Temporal
Workflow & automationA durable execution engine that makes long-running, failure-prone workflows reliable by default.
Temporal lets you write a workflow as ordinary code and guarantees it runs to completion — across crashes, restarts, and retries. State is persisted automatically, so a process that waits days for an approval survives a deploy without losing its place.
That durability is exactly what agentic systems need: a multi-step agent run is a long, fallible process, and Temporal turns "the server restarted mid-run" from a disaster into a non-event.
Where it's ideally used
The right backbone when AI workflows are long-running, span external waits, and absolutely must not lose state when something restarts.
Where it doesn't fit
Heavy machinery for a quick, stateless automation — running a Temporal cluster is not worth it for a five-second task.