:25.040 --> 03:27.600 And I'm sure you're going to use this feature a lot.