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Quick Start

This guide walks you through creating and running your first Orvanta workflow from scratch.

Prerequisites: An Orvanta account (cloud or self-hosted) and the Orvanta CLI installed. See Installation if you haven’t done that yet.

  1. Log in via the CLI

    Terminal window
    orvanta login

    This opens your browser for authentication. Once complete, your session token is stored locally.

  2. Create a new workflow

    Terminal window
    orvanta workflows create my-first-workflow

    Orvanta creates a new workflow and prints its ID.

  3. Open the workflow editor

    Navigate to your Orvanta dashboard and open my-first-workflow in the node-based editor. You’ll see a blank canvas ready for nodes.

  4. Add a Script node

    Click Add Node → Script and select or create a simple script. For example, a Bash script that prints a greeting:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    echo "Hello from Orvanta!"

  5. Trigger a run

    Click Run in the editor, or use the CLI:

    Terminal window
    orvanta runs trigger --workflow my-first-workflow

  6. Inspect the output

    Terminal window
    orvanta runs list --workflow my-first-workflow
    orvanta runs logs <run-id>

    You should see Hello from Orvanta! in the output.

What next?

Section titled “What next?”