Workspaces and projects
Workspace. The top-level container for your work: projects, teammates, and one shared credit wallet. You can belong to several, and switch between them from the rail on the left edge of Creator Studio.
Project: a single piece of work inside a workspace, holding one canvas. See core concepts for how workspaces and projects fit together.
The canvas
Canvas: the infinite, node-based editor where you generate and connect ideas. Every project opens into one.
Node. The basic unit of the canvas: a piece of content (text, image, video, and more) with a prompt, settings, and connection points that carry context to and from other nodes.
Generation. One run of a node: your prompt and any connected inputs go to an AI model, and the result renders inside the node. Non-destructive. Rerun a node as many times as you like.
Composition: a node type that layers connected clips, images, and audio into an editable timeline, which opens in full in Studio when you’re ready to finish the edit.
Render. Exporting a finished, playable file: either a single asset downloaded from a node, or a full composition rendered from Studio’s timeline. See exporting & downloads.
Credits
Credit: the unit generating spends. Every workspace has one shared wallet; credits are reserved when a generation starts, deducted on success, and refunded automatically on failure. See how credits work.
Flows and the API
Flow (a published, reusable app built on a canvas, with defined inputs and outputs) runnable from its own page without opening the canvas behind it, or over the API. See publishing to Community and running a flow.
Run. One execution of a flow: asynchronous, returning immediately with an id you poll until it completes. Distinct from a generation, which is a single node’s execution on the canvas.
Library
Element: a reusable character, product, or location kept in your workspace’s Library so a subject stays visually consistent across generations, rather than being described from scratch every time.
Brand kit, a workspace’s packaged identity, logos, colors, fonts, and brand imagery, captured once and applied to generations across any project. See brand kit.
Template: a project someone has published to Community. Anyone can preview one and remix it into a project of their own.
Remix. Copying a template into a project you own: Flowy clones its canvas and media server-side, so the copy is fully yours to edit without touching the original.
The AI assistant
Skill: two related but different things, depending on which surface you’re on. On the canvas, a skill is a reusable build pattern the AI assistant learns from your work and replays on a similar request later. Over MCP, a skill is an expert instruction pack an external AI agent loads on demand to guide multi-step Flowy work, like directing a multi-shot film or building a brand kit.
MCP. The Model Context Protocol, the open standard Flowy’s hosted server uses to connect AI agents like Claude or Cursor directly to your account. See MCP server.Last modified on August 29, 2026
