<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Flow blog</title><description>Flow turns the processes your team runs by hand into workflows that AI agents carry out across your CRM, billing, inbox and Slack, with approvals where you want them.</description><link>https://flow.xocoweb.workers.dev/</link><language>en</language><item><title>Introducing Flow Agents: steps that read, decide and write back</title><link>https://flow.xocoweb.workers.dev/blog/introducing-flow-agents/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://flow.xocoweb.workers.dev/blog/introducing-flow-agents/</guid><description>Agents are now a step type in every workflow. 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