Enhancing Workflows: Synchronous AI Agent Execution and More Automation Nodes

[S-zhi]

Hi! I’ve been using Paca recently, and I’m really enjoying it. I especially like the idea of bringing project management, automation workflows, and AI agents together in one place—it has a lot of potential. The visual workflow builder is also intuitive and makes it easy to imagine many practical ways for humans and AI agents to collaborate. Thank you for building such a great open-source project!

While using it, I came up with two ideas that I’d love to discuss:

1. Synchronous AI agent execution
It would be helpful to have an option to wait for an AI agent to finish before continuing to the next node. Ideally, the agent’s output could also be passed to downstream nodes, making sequential workflows much easier to build.
2. More workflow capabilities
It would be great to have more useful nodes, such as parent-child task linking, parent-child Sprint synchronization, and wait/delay nodes. Support for simple expressions or dynamic variables in conditions and fields would also make workflows more flexible.

Are any of these capabilities currently planned? Thanks again for all your work—I’m excited to see where Paca goes next!

[pikann]

Thanks for the feedback! I really like these ideas. I'll think through the details and plan them out for upcoming updates!

[pikann]

Hi @S-zhi ,
Thanks for the amazing feedback and support!
Great news—we just shipped v0.12.0, which covers all of those requested features, including synchronous execution, variable passing, and new node capabilities
We're double downing on workflow features in upcoming releases, so please feel free to share any more ideas as you test it out!