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title: "Workflows"
description: "Build, debug, save, and extend repeatable recipes."
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# Workflows

A recipe is an ordered, portable description of a transformation. Start with the smallest chain that proves your hypothesis, inspect its intermediate state, then add complexity deliberately.

## Core habits

- Name the expected input and output before adding operations.
- Verify one representation boundary at a time: text, bytes, compression, encryption, or structure.
- Use breakpoints and disabled steps to compare alternatives.
- Save a clean recipe separately from any sensitive sample input.

Source: https://help.serialize.dev/workflows/index.mdx