The Runtype UI is your main workspace for building, testing, and deploying AI Products. This guide walks you through the main areas so you can find what you need quickly.
The left sidebar organizes the platform into four groups, separated by dividers.
Overview
- Dashboard — Your home view with recent activity and quick stats
- Playground — Experiment with prompts and models in real time
Build
- Products — Group Flows and Agents together and deploy them through Surfaces
- Agents — Build agentic workflows with tool use and reasoning
- Flows — Create multi-step AI workflows with prompts, logic, and data
- Evals — Compare models and measure how your workflows perform
Substrate
- Models — Configure and manage AI models
- Integrations — Connect external services and APIs
- Tools — Create custom Tools that your Agents can call
Operate
- Records — Manage structured data that your Flows and Agents can store, retrieve, and use as context
- Schedules — Automate Flow execution on a recurring basis
- Logs — Review Flow, Agent, and step execution history
At the bottom of the sidebar you’ll also find:
- Settings — Configure API keys, billing, usage, secrets, connected apps, and team members
- Help — Access documentation, changelog, and send feedback
- User menu — Switch organizations, toggle between Light/Dark/System themes, manage your account, or log out
List views
Most pages share a consistent layout:
- Search and filters — Find items quickly by name or status
- Status badges — See whether an item is active, draft, or archived
- Quick actions — Use the more menu (⋯) to edit, duplicate, or delete
Detail pages
When you open a Flow, Product, Agent, or other item, you’ll typically see:
- Configuration panel — Edit settings, steps, and properties
- Related items — View connected Capabilities, Surfaces, or dependencies
- Action buttons — Run, test, or deploy
- Activity and logs — Review recent executions and debug details
Keyboard shortcuts
These shortcuts help you move faster around the platform.
Global
- Cmd/Ctrl + B — Toggle the sidebar
Tool editor
- Cmd/Ctrl + S — Save the current Tool
- Cmd/Ctrl + Enter — Open the test panel
Log viewer
- j / k — Navigate between entries
- g / G — Jump to top or bottom
- Enter — Expand or collapse an entry
- / — Focus the search input
- r — Refresh logs
- l — Toggle live tail mode
- c — Copy the selected entry
- ? — Show all keyboard shortcuts
Next steps