Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with associated with unified pipeline flow with common and phase-specific paths are described. In one embodiment, a method includes accepting, through a graphical user interface, a setting of a phase-specific link type for a link between nodes of a pipeline, wherein the phase-specific link type indicates that the link is associated with a particular phase; accepting, through the graphical user interface, a selection to execute the pipeline for the phase; parsing the pipeline to determine an execution set of nodes for execution in the phase based on the nodes being connected with links having either the link type or a default link type common to all phases; and executing the pipeline for the phase by executing the execution set of nodes, and not executing nodes not included in the set of nodes.