What Keel can do

Keel is GoRunner’s assistant. It builds, explains and fixes workflows with you.

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Ask in your own words

Open Keel in the sidebar, or press Keel in a workflow’s top bar. Then say what should happen, such as “When someone fills in my form, add them to my sheet”. Keel drafts the steps and checks each one.

Commands

Type / in Keel’s field for a shortcut:

/build: Build a workflow. Describe it, and Keel drafts the steps.
/fix: Fix a failure. The latest failed run, or type # to pick one.
/explain: Explain a workflow, step by step, with anything fragile called out.
/import: Import from n8n / Activepieces. Opens the file picker. Only on Keel’s own page, not in a workflow’s Keel panel.
/finish: Finish an imported workflow. Fills in what the import couldn’t.
/publish: Publish when proven. Proposes it once it checks out.

In Keel’s field

@: A workflow of this workspace. In a workflow, a step of it.
#: A recent run, of this workflow or of all.
Model: Default model, your organization’s pick, or one model and how hard it thinks, for this conversation. Not in the Embed.
Enter: Send. ShiftEnter adds a line, and Esc stops Keel’s reply.

Cards: you decide

Keel shows each change as a card. Press Apply to make it, or Run test, Publish or Unpublish when that’s the card’s job. Apply all applies every draft change in a reply. A test or a publish card keeps its own key.

Applying saves a draft. Nothing runs until you publish, and Undo puts the draft back as it was.

How much Keel does on its own

Choose a level in Keel’s field. Each says what Keel may do:

Ask: Every change is a card you apply.
Draft: Draft edits apply when Keel’s reply ends. Production stays yours.
Operate: Keel publishes and runs without asking. After reading outside data, it asks before it publishes. Deletes stay yours.
Full: Everything your role allows, when you ask for it.

A new conversation starts at Ask. You can go no higher than your organization’s limit and your role allow. Owners and admins set that limit in Settings › Organization › Keel.

Your conversations

Conversations: Find one with Ctrl/, or start one with CtrlShiftO.
Delete conversation: Removes it and its cards. The workflows it made stay, but you lose Undo on its changes.
What Keel did: On Keel’s page: what Keel changed without a click in the last 7 days, and what Maintenance mode did.

Each act is in the audit log.

How does Keel check a draft?

Each card is checked the way Publish checks a workflow.

Keel then tries the wiring on each step’s sample data. It flags a value that would arrive empty, a loop over something that isn’t a list, or a {{$vars.X}} no variable declares. Where it can’t know, such as after a Code step, it says nothing.

When no app exists for a service, Keel says so and uses HTTP Request.

When Keel is asleep

Keel needs an AI provider. Until an owner or admin adds one, Keel says Keel is asleep. See Set up Keel.

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