Dashboard Workflows

Rules for authoring step content (subject, body, editorType, headers, body, conditions) on workflows that live in the Novu Dashboard — whether you're editing them by hand or via the Novu MCP.

Authoring in code with @novu/framework? Skip this skill — the Framework SDK encodes these constraints in its types and helpers.

Still need to decide what the workflow should look like (channels, severity, critical, digest, templates)? Start with design-workflow/, then come back here to fill in the step content.

When to use this skill

Use it whenever you write or edit the controls of a Dashboard / MCP step:

• "Set the email subject and body for this step"
• "Update the in-app notification copy"
• "Add headers to this HTTP Request step"
• "Change the digest window to 1 hour"
• "Skip this step when the subscriber is offline" (step condition)
• Any Novu MCP tool call that writes step content (create_workflow, update_workflow_step, etc.)