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Send Message to Assistant

Use this action when you want one workflow or agent action to hand work to another assistant and reuse that assistant's reply.

Best for

  • Reusing a specialist assistant from multiple workflows
  • Building assistant-to-assistant handoffs
  • Running a second assistant against a prepared piece of text

Main fields

FieldWhat it does
AssistantSelects the assistant that should receive the message
TextThe message to send to that assistant

What later steps can use

The target assistant's reply messages are usually available at:

  • step(N).messages

Tips

  • Use this when you want another assistant's full behavior, not just raw LLM output.
  • Keep the text clear and self-contained so the second assistant has the right context.
  • Avoid circular designs where assistants keep sending work back to each other.