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Canvases keep agentic work visible and steerable instead of lost in chat scroll
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A GitHub developer advocate explains how canvases prevent agent work from getting lost in chat scroll, making workflows visible and steerable.
For engineers building agentic workflows, the choice of interface affects observability and control. Canvases offer a persistent, structured view that chat lacks, potentially reducing errors and cost from lost context.
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Chat captures intent but agent work disappears in the scroll.
Canvases provide visibility and steerability for agentic workflows.
The author recommends canvases for every agentic workflow.
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