Quickstart
Build and run your first Zelaxy workflow in five minutes — a chat-triggered AI agent that answers questions.
You'll build a working AI agent that answers questions from a chat message. Five blocks, five minutes.
Create a workflow
From your workspace, open the Hub and create a new workflow. You land on the visual canvas with a Starter block already placed — every workflow begins there.
Set the trigger
Select the Starter block and choose the Chat trigger. Now the workflow runs whenever a chat message comes in, and that message is available downstream as {{starter.input}}.
Add an Agent
Drag an Agent block onto the canvas and draw a connection from Starter to it. Pick a model (any provider — see AI Models) and set the user message to:
{{starter.input}}Optionally add a system prompt like "You are a helpful assistant. Answer concisely."
Return the answer
Add a Response block, connect the Agent to it, and set its value to {{agent.content}}. This is what the user sees.
Run it
Hit Run, type a question into the chat panel, and watch the agent respond. You just shipped an AI workflow.
What just happened
Data flowed between blocks through {{references}} — the single most important idea in Zelaxy. Read Core Concepts to understand references, connections, and outputs in depth.