# Your First Automation (Tutorial)

## Create your first AI-powered browser automation in Donobu Studio — from entering a URL and objective to reviewing step-by-step results.

In this tutorial, you'll create your first automation flow in Donobu Studio. You'll tell the AI what to do in plain English, watch it navigate a website, and review the results.

## Prerequisites

- Donobu Studio installed and running ( [download](/content/download/index.html))
- At least one LLM provider key configured in Studio settings

## Step 1: Open Studio and start a new flow

Launch the Donobu Studio application. You'll see the main screen with the flow creation area.

## Step 2: Enter a website and objective

1. In the **URL** field, enter the website you want to automate. For this tutorial, try a public site like `https://en.wikipedia.org`.
2. In the **Objective** field, describe what you want Donobu to do. For example:
   
   > Search for "artificial intelligence" and navigate to the article page.

3. Leave the other settings at their defaults for now.

## Step 3: Submit and watch Flow Pilot work

Click **Submit**. Donobu will:

1. Open a browser window
2. Navigate to the website
3. Use Flow Pilot (the AI agent) to figure out the best sequence of actions
4. Execute each action — searching, clicking, typing — to achieve your objective
5. Capture a screenshot after each action

You can watch the flow execute in real time. If something goes wrong, you can cancel the flow at any time by clicking the **Stop** button.

## Step 4: Review the results

Once the flow completes, you'll see the results in Studio:

1. Click on the flow in the flow list to open its detail view.
2. The title bar of the screen shows overall flow information: name, AI agent, run mode ( **Autonomous** for this first run), number of actions, and status ( **Success** in this case).
3. Under that, you'll see some additional information: the objective, ID, runtime, and token usage.
4. If **video recording** is enabled, you can play back the full session.
5. The **Timeline** shows every action Flow Pilot took, with thumbnail, description, and duration for each.
6. Click on the thumbnail in any step to see the **screenshot** captured at that point.

## Step 5: Try rerunning the flow

Now that you have a successful flow, you can **Rerun** it. A rerun replays the exact same actions without using the AI, making it fast and free.

1. Open the flow's detail view.
2. Click the **Execute** button.
3. Watch the flow execute the same steps — this time in **Deterministic** mode.

This is the basis of regression testing in Studio: run a flow once with AI, then rerun it as many times as you need.

## What to try next

- **Change the objective** to something more complex, like "Search for artificial intelligence, then navigate to the History section of the article."
- **Try a different website** — any public site will work.
- **Export the flow as code** — on the **Code** tab, click the **Download** button to generate an executable Playwright script from the flow. For more information on writing and executing Donobu-powered Playwright tests, see the documentation and tutorials for the [Donobu Playwright Extension](/content/docs/playwright/index.html).
- Follow the [Form Automation](/content/docs/studio/tutorials/form-automation/index.html) tutorial to learn about environment variables and data validation.