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Hover, select or focus a step to reveal its controls. Persistent notices and running progress remain beside the title. Double-click a step, or use Open expanded view, for its full workbench.

Run: use the visible inputs

Run starts the selected step with the current visible inputs, parameters and content versions. Connected drafts are saved before inputs are frozen. Upstream outputs do not need to be confirmed first, and an out-of-date source is a diagnostic, not an extra approval gate.

Missing required material, failed saving or uploading, pinned outputs, conflicting revisions or an incompatible active run can prevent execution. IceFold names the problem and the recovery action; it does not silently substitute an older output.

Generation may spend credits. Need review determines what happens after completion: when enabled, the result waits for Confirm; otherwise it is published automatically and eligible downstream steps may continue. Manual run prevents automatic execution of that step.

Edits during a run apply to your next run. The active run keeps its frozen inputs, and its result follows the review setting in effect at completion. Later edits can mark it Outdated; they do not cancel it or request a replacement run.

Confirm: publish the visible result

Confirm publishes the visible result locally and allows eligible downstream steps to continue, which may spend credits. It does not regenerate this step or confirm upstream steps. Unconfirmed upstream outputs or newer inputs do not by themselves require another approval, rerun or pin.

You can explicitly keep and publish a visible older result. Confirming an unchanged upstream output does not repeat downstream work that already consumed it. Use the separate send-again action in the more menu when you intend another downstream pass. A terminal result with no downstream consumers needs no publication action.

Some workbenches use task-specific labels: Generate Text offers Generate text / Regenerate and Use and continue. These use the same Run and Confirm rules.

Edits, history and Pin

Output edits save automatically. Edited records their origin; it does not block automation. Before an ordinary rerun replaces visible edits, IceFold archives them in output history. If history cannot be saved, replacement stops. No overwrite approval is required.

Pin output protects an output from normal execution, output editing and upstream resets. It can apply to a content version. Confirm can still publish the pinned result. Unpinning does not automatically run it. Lock layout only prevents accidental dragging and resizing.

Status beside the title

Grey or blue dots: waiting or ready for input.
Purple running indicator: work in progress; open details for progress and Stop.
Yellow warning triangle: needs review.
Red warning triangle: failed; open details for the reason and recovery actions.
Green dot: completed, with no pending downstream publication.
Outdated or Edited: result information, separate from execution status. Narrow headers use history or pencil icons.

Hover or focus for a summary; click, tap or activate with the keyboard to keep details open. Frame preferences do not hide status. Multi-version steps summarize shared notices in the header and identify version differences beside the affected versions.

Other controls

Stop stops the active run; it is not an undo of the previous output.
Rerun this content version changes only the chosen version. Tab browsing does not change execution scope; use version display options to compare outputs.
Download saves the actual output. Structured text uses its declared format, such as .srt; other text defaults to .md.
Next steps offers relevant connected editing or generation steps for the output medium.
Rename step changes its display name from Quick Properties, the expanded view or the context menu.
Enter subflow opens the graph inside a Subflow.

Press ? on the canvas for keyboard shortcuts, gestures and status help.