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Closes elastic/docs-content-internal#1159.

Summary

Two deliverables for the Workflows lookup-reference surface:

  1. New glossary at explore-analyze/workflows/reference/glossary.md — 48 terms with cross-links into the canonical reference pages.
  2. Cheat-sheet expansion — YAML snippet under each of the 10 "gotchas" that need one.

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Closes docs-content-internal#1159.

Two deliverables in one PR:

1. New explore-analyze/workflows/reference/glossary.md (48 terms).
   Adapted from the PM internal docset (elastic/workflows-internal-
   docs, reference/glossary.md). One H3 per term with per-term
   anchor; alphabetical groups (A-B, C, D-E, F-H, I-K, L, N-O, P-R,
   S, T, V-W, Y) mirror the PM source. Cross-links rewritten from
   PM-site relative paths to docs-content paths.

   Cut 7 terms not Workflows-specific (devops/security/observability
   acronyms): CI, EDR, NL authoring (experimental, not documented),
   SIEM, SLO, SOAR, SOC.

   Fixed version-prose in 5 PM-source entries (Composition, Event-
   driven trigger, Streams, Tech Preview, Trigger, workflows.failed)
   — moved version info to applies_to directives, dropped "in 9.4"
   qualifiers. Updated Terminal state to include timed_out (matches
   the lifecycle-table fix that shipped in PR #6669).

2. Cheat-sheet expansion: added a worked-example YAML snippet under
   each of the 10 gotchas that support one (gotcha 1 is purely UI-
   driven and has no YAML form). Each snippet is 3-12 lines, shows
   either wrong/right comparison or a single correct shape. Patterns
   anchored in existing reference pages, not invented.

TOC: added glossary.md to the Reference sub-parent in explore-
analyze/toc.yml; alphabetized the existing entries (cheat-sheet,
context-variables, glossary, liquid-filters, step-types).

Cross-links: glossary added to cheat-sheet's Related section, a
terminology pointer added near the top of pass-data-handle-errors,
and a Glossary signpost added to the workflows.md landing-page
Learn-more section.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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@benironside benironside marked this pull request as ready for review June 18, 2026 16:19
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Update the ES|QL reference link to the canonical
elasticsearch://reference/query-languages/esql.md path so the
strict docs build no longer fails on the redirect warning.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Summary: 3 warnings, 4 suggestions found

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explore-analyze/workflows/reference/cheat-sheet.md 309 Elastic.Spelling 'docset' is a possible misspelling.
explore-analyze/workflows/reference/glossary.md 180 Elastic.Spelling 'rrules' is a possible misspelling.
explore-analyze/workflows/reference/glossary.md 217 Elastic.Spelling 'docset' is a possible misspelling.
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explore-analyze/workflows/reference/glossary.md 97 Elastic.Semicolons Use semicolons judiciously.
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