When you describe a job to Orbira, you are writing a short brief. The better the brief, the less you need to fix afterwards. These are the habits we have seen make the biggest difference in early testing.
1. Name the trigger
Say when the workflow starts. “Every Friday at 15:00” and “when a new email arrives in the support inbox” are triggers. “Regularly” is not.
2. Name the sources
List where the information lives. “Closed tasks from the project tracker” is better than “what the team did”.
3. Say what good output looks like
Describe the shape of the result: length, tone, headings. “A summary of five bullet points, grouped by project, in plain language” gives far better results than “a summary”.
4. State the destination
Say where the result goes and who sees it. Posting to a team channel is different from sending to a customer, and Orbira treats them differently.
5. Mark the approval points
Tell Orbira which steps need a yes. A good default: anything that sends, shares or deletes.
6. Add one rule for the edge case
Most workflows have one awkward case. Write it down. “If fewer than three tasks closed, skip the post and tell me instead.”
Before and after
Before: “Keep the team updated on progress.”
After: “Every Friday at 15:00, read the tasks closed this week from the project tracker, group them by project, write a summary of at most five bullet points in plain language, show it to me, and after I approve post it to the team channel. If fewer than three tasks closed, do not post and message me instead.”
The second version has a trigger, a source, an output shape, an approval step, a destination and an edge case. It takes thirty extra seconds to write and saves the back-and-forth.
Review the plan, not just the result
When Orbira proposes steps, read them. Check which tools each step touches and whether any step writes something. This is where mistakes are cheapest to catch.
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