The workspace
Esca Automations adds an automation area to the Brightspot CMS left navigation. The area groups every page you use to build, run, and manage automations, and this page is the map: what each one is for, with a page of its own for the detail.
The pages
The pages appear in the navigation in this order.
| Page | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | The landing page for the area. Metric cards and charts summarize recent automation activity and execution health over a period you choose. See Monitoring and history. |
| Build | Describe the automation you want in plain language and let Esca draft the flow, instead of starting from an empty canvas. See Building automations. |
| Automations | The list of every automation, where you create, open, rename, enable, disable, run, archive, import, and export them. Opening one launches the flow editor. A + beside the item, shown on hover or focus, opens a blank automation the same way the list page's + New Automation does. See Building automations and Monitoring and history. |
| Templates | The catalog of built-in starter flows, browsed by kind—Examples, Recipes, and Workflows. Use one as the starting point for a new automation, or splice a recipe into an automation you are already building. See Starting from a template. |
| Executions | Every run of every automation in one place, with each run's steps, logs, and output a click away. See Monitoring and history. |
| Approvals | A cross-automation inbox of every step currently waiting on a person to answer, so you don't have to know which automation paused to find and respond to it. See Human in the loop. |
| Connections | The saved, authenticated links to external systems that triggers and actions reuse, including your own AI provider accounts. See Connections. |
| Agents | The catalog of reusable agents an AI step runs as. An agent supplies the model, the standing instructions, and the tools; the step supplies the task. See AI agents and models. |
| Variables | The variables and secrets shared across your automations. A secret's value is encrypted and redacted from run logs. See Variables and secrets. |
| Content Types | The structured content types your automations use—for example, the shape of a trigger's payload or of an AI step's structured output. Each type is defined here once and then picked by name on a node. |
| Savings Rates | The hourly rates used to turn the manual work an automation saved into a dollar figure. You start from a shared catalog of rates and override only the ones you need. |
| Settings | The automation settings that apply everywhere, including your default AI model and the outbound HTTP policy for dry runs. See Publishing and run modes and AI agents and models. |
| Members | Who is in the workspace and what role each person holds. Owners invite people, change roles, and archive or reinstate members. |
The workspace bar
A row at the top of the navigation rail names the workspace you are in. Click it to switch to another workspace you belong to; if you belong to only one, the row names it without a control to switch. Below 768px, the switcher stays in the CMS header instead of moving into the rail.
The same row carries a search control, opening the CMS's search dialog scoped to your workspace, and, for a Builder, Admin, or Owner, a + control that opens the menu for creating a new asset of any type.
Where to start
If you have not built an automation yet, Getting started walks you through one end to end using only the Automations page and the flow editor.