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What changed

Brings every Workflows documentation page in line with the deprecation. Previously only the migration guide carried the direct, dated retirement notice — the rest had softer "no longer recommended" banners, and the intro page actively encouraged new builds.

  • Dated retirement banner (retires August 18, 2026) added to the overview, quickstart, and all six example pages, placed above each page's existing recommendation/links.
  • Intro page (fern/workflows.mdx): replaced the green "Start building today" launch banner with the retirement warning, and added a reminder at the top of the "Creating Your First Workflow" walkthrough.
  • Explicit "don't create new workflows" wording across all banners, calling out that the dashboard still allows it (since the dashboard has not yet been updated to block creation).

Why

Workflows is being retired on August 18, 2026. Users landing on any Workflows page — especially the create/quickstart/intro flows — should see a consistent, unambiguous message: don't build new workflows, migrate existing ones to Squads.

Reviewer notes

  • Existing page-specific links (to the matching Assistant/Squad examples) were preserved; the dated notice was added above them, not in place of them.
  • On the overview page, the long "Why we've moved away from Workflows" text was trimmed from the banner since that explanation already lives in full on the migration guide. Happy to restore it outside the banner if preferred.
  • The intro page (/workflows) is configured to redirect to the quickstart, so most visitors may not see it directly — fixed anyway since the content was live and contradicted the deprecation.
  • The legacy-migration.mdx banner was left as-is (already approved/live).

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…rkflows pages

Workflows is being deprecated (retiring August 18, 2026). Only the migration
guide carried the direct, dated retirement notice; the rest of the Workflows
pages had softer "no longer recommended" banners or, in the case of the intro
page, a banner actively encouraging new builds.

This brings every Workflows page in line:
- Adds the dated retirement warning (retires Aug 18, 2026) to the overview,
  quickstart, and all six example pages, above their existing page-specific
  recommendation/links.
- Replaces the green "Start building today" launch banner on the intro page
  (fern/workflows.mdx) with the retirement warning, and adds a reminder at the
  "Creating Your First Workflow" walkthrough.
- Makes the messaging explicit that users should NOT create new workflows even
  though the dashboard still allows it (the dashboard has not yet been updated).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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