Three stages that describe who presses the next button: Stage 1 I chat, Stage 2 I build, Stage 3 I orchestrate.
At stage 1 you start every step yourself, at stage 2 you press start and the rest runs. At stage 3 a trigger starts, several agents hand work to each other, and you approve. The stage follows from where a person presses: at every step, only at the start or only at approval. A calendar reminder does not start the workflow in Claude by itself; the stage depends on whether you then press start once or start every step yourself.
Example from Module 1
Every Friday at 08:00 the calendar reminds the project lead of the weekly report. She then puts the documents into the chat herself and starts every step. That is stage 1: the reminder does not change the fact that she presses every button in Claude herself.
Module 1: “Who presses the next button?”. In the Werkbank course room, with sign-in.