Production Automation Failing? Check for Hardcoded URLs

A workflow built and tested against a local or staging URL will silently keep pointing at that same URL in production if the address was typed directly into a node instead of referenced as a variable — and it often looks like a mysterious failure rather than the simple config mismatch it actually is.

This is a documented, common failure mode — demo and testing environments hide exactly this kind of environment-specific detail, which is why things that work perfectly in testing can break the moment they're pointed at real, production traffic.

The fix:

reference URLs, API endpoints, and environment-specific values through environment variables, not hardcoded strings — so switching between local, staging, and production is a config change, not a find-and-replace through your workflow.