Workspaces

A workspace is one self-contained automation project: the flow's steps, its input variables, its snippets, and run settings like the human-delay. The tabs across the top of the window are workspaces — you can keep several projects open side by side.

Working with tabs#

• ＋ creates a new workspace.
• Double-click a tab to rename it.
• Open workspaces persist automatically between app restarts — closing Orchestra loses nothing.

Saving to files#

Workspaces save as portable .json files:

• Save writes the active workspace to disk. The first save asks where; after that, the tab is linked to its file and auto-saves about 1.5 seconds after every change — you can stop thinking about it.
• Open loads a workspace file from disk into a new tab.

The .json file contains everything — steps, variables, snippets — so it's the right unit for backups, version control, and sharing flows with other people.

The import safety scan#

Some instruments execute code: a Script step runs Node.js on your machine, a custom Transform likewise, an Evaluate runs JavaScript in the page. A workspace file someone sends you could hide something unpleasant in one of those.

So every file you Open is scanned before it loads. If it contains code-execution surfaces, Orchestra shows exactly what it found — each finding with the instrument, a preview of the code, and a severity:

• High — Script steps, custom Transform functions, detached steps with custom code: arbitrary Node.js on your machine.
• Medium — Condition or While in code mode, Run-if and conditional-value expressions: arbitrary JS expressions.
• Low — custom Try/Catch handlers (only run in exported scripts) and Evaluate (page context, not your machine).

Nothing loads until you review the list and choose Trust. If you didn't expect code in the file — or don't know the sender — cancel and look at the file first. Workspaces you created yourself load without ceremony unless they contain these surfaces from your own editing, in which case the scan is a quick reminder of what's inside.