mintyswirljoy

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May 23, 2026

Oh yeah, great code process management tool!!

I love this thing, spinning it up with full API control.. Let me know if you have a git as I can make some great contributions and requests to mature the platform.

For instance things I had to figure out

THE NEXTSTEP API QUIRKS NAVIGATED TONIGHT
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✗ POST /process-runs silently ignores `title`
→ PATCH after POST

✗ API-created runs use started_by: "api", invisible in Personal
→ user has to look in Team tab

✗ Cannot edit tasks on a published template
→ POST /process-templates/:id/publish with {published: false},
edit, then publish: true

✗ PATCH on run tasks can only UPDATE existing custom_elements
by id, not ADD new ones
→ instructions must be on the template BEFORE creating runs;
inheritance is creation-time only

✗ POST /process-runs ignores custom_elements field too
→ can only initialize from template

These would make great GitHub issues if you want to share and we can post feedback for NextStep.
the API is solid but the docs don't surface these quirks, and
the started_by issue makes API-driven workflows feel broken.

Founder Team
Ryan_Walker

Ryan_Walker

May 26, 2026

Thanks for the review and this!

Regarding the API tweaks:
- Title is now accepted
- Published Templates can now be edited via API, this has been adjusted as we are improving the templates process version system
- Updating running processes is currently in progress

Thank again!

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