Getting Started

Understanding the Runtype UI

Use the Runtype UI to build, test, and deploy AI Products. Use this page to locate navigation, list views, detail pages, and keyboard shortcuts.

The sidebar organizes the platform into five groups. Each group has its own heading.

The Overview group includes:

  • Dashboard: Review recent activity and statistics, and open the main product areas.
  • Playground: Test prompts, models, and settings.

The Build group includes:

  • Products: Group Flows and Agents as Capabilities, then expose them through Surfaces.
    • Agents: Build workflows in which a model selects tools and sequences calls.
    • Flows: Create repeatable, multi-step workflows with prompts, logic, and data.
    • Skills: Create loadable context bundles for Agents.

The Improve group includes:

  • Evals: Compare model and prompt configurations with the same test inputs.
  • Logs: Review execution history.

The Substrate group includes:

  • Tools: Create tools that your Agents and Flows can call.

The Operate group includes:

  • Records: Store, retrieve, and use structured data as context for your Flows and Agents.
  • Schedules: Automate Flow execution on a recurring basis.

The sidebar footer includes these controls:

  • Settings: Open settings for Models, API keys, Connected apps, Secrets, Billing, Usage, Integrations, and Dashboard preferences. In an organization, you can also open Team settings.
  • Help: Open Documentation, What’s new, or Send feedback.
  • User menu: Switch organizations, choose Light, Dark, or System, open Account, or Log out.

Pages without a sidebar row

Some pages have no sidebar row. You open each one from the place where you need it:

  • Models: Click Settings in the sidebar footer. Settings opens on Models. You can also select Manage models in a model picker.
  • Integrations: Click Settings > Integrations.
  • Templates: Click Templates on the Products page, or select Start from a template in an empty Products, Flows, or Agents list. For more information, see Creating a product.

Each of these pages keeps its own URL, and the command palette lists all three in its Navigate group.

List views

Most list pages share these controls:

  • View picker: Switch among the views available for the page.
  • Search: Find items by text.
  • Filter: Add structured filters when the page supports them.
  • Row actions: Edit, duplicate, run, or delete items when those actions apply.

List tables use resource-specific columns. Status indicators can show states such as Active, Idle, Paused, Draft, and Failed.

Detail pages

When you open a Flow, Agent, Product, or other resource, the available panels and actions depend on that resource. Common areas include:

  • Configuration: Edit settings, steps, and properties.
  • Related items: View connected Capabilities, Surfaces, Tools, and dependencies.
  • Actions: Run, test, publish, or deploy the resource.
  • Activity and logs: Review executions and debug information.

Keyboard shortcuts

The dashboard supports these global shortcuts:

  • Cmd/Ctrl + K: Open the command palette.
  • Cmd/Ctrl + B: Toggle the sidebar.
  • Cmd/Ctrl + ,: Open settings over the page you are on.

The Tool editor supports these shortcuts:

  • Cmd/Ctrl + S: Save the Tool.
  • Cmd/Ctrl + Enter: Open the test panel.

The Logs page supports these shortcuts:

  • j and k: Move the selected log entry down or up.
  • g and G: Move to the first or last log entry.
  • Enter: Open the selected log entry.
  • /: Focus the search field.
  • r: Refresh logs.
  • l: Toggle live tail mode.
  • c: Copy the selected entry.
  • ?: Open the keyboard shortcut list.

Next steps

Continue with one of these pages: