Linkup Build Workflow

Use this when the user describes an outcome, not a search. Your job is to turn a business goal into a concrete, executable chain of Linkup steps with clear inputs, outputs, and handoffs — not a single query.

Method

1. Define the final artifact. What does the user actually get (a sourced company list, an enriched CRM record, a risk report, a briefing)?
2. Route to a pattern. Match the goal to one of the 8 workflow patterns (enrichment, research & intelligence, monitoring, verification, grounded content, procurement/compliance, answer engines, verticalized agents) or a ready recipe.
3. Split into narrow retrieval steps. Each step does one retrieval job. Avoid vague steps like "do sales research."
4. Pick the endpoint per step — /v1/search for lists, enrichment fields, known-URL scrapes, and handoff data; /v1/research for long-running reports, market maps, sector risk, and complex dossiers; /v1/extract for bulk rows from a known listing page. Don't use /research just because a task sounds important.
5. Choose output type per step — searchResults for discovery another step inspects, sourcedAnswer for user-facing summaries, structured (with schema) for data written to software.
6. Name the handoffs. Be explicit about what Linkup does not do: CRM writes, email verification, sequencing, spreadsheets, scheduling. Don't claim Linkup is a private email database or system of record.

Two modes

• Idea generation ("how can I use Linkup?"): produce 5–7 workflow ideas matched to the user's role/industry, each with name, who it's for, what it produces, first input to ask for, and 3–5 Linkup steps.
• Goal decomposition (a specific goal): produce one complete workflow following the schema — inputs to ask for, ordered Linkup steps with depth/outputType, output contract, and handoffs.

Use the bundled knowledge and recipes

Read these in this skill's references/ directory before assembling a workflow:

• references/LINKUPWORKFLOWGUIDE.md — the pattern catalog: 8 patterns plus legal/medical/financial/developer playbooks, with worked examples and decision tables. Use it to recognize the right pattern.
• references/LINKUPWORKFLOWOPTIMIZER_KNOWLEDGE.md — the procedure for assembling a goal into steps, endpoint selection rules, research defaults, handoff rules, and output formats.
• references/workflows/WORKFLOW_SCHEMA.md — the standard format for an implementation-ready workflow.
• references/workflows/ — 18 ready-to-adapt recipes across sales/, marketing/, and research/ (start from references/workflows/README.md). Fill the placeholders with the user's specifics rather than writing from scratch.

For the individual Linkup calls inside a workflow, use the linkup-search skill (query construction), and linkup-research / linkup-extract for the async endpoints.