- Get started
- Build
- HTTP Request
- How connector nodes work
- Create a connection
- Sales and customer relationships
- Customer support and help desk
- Messaging and meetings
- Email
- Marketing
- Social media
- Files, documents, and e-signature
- Projects, collaboration, and code
- People and recruiting
- Finance and commerce
- AI models and agents
- Speech, vision, and language
- Data and location
- Cloud, identity, and security
- Deploy and run
- Examples
- Reference
Where to build
Where to build Maestro Automate workflows: VS Code with a coding agent, Studio Web in your browser, or Studio Desktop next to your RPA projects.
You can build a Maestro Automate workflow in three places. All three use the same Flow canvas, so a workflow looks and behaves the same way in each, and you can open it in another one later. A coding agent can build a workflow for you in any of them: Autopilot (Preview) is built in to Studio Web and Studio Desktop, and your own coding agent, such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, works in VS Code because that's where it already lives.
Which one fits you
| Your situation | Use | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You already work in VS Code, or a fork such as Cursor, with your own development environment and coding agent set up there, or you keep workflows as files in a code repository | Visual Studio Code (VS Code), or an editor based on it, such as Cursor, Google Antigravity, or Kiro | Your coding agent writes the workflow file in your local IDE, and you see and change it on the canvas. Autopilot (Preview) is available too, through the UiPath Autopilot extension |
| You want to start right away, with nothing to install | Studio Web | Runs in your browser, with Autopilot (Preview) to build workflows from a description |
| You already build RPA projects in Studio Desktop | Studio Desktop | Workflows and RPA projects are built in the same application, a workflow can call your RPA projects, and Autopilot (Preview) is available |
Compare them
| Where it runs | What to install | |
|---|---|---|
| VS Code | On your computer, or on a remote host such as Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), SSH, Codespaces, or a dev container | The UiPath Maestro extension, and Node.js with npm for the UiPath CLI |
| Studio Web | In your browser | Nothing |
| Studio Desktop | On your computer | UiPath Studio Desktop |
A project lives in a solution, a container that groups related projects. One solution can hold several projects, such as a workflow and the agents it calls.
Get started
- Build in VS Code: install the extension, sign in, and create a project.
- Build in Studio Web: open Studio Web and create a project.
- Build in Studio Desktop: create a project next to your RPA projects.
Next steps
- Set up your coding agent: let a coding agent build workflows for you.
- Your first workflow: build and test a complete workflow in about 15 minutes.
- Community: ask questions and share workflows with other builders on the UiPath Forum.