Workspaces - Prisme.ai

Introduction

A workspace is the unit you build in on the foundation from Builder, the container where agents, automations, and front-ends come together as one governed, versioned whole. This documentation provides an overview of workspaces, detailing configuration, secrets management, version control, events, custom domains, and JSON schema forms. It is designed for advanced technical users looking to effectively manage and utilize workspaces.

Workspace Configuration

Basic Configuration

The workspace config provides centralized settings and parameters for your entire workspace.

name: MyConfiguredWorkspace
slug: test
config:
  value:
    API_URL: https://api.mycompany.com
    LOGIN_URL: "{{config.API_URL}}/login"
    headers:
      apiKey: someAPIKey

The config.value field is exposed as a config variable inside your automations, making these settings accessible throughout your workspace.

You can reference other config values within your configuration using the {{config.PROPERTY}} syntax, as shown in the LOGIN_URL example above.

Using Secrets in Configuration

For sensitive configuration values, use secrets:

config:
  value:
    API_URL: https://api.mycompany.com
    headers:
      apiKey: "{{secret.apiKey}}"

Secrets provide a secure way to store and use sensitive information like API keys, passwords, and tokens without exposing them in your code.

Secrets with names starting with prismeai_* are reserved for super admins to configure system settings by workspace.

Environment Variables

You can also inject configuration values from environment variables:

WORKSPACE_CONFIG_test_API_URL=https://api.mycompany.com

This environment variable would set config.API_URL for a workspace with the slug “test”. Workspace config takes precedence over environment variables. Similarly, secrets can be injected from environment variables using the WORKSPACE_SECRET_ prefix:

WORKSPACE_SECRET_test_apiKey=sk-xxx

This would expose {{secret.apiKey}} for a workspace with the slug “test”. Workspace-stored secrets take precedence over environment variables. Apps support the same pattern via the APP_CONFIG_ and APP_SECRET_ prefixes (using the app’s slug instead of a workspace slug).

Configuration Schema

For more controlled configuration, especially for Apps, you can define a schema for your config:

config:
  schema:
    type: object
    properties:
      API_URL:
        type: string
        title: API URL
        description: Base URL for the API
      maxRetries:
        type: number
        title: Maximum Retries
        default: 3
  value:
    API_URL: https://api.mycompany.com
    maxRetries: 5

This schema defines the structure, types, and defaults for your configuration, providing better validation and documentation.

Workspace Secrets

What Are Secrets?

Secrets provide a secure way to store sensitive information like API keys, passwords, and access tokens.

Managing Secrets

Workspaces can have secrets provided through:

The web interface
API calls
CI pipeline integration with an external secrets manager

By default, only workspace owners can access these secrets.

You can manage secrets programmatically using the /workspaces/:workspaceId/security/secrets API.

Declaring and Using Secrets

To use a secret in your workspace, declare it in your workspace configuration schema:

secrets:
  schema:
    apiKey:
      title: API Key
      description: The application Client Id
      type: string
      ui:widget: password
      required: true

Example: How a secret field (apiKey) appears in the workspace configuration UI. The value is masked for security. Reference the secret in your workspace configuration:

config:
  value:
    API_URL: https://api.mycompany.com
    headers:
      apiKey: '{{secret.apiKey}}'

Secrets can be used in automations and configuration. The actual value is only visible in the configuration tab and is never displayed in automation execution logs. Secrets can be used from automations

slug: Demo
name: Demo
do:
  - set:
      name: Demo
      value: '{{config.apiKey}}'
  # OR
  - set:
    name: Demo
    value: '{{config}}' ## Access the whole config.
output: '{{Demo}}'

Example: When running an automation that uses a secret, the value is not exposed in the output.

Secret Redaction in Logs

When secrets are used, their values are automatically redacted (or hidden if access directly) in logs and activity views when acessing the whole config.:

{
  "slug": "test",
  "payload": {},
  "output": {
    "API_URL": "https://api.mycompany.com",
    "headers": {
      "apiKey": "REDACTED"
    }
  },
  "duration": 0,
  "startedAt": "2025-12-30T19:33:17.562Z",
  "trigger": {
    "type": "automation",
    "value": "test"
  },
  "break": false
}

This ensures that secret values are never exposed, maintaining security.

Using Secrets in Other Contexts

Secrets can also be used in repository configurations:

repositories:
  github:
    name: My Repository
    type: git
    mode: read-write
    config:
      url: https://github.com/YourUser/your-repository.git
      branch: main
      auth:
        user: 'your git user'
        password: '{{secret.gitPassword}}'

Secrets beginning with prismeai_* are reserved for super admins to configure system settings.

Version Control

Workspaces can be synchronized with external Git repositories for collaborative version control. This enables push/pull workflows, merge conflict handling, dirty tracking, bulk operations, and more. For complete documentation on repository configuration, collaboration workflows, merge conflicts, bulk import/push, and all versioning features, see the dedicated Versioning page.

Workspace Events

What Are Events?

Each workspace maintains a continuous real-time stream of events that describe activities and interactions.

Event Types

Workspaces work with two main types of events:

Native Events: Automatically generated by the platform (updates, webhooks, errors, automation executions, etc.)
Custom Events: Emitted by your automations or installed apps

Events are stored for up to 3 years and can be viewed/searched from the Activity view of the workspace.

Events from workspaces inactive for longer than 15 days and with fewer than 100 events are regularly deleted. Events from deleted workspaces are kept for up to 6 months after deletion.

Event Structure

Every event includes a type, payload and source fields. These contain important information:

type: Type of the given event (can also represent the name of the event)
payload: Payload of the event, contains useful data specific to the event type
source.userId: Authenticated user ID (only set for user-emitted events)
source.sessionId: Session ID shared by all events related to a user session
source.correlationId: Unique ID shared by events related to the same initial trigger
source.automationSlug: Automation that emitted the event
source.appInstanceFullSlug: Source app instance slug (if applicable)
source.http: Source HTTP request details (if applicable)

This information helps track the origin and context of each event.

Working with Events

Events serve several key purposes in workspaces:

Recording Activity: Maintaining an audit trail of system and user actions
Triggering Automations: Events can start automation workflows
Inter-Component Communication: Components can communicate via events
Monitoring and Analytics: Events provide insights into system usage

For security reasons, events emitted from a nested app (an app installed within another app) will not be visible in the root workspace events feed.

Activity View

The Activity view (formerly the workspace “events” feed, previously surfaced in Governance) provides a real-time window into your workspace events, now scoped to the workspace you are editing:

Filter Events: Narrow down by full-text search, event type, source, or time range
Inspect Details: View complete event data including payload and source
Track Correlations: Follow chains of related events, and open trace views (Table, Timeline, Graph, Distribution) when filtering by a correlation ID
Debug Issues: Identify problems by examining event flows

This view is invaluable for monitoring, debugging, and understanding your workspace’s behavior. For the full reference, see Activity. For aggregated dashboards over these same events (health, latency, errors, usage, and dependencies), see Observability, whose charts deep-link back to Activity.

Event Retention Policy

Events from workspaces inactive for longer than 15 days and with fewer than 100 events are regularly deleted. Events from deleted workspaces are kept for up to 6 months after deletion.

Custom Domains

Step-by-Step Guide

You can attach a custom domain to your workspace to display pages under your own domain name.

Add DNS Record

Add a CNAME entry to your domain pointing to pages.prisme.aiFor root domains, use an ALIAS record instead of a CNAME.

Configure Workspace

Add the domain to your workspace configuration:

customDomains:
  - www.example.com

Activate Custom Domain

For Enterprise version, contact support to complete the setup.Contact Support

JSON Schema Form

Basic Schema Form

Workspace configuration often uses JSON Schema Form, a standard for creating declarative complex forms. This is particularly important for app configuration. A schema form starts with a single field, typically of type “object”:

type: 'object'
properties:
  firstname:
    type: string
  lastname:
    type: string

This creates a form with two fields, producing an object with “firstname” and “lastname” properties.

Field Types

Fields can have various types:

string: Text input
localized:string: Translatable text
number: Numeric input
localized:number: Translatable numbers
boolean: Switch button
localized:boolean: Translatable booleans
object: Nested object with properties
array: List of items

Additional attributes include:

title: Field label
description: Help text
default: Default value
enum: List of allowed values
enumNames: Display labels for enum values
required: Whether the field is required
pattern: Validation regex
hidden: Whether to hide the field

Advanced Features

Schema forms support advanced features: Custom Widgets

properties:
  description:
    type: string
    ui:widget: textarea
  birthdate:
    type: string
    ui:widget: date
  color:
    type: string
    ui:widget: color

Conditional Fields (oneOf)

properties:
  paymentType:
    oneOf:
      - title: Credit Card
        value: creditCard
        properties:
          cardNumber:
            type: string
            title: Card Number
      - title: Bank Transfer
        value: bankTransfer
        properties:
          accountNumber:
            type: string
            title: Account Number

Arrays and Objects

properties:
  contacts:
    type: array
    title: Contacts
    items:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
        email:
          type: string

Form Validation

Schema forms include validation rules. Each rule can just have a true value to display default message with default behavior but can also be an object with value and message. A field can have many validators. The list of validators is:

required: the value is required
min: the value as number must be greater than validator value
max: the value as number must be lower than validator value
email: the value must be a valid email address
tel: the value must be a valid phone number
date: the value must be a valid Date
minLength: the value as string must have a greater length than validator value
maxLength: the value as string must have a lower length than validator value
pattern: the value must match the regular expression set in validator value.

The following example shows some implementations of validators:

properties:
  foo:
    type: string
    validators:
      required: true
  bar:
    type: string
    validators:
      required:
        message:
          en: Value is mandatory. Please fill it.
          fr: La valeur est obligatoire. Merci de la renseigner.
      value: true
  email:
    type: string
    validators:
    email: true
  password:
    type: string
    title: Password
    ui:widget: password
    validators:
      required: true
      minLength:
        value: 8
        message: Password must be at least 8 characters

Complete Example

Here’s a more complete schema form example:

type: object
title: My Cool Form
description: This is an example of form
properties:
  firstName:
    type: string
    title: Firstname
  lastName:
    type: string
    title: Lastname
  birthdate:
    type: string
    ui:widget: date
    title: Birthdate
  genre:
    type: string
    title: Genre
    enum:
      - 1
      - 2
      - 3
    enumNames:
      - Man
      - Woman
      - Other
  address:
    type: string
    ui:widget: textarea
  hobbies:
    type: object
    title: Your hobbies
    properties:
      favoriteMusic:
        type: array
        title: Favorite music
        items:
          type: string
          title: Type an artist name

This form collects personal information with various field types and widgets.

Project Templates

A template is a workspace that other users can clone from the Create new workspace screen in Builder. Templates are the way the platform ships ready-to-use starting points: your team’s, or the ones bundled with your deployment.

Cloning a template

From the Builder home, click Create new workspace. The wizard offers three sources:

Source	What you get
From scratch	An empty workspace with two auto-generated automations (`v1/status` and `on-app-greeting-requested`) so the deploy pipeline has something to publish on day one.
From a template	A fresh workspace pre-loaded with the template’s automations, pages, imports, security, and (optionally) a configuration form that asks for parameters specific to your clone.
From an archive (.zip)	Imports a workspace export. Used to migrate workspaces between instances; see Versioning → Export/Import.

A clone is a full copy: it gets its own ID, slug, secrets, and event history. Updates to the source template do not propagate to existing clones; the lineage is one-shot.

What a template carries vs leaves blank

Carried over	Replaced or blank in the clone
Automations, pages, imports, RBAC, custom code	New workspace ID, slug, and name
Workspace `index.yml` (config, secret schema, repositories)	Secret values (only the schema is cloned; the clone starts with empty secrets)
Labels, description, icon	Membership (the clone starts with only the user who cloned it)
Template’s configuration form (if declared)	Files (uploads) and runtime data (events, collections)

If the template declares a configuration form, the wizard renders it before creating the clone, and the answers are written into the new workspace’s config block ({{config.*}}) and/or secret values. This is how templates can ship parameterized starting points (e.g. “Slack incident bot: paste your Slack webhook”).

Catalog of available templates

Which templates appear in the wizard depends on your deployment:

Org-published templates: workspaces your org admins have promoted to template status from Govern → Menu Editor. These are the most common ones in production.
Platform-bundled templates: depending on the version of the platform, a handful of starter templates may ship with the deployment (typically empty React/Vite scaffolds, a webhook demo, and a chat agent demo). Check Create new workspace for the current list.

Reference starter: `starter-spa`

Outside the in-Builder wizard, the open-source prismeai/starter-spa repo is the canonical “very simple app”: a fully working React + Radix + Tailwind SPA wired to two backend automations (a REST webhook and an event listener). Clone it, run npm run release, and your workspace ends up with the same files the Builder would have seeded. The starter is the easiest reference when:

A non-template workspace needs a known-good baseline to copy automations or React code from.
You want to demonstrate the platform’s host contract without building anything from scratch.
A team prefers an IDE + Git + CI flow to the in-Builder editor.

See Pages → Build Locally for the integration details.

Publishing your own template

Once a workspace is polished, an org admin can publish it as a template so other users can clone it. The publishing step happens in Govern → Menu Editor. A condensed checklist:

Polish the workspace: remove dev-only secrets, add documentation, label it.
Declare it as a Template Feature in Govern → Menu Editor: pick the source workspace, choose the label visible in the wizard, and (optionally) attach a configuration form (see JSON Schema Form).
Verify by cloning the template yourself; make sure the clone runs without manual fixup.

See Workspace Templates for the full step-by-step walkthrough, including how to gate templates with feature flags and how to maintain them across versions.

Templates vs apps

Templates and apps both let one workspace be reused, but they solve different problems:

	Template	App
Reuse model	Clone-once, then the clone is fully independent.	Installed as an import; updates can be pulled.
Edits in the source workspace	Do not affect existing clones.	Versioning lets app consumers pull a new version.
Use it for	Starter projects, opinionated scaffolds.	Reusable building blocks (an integration, an agent capability) consumed by multiple workspaces.

If end users will build on top of a template, publish it as a template. If end users will configure and call it as a black box, publish it as an app.

Next Steps

Automations

Create backend processes and workflows

Pages

Build interactive user interfaces

Workspace Templates

Publish a workspace others can clone as a starting point

​Introduction

​Workspace Configuration

​Basic Configuration

​Using Secrets in Configuration

​Environment Variables

​Configuration Schema

​Workspace Secrets

​What Are Secrets?

​Managing Secrets

​Declaring and Using Secrets

​Secret Redaction in Logs

​Using Secrets in Other Contexts

​Version Control

​Workspace Events

​What Are Events?

​Event Types

​Event Structure

​Working with Events

​Activity View

​Event Retention Policy

​Custom Domains

​Step-by-Step Guide

​JSON Schema Form

​Basic Schema Form

​Field Types

​Advanced Features

​Form Validation

​Complete Example

​Project Templates

​Cloning a template

​What a template carries vs leaves blank

​Catalog of available templates

​Reference starter: starter-spa

​Publishing your own template

​Templates vs apps

​Next Steps

Automations

Pages

Workspace Templates

Introduction

Workspace Configuration

Basic Configuration

Using Secrets in Configuration

Environment Variables

Configuration Schema

Workspace Secrets

What Are Secrets?

Managing Secrets

Declaring and Using Secrets

Secret Redaction in Logs

Using Secrets in Other Contexts

Version Control

Workspace Events

What Are Events?

Event Types

Event Structure

Working with Events

Activity View

Event Retention Policy

Custom Domains

Step-by-Step Guide

JSON Schema Form

Basic Schema Form

Field Types

Advanced Features

Form Validation

Complete Example

Project Templates

Cloning a template

What a template carries vs leaves blank

Catalog of available templates

Reference starter: `starter-spa`

Publishing your own template

Templates vs apps

Next Steps