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Build it with your agent, keep it in Kody.
Describe the job, let your agent build the code, and keep the workflow ready for next time. Your connected accounts, saved progress, and schedule stay with it.
Find your approachWhat are you building?
- Connected accounts
- Reviewed code
- Stored progress
- Agent or schedule
Try the job as a Kody package.
Choose this when you want to describe work to your agent, keep the working code, and call it again from another connected agent.
Check the connections, code, runtime limits, and what you need to save between runs.
Compare the tradeoffs.
| Approach | How it works | Why choose Kody |
|---|---|---|
| Kody | Your agent builds reusable packages with connected accounts, memory, and schedules | Keep the code and context available across your connected agents |
| n8n | Visual workflows with code and AI steps | Describe changes to your agent and keep the implementation in package code, rather than a workflow canvas |
| Windmill | Scripts and workflows for internal tools | Keep personal context, connected accounts, and agent-built tools together in one account |
| Pipedream Workflows | Closed to new signups; shutdown scheduled for March 31, 2027 | Build new workflows as packages you can call from an agent or run on a schedule |
Evaluating Pipedream? Workflows is closed to new signups and is scheduled to shut down March 31, 2027. Connect is unaffected. Read the shutdown notice.
Build your release digest in Kody.
Collect GitHub releases, group them by project, and put together a Slack digest with links.
Start with a preview, then ask your agent to add a repository or change the channel. Save the working version as a package and give it a schedule.
- Read from
- Selected GitHub repositories
- Return first
- A preview, without posting
- Remember
- Releases already handled
- Enable last
- The recurring schedule
Check the first result.
Run manually without posting. Verify the repositories, time window, and source links.
Run it again.
Can it recognize releases already handled? Decide what happens to that progress when a Slack post fails.
Change the request.
Exclude prereleases, add a repository, and change the destination. Review what needs editing.
Break a connection.
Test an expired connection before enabling the schedule. Check how much work it takes to recover, too.
Keep the useful work.
In Kody, your agent can explore a task, save the working code as a package, and call that package from another connected agent. Your connected accounts provide access to the services it needs, and the package keeps the code and any scheduled jobs together.
So when a conversation produces something useful, you can keep it, review the code, and run it again without digging through the chat.
Keep improving the same workflow.
Need another source or a different report format? Ask your agent to update the package. The code stays available for you to review, and your other connected agents can use the updated workflow.
A scheduled package runs the code you saved. It only needs a model when that code calls one, so a routine report can fetch and format its data without asking AI to rebuild the process each time.
Try the release digest in Kody.
Connect your agent, then give it this brief. Review the setup and permissions before running it.
Connect your agent Check pricing and limitsBuild a release-digest package in Kody for repositories I choose. Connect GitHub and Slack as needed. First return a preview with source links, without posting. Add stored progress and explain what happens if posting fails. Keep its schedule disabled until I approve a successful manual run.