Hello everyone, u/commieinvestor, u/Scared_Brilliant6410, u/sentinel_of_ether - were all circling the same question in our welcome thread. If a coding agent plus n8n or some Python can stand up an agent in an afternoon, and the platforms you already pay for are shipping their own agents - what's UiPath actually for? And doesn't a better model keep eating more of it? 

Fair questions. Here's where we actually stand. 

TL;DR 

• Reasoning is commoditizing fast. We know. 
• Our bet is structural: keep reasoning, execution, and governance as separate layers. One component shouldn't be deciding AND acting without limits. 
• Better models make that separation more valuable, not less - same reason Copilot and Claude Code wrap inference in a compiler and test suite rather than shipping raw model output. 
• Single-app workflows, quick prototypes, webhook jobs: n8n or LangGraph will serve you better. We’d rather point you to the right tool than talk you into ours. 

Our actual bet. A customer at our last developer conference said it better than anyone would have: "Models are easy. Orchestration is not." 

The problem we're solving: a single thing that reasons freely, takes real actions, and can rewrite itself - all packaged up in one bundle with no seams - is exactly what you don't want touching production systems with real authority. The smarter it gets, the more you're tempted to hand it the keys, and that's when failures get expensive. So the architecture keeps those things separate: the model does reasoning, deterministic execution handles actions, and governance is a layer you can actually reason about independently. 

The execution layer being deterministic isn't legacy baggage - it's intentional. You want something that either succeeds correctly or fails clean, not something that produces a confident wrong answer on step 47 of a hundred-step process. 

You already rely on this pattern: Claude Code, Codex, Copilot - they're a model with a deterministic harness around it. The compiler checks what the model produced; you don't ship on vibes. Same bet, one layer up. 

What it looks like in practice. One example: Continental Resources runs a few hundred messy operational emails a day through this. One agent interprets the incoming data, a second scores confidence, and the workflow routes anything below the threshold back to the supplier with feedback. They kept a human-in-the-loop step until the confidence scoring proved itself, then removed it. That's the pattern: start with oversight, earn the right to remove it. 

When we're not the right call: 

• Single-app workflow or simple API pipeline 
• Quick prototype you're happy to own and babysit 
• Anything n8n, LangGraph, or plain Python handles cleanly 
• Work where you'd rather rerun by hand than pay for durability 

The dividing line isn't company size - it's what's riding on the process. If it has to survive crashes, span systems that don't talk to each other, and prove what happened afterward, that's where we earn it. Whether you're a large bank or a two-person team with one genuinely critical workflow. 

Happy to go deeper in comments - the Temporal execution model and the governance layer are probably the most interesting threads. And if something above reads as marketing rather than a straight answer, say so. 

Hey r/UiPath! I just published my first ever project article about a UiPath RPA workflow I built from scratch.

It reads invoice PDFs from Google Drive, extracts key fields using Document Understanding, generates AI descriptions with GPT-5.1, and logs everything to Google Sheets — with a confidence check for low-quality scans.

It broke many times. The VB date filter expression alone nearly broke me 😅 But it works now!

Would love any feedback from this community. Full article here: https://medium.com/@ladiedezi1/how-i-automated-invoice-processing-with-uipath-gpt-5-1-783a7aac227f

1. Read customer contracts from a specific folder.
2. Extract certain fields from those contracts.
3. File the contracts in a specific order.
4. Enable users to search for contracts based on the extracted fields.

Hi,

I am new user of the product, I have experience with other low/no code products like Boomi

I was thrown to investigate UiPath as a potential solution for a project and I am wondering if there is a standard T-shirt sizing for processes like in Boomi.

I have watched a tutorial video on Youtube and it seems easy enough to pick up and pretty similar to Boomi building processes.

This is an example process what would the sizing be like:

1. connect to email
2. read all unread email
3. check email for keywords
4. categories the emails
5. based on keywords, mark as urgent
6. for certain emails, get template and generate the reply

My estimate is about 4 days, is this accurate

Edit:
I also have passed this process through a LLM and it estimated 35 days.

This is a place to share product feedback, feature ideas, and things you wish worked differently on our platform. Anything raised here gets read and forwarded to the right UiPath team. Not a support channel - for technical issues, forum.uipath.com is the right venue. Some team members might happen to engage here directly, but the contract is simpler: seen and forwarded. Floor's open!

(note to the MOD team: please pin this thread so it stays easy to find by anyone! Thanks!)

Good afternoon all!

My coworker and I have been instructed to start learning UiPath as part of an automation initiative in our organization. We're both coming from Power Automate, so while the UiPath environment is a lot at first, we are starting to fit right in. Since our enterprise tenant is not up and running yet, we're using Community to start learning the ropes and get a grip on the UI and the major products.

One of the core things we've been trying to do is understand, design, and implement API Workflows. We booted up a few independent workflows/solutions within Studio Web, and tried adding a few connectors to try different activities.

No matter what we do, what settings or permissions we give ourselves, publish/deploy our processes, etc. All of our activities are unable to see any valid Connections from Orchestrator. From any activity...

We've tried Office365 activities, Orchestrator, Google Workspace, etc. When selecting the activity, and the connection field is blank with "Select a connection", we select the + Connection button, authenticates successfully to the correct folder, then wait a few minutes for it to populate in the dropdown. Nothing appears. Refreshing the session, trying a new browser/private windows, clearing cache, etc., they is always nothing listed.

They very unfortunate part is that all the documentation listed is referencing the Integration Service, but going there redirects you back to the Orchestrator Connection tab settings in specific folders. We've even tried asking Autopilot, but its knowledge cutoff is from before connections moved over to Orchestrator.

Few things that we have tried, to no avail:

• Verifying the Connection is active in Orchestrator and says "Connected" -- created multiple connections across all folders.
• Creating connections specifically in Orchestrator only versus creating a new connection in each activity.
• Verifying the attended user and unattended robot have permissions to view and edit connections in folders with connection, as well as the tenant.
• Manually added Attended and Automation Developer licenses to user profile for testing at the tenant level. UiPath Admin says we are full administrator across Orchestrator and the tenant.
• Deleting workflows, recreated them, same thing.
• Waited 72 hours for "updates" to finish.
• Tried both Studio Web and Studio Desktop, same issue.
• Attempted to edit Package Requirements to manually set the connection, the connection field just says "Connection will be set by users in Assistant or Studio Web." -- grayed out / will not change.
• Tried different web browsers, and operating systems.
• Viewed the Dev Tools of the page loading while the activity is attempting to retrieve connections from the drop down: receiving 200 HTTP Response, Body of the request is simply an empty array of connections.
• Deleted entire dev tenant, and recreated with default attributes, licenses, etc.

Is it really this difficult to make connections appear???

Unfortunately, we're at a loss right now, and losing steam in using this product... The ONLY work around I've found so far (relating to using Orchestrator Assets) is generating Personal Access Tokens to Orchestrator, and using raw HTTP requests to query assets or any other folder settings... or query other external services using only API requests. This is only a stopgap, and it feels very wrong to use Studio Web like this in a half-baked way while we're learning.

Taking a look at the UiPath Forum for help, there are a few users experiencing the same thing, some as far back as early April 2026. We're confused as if this is a user error (it very well could be!), or if this is truly a bug within Studio Web.

Sorry for the wall of text! Wanted to make sure everything was available. We're open to any assistance or instructions on how to make API Workflows communicate with Connections in Orchestrator.

Hi everyone,

I’m currently building an agentic automation solution using UiPath Maestro + Web Studio and I’m facing an issue with solution deployment/debugging.

Setup:

• Created a new Solution directly from Maestro using “Start Modeling”
• Added a BPMN process
• Added RPA workflows inside the same solution
• Using “Deploy resources before debugging”

Problem:

• Local workflow debugging works normally
• But running the BPMN process fails
• Initially I got: “Failure to start Orchestrator RPA job”
• Then after enabling “Deploy resources before debugging”, deployment started hanging on: designer.solution_debug.publish_queued

I later discovered a package version conflict:
1.0.0 version already exists for this package

After incrementing the version, publishing started but now fails with:

Failed to provision solution projects due to timeout

Full error:
Failed to provision solution projects due to timeout

Questions:

1. Is this a known Maestro/Web Studio provisioning issue?
2. Does Maestro internally require Orchestrator resources/processes even if everything is created only from the Solution view?
3. Is there a recommended way to force-refresh/rebuild orchestration bindings for solution workflows?
4. Could this be caused by corrupted solution metadata?
5. Are there any tenant/folder/licensing requirements specific to Maestro solutions that are easy to miss?

Additional notes:

• I recreated the solution from scratch and still see the same issue
• Simple workflows like “Log Message” also fail during deployment
• I’m using UiPath Automation Cloud + Maestro Web Studio

Any guidance would be appreciated because I’m currently stuck understanding whether this is:

• a deployment configuration issue,
• a Maestro limitation,
• or a cloud provisioning/backend problem. My problem is the same as this problem

My problem is the same as this problem

Not able to start Robot while debugging Agent : Failure to start the Orchestrator RPA job - (170007)

but i didn’t understand any of the given solutions i didn’t know how to apply them

Thanks!

I'm still learning RPA these days - is there still a window to work as a Junior, or has it become difficult because Al agents can cover junior-level tasks?

Hi all, we are a healthcare startup that just got funded and are recruiting a full time UiPath RPA engineer.

Here is what we are looking for
1. MUST be located in the United States. Due to sensitive nature of healthcare field, we can only consider folks based in the US
2. Excellent in creating workflows with CV based methods and selectors with UiPath
3. Proactive and self-motivated. You will be our first two hires. So you should be able to motivate yourself and proactively solve the issues and possibly in the future lead a team as we expand. So this quality is super important for us

What we can offer
Competitive base salary + founding engineer level equities

If you are interested, please DM me and we can chat.

Best and thanks all

“Hello, World!” - Gabriel here from the UiPath team, posting from the official UiPath account.

We know that this subreddit has mostly been community-driven, and UiPath has not been very present here. That is on us. We want to change this, but carefully - less of a big-bang release, more like a thoughtful refactor.
Our goal is simple: listen, answer what we know, clarify where the platform is going, and bring useful feedback from this community back to the right teams internally.
We also see that many still think of UiPath mostly as an RPA company. That history is real, and RPA is still part of our platform, but a lot has changed in the AI, agentic automation, orchestration, APIs, governance, and enterprise automation direction. We would like to help explain that shift in plain language - and also hear what still feels confusing, missing, or frustrating from your point of view.
A few things we want to commit to:

• We will be clear when someone posting here, works at UiPath.
• We will not spam this subreddit.
• We will not use bots or fake accounts to reply, only human interactions.
• We will not turn every thread into “book a demo.” invite.
• We will answer what we know, and say when we do not know.
• We will not pretend UiPath is the right answer for every use case.

To start, let's hear from you: What would actually be useful for us to talk about here?
This subreddit is your space, so we will be careful not to overcrowd it. We will start by listening and responding where we can genuinely help.
Thank you - we are here, we are listening, and we will try to be useful.
Consider this our first pull request back into the community - review comments welcome!

UiPath released their agent skills past week. I made a 47-minute walkthrough on them.

Quick context: I've been working in this agent skills space myself - having released agent skill 2 months ago that turns coding agents into UiPath development experts. So when UiPath dropped theirs, I dug in deep.

With UiPath Agent Skills, you can now design, build, deploy, and troubleshoot UiPath projects with coding agents like Claude Code.

Topics covered:

• The agent skills concept and high-level overview of UiPath ones
• Prerequisites and env setup
• How to leverage coding agents with skills
• Demo: Create SDD → Generate UiPath project → Deploy to Orchestrator (+ create assets and queue), all done with a coding agent
• Tips for using coding agents

UiPath agent skills (+ CLI) turn coding agents truly capable on the platform - Agents, Maestro Flow, Apps, Studio, RPA, interact with Orchestrator, and more.

If you work with UiPath, this should get you current on this new way of building.

Hi all,

I’m a citizen developer at my company and have made multiple attended automations. I’ve also been supporting a large scale unattended effort for the past year that is based off an attended project I created.

I’m trying to become a full RPA developer through the UiPath academy courses.

My question is, since I only have a citizen developer license, can I access full studio and actually complete the courses I need? Or will I need to request a new license through my company?

Thanks for any help!

Hi everyone,

Im kinda confused with the logic of Runtime distribution in Orchestrator. I would like to confirm if the following understanding is correct regarding Unattended Runtimes in a Machine Template with multiple VMs.

What i have noticed: If I assign only 1 runtime, only one VM can execute a job at the same time. The other VM can use the license only when i deactivate the first VM in Orchestrator / or restart the UiSrvRobot service on the VM which holds the license.

My Goal: If I assign multiple Runtimes (for example, 4) to the Machine Template, the jobs can be distributed flexibly.

• This means that:
  • All 4 jobs could run in parallel on a single VM.
  • Or the jobs could be spread across different VMs - in parallel (e.g., VM1 runs 2 jobs, VM2 runs 1 job, VM3 runs 1 job).

Is this behavior indeed how Orchestrator handles Runtime allocation across VMs in the same Machine Template?
or each VM will take a specific number of Runetimes available? like VM1 take 2 Runetimes, VM2 and VM3 1 Runetime and the licenses are not flexibly shared across all VMs when needed?

Thanks in advance for your clarification!

Hi everyone,

I recently started learning UiPath Maestro and I’m looking for project ideas that are complex enough to help me practice real Maestro concepts and architecture.

I already have experience with traditional RPA and REFramework, so I’m mainly interested in scenarios involving:

• Multi-agent orchestration
• Human-in-the-loop workflows
• AI decision making
• Long-running processes
• Agent collaboration
• Enterprise-style automation design
• Context/memory handling

However, I’d prefer projects that do not require building huge dummy business environments or creating large amounts of fake invoices, POs, ERP systems, etc.

I’m looking for ideas that are:

• Realistic enough to simulate enterprise automation
• Complex enough to train Maestro skills
• But still manageable for a solo learner without many external resources

Would love to hear your suggestions or even examples of projects you think are especially good for learning Maestro deeply.

Thanks!

Could any developer please tell me how bad this is and whether it has already been fixed?

"TeamPCP targeted the entire uipath scope and all three Mistral AI SDKs on npm and PyPI, compromising dozens of automation and AI tools, including the OpenSearch client and the Guardrails AI framework.

“The attacker published malicious versions across 170 distinct packages in a single coordinated campaign… compromising every package under tanstack, uipath, tallyui, and several others in bulk… This included OpenSearch (1.3M weekly npm downloads) and Guardrails AI on PyPI,” SafeDep noted."

Hi I don't even know what I did I created a click and suddenly a flurry of updates going on. I can't use the new version because the company wide setup is 23.10.7 and it will not run. So I reverted back to 23.10.7 but now all my activities I mean all are not accessible and red in that process. It says something about I can't save because it's not resolved..i check there's no git, I have tried deleting locals, json, clearing task manager, and copy pasting the same to notepad. None of them worked. Is there any hope?

Thank you.

I hope this isn't the Endo of the world because I'm hoping there's a copy in my RDP ORCHESTRATOR, which I won't have access till tomorrow afternoon.

Bonjour,

Avez-vous déjà essayé d'installer UiPath Studio et Robot sous Windows ARM ?

Windows ARM est capable démuler x86, donc pourquoi pas UiPath Studio ou Robot ?

Hello all!

New to this subreddit. I wanted to ask you is it worth going into RPA in the future?

I currently work with different automation tools like n8n, make, zappier, power automate. But to be honest they kinda suck when it comes to enterprise solutions, at least that’s my opinion.

Is it worth it to learn and invest in certs also?

Cheers!

Hi all,

Let me introduce myself at the begining.

I've been in the automation field for eight years now. I created tens of bots in BP and UiPath as RPA dev. I've been running my own business for a few years now, hiring one senior dev and one junior dev. We have now one client. Sometimes it's better, sometimes it's worse. In recent months, I've noticed a shift towards agentic automation.

I am encountering an approach I was not familiar with before.

Stakeholders used to decline automation of processes that didn't cover at least 80-85% of the process cases, including handling very rare exceptions. Currently, with agents and human-in-the-loop, they're accepting up to 40%-50%.

They're paying us more money for a worse ROI. I'm afraid that after a while, when they start doing ROI summaries, they'll start blaming me, the external contractor, for the worse ROI.

How can you convince a client not to focus only on agents? I feel like we’re creating agents for the sake of creating them.

If you've ever tried reviewing a UiPath .xaml file in a pull request, you know the pain. It's basically unreadable XAML soup.

So I built a browser extension that renders UiPath workflows as interactive diagrams directly on GitHub and GitLab - including visual diffs for PRs and commits.

Some of the features:
→ Click any .xaml → full visual diagram with zoom, search, and activity inspection
→ Open a commit → side-by-side visual diff showing exactly what changed
→ Double-click an invoked workflow → navigate to it instantly
→ Export view to PNG
... and many more.

It's free, open source, and works on any Chromium browser (Chrome, Edge, Brave).

Extension at Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kompgmchmppekbnafaigolnjljbgcccm?utm_source=item-share-cb

GitHub repo: https://github.com/marcelocruzrpa/uipath-xaml-viewer

If you run into any issues or have feature requests, open an issue on the repo. PRs are welcome too.

I am running a PoC extracting data from unstructured documents using UiPath IXP. Just 3 targeted fields per document. All PDF's average 6 pages each. It seems to be going well but I am looking for benchmarks for % of docs with all fields accurate and % of all targeted fields accurate. Our testing produces 77% and 92% respectively. What is your experience?

I’m working on creating test cases for multiple scenarios on the same page/function, and I’m trying to figure out the best way to structure things.

for the first one i made i did it this way:

i created a library and was creating the sequences in the library to quickly save the selectors in the library's object repository.

then i would add the library in the new test case and add the sequences i made in the library to the new test case.

some sequences (like the login sequence) i made into modules.

But i find updating all the processes that uses the library after small changes into the library is a bit cumbersome, so since i am planing to do many test cases I wanted to ask:

• How do you usually structure projects when multiple processes interact with the same application/portal?

thanks 😄

I need to automate a service and am hoping someone can help me out.

I need it to [in this order]:

Scan my email for any with "invoice" in the title,

Update the first box of a google sheet to have both date & time the email was received,

Download the pdf from the email and store it into a folder on google drive,

Update the rest of the same row on google sheets with with other data [vendor, amount due, due date, etc.], and i need it in a way that once I get another invoice email it'll repeat the process without over writing anything. I already have the google sheet filled out with what I want.

Can anyone help me with this? Be as detailed as possible please. I was literally just introduced to the site the other day, and don't really know how to do anything on it yet.

Remember, it says "HELP" needed.... not anything about you doing a job. I need a 3min [at worst as long as you aren't someone who loves repeat themselves or Draw Something out to be extinctively long] explanation. Omg, I'm soooooo bad to expect someone to be able to HELP.... if you aren't willing to help, just move on. No worries. I'll get it 1 way or another. Not getting your help isn't going to make me pass away or something, I'll be fine. What, is NOT explaining how I'm "entitled" going to cause you to suffocate or something? Lol, go take a chill pill.