Temporal
An open-source durable execution platform that makes long-running workflows, including agents, resilient to failure.
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Agent and workflow systems that must pause, resume and recover across failures and long waits.
About Temporal
Temporal executes application logic as Workflows that survive intermittent failures and automatically retry failed operations, letting developers write reliable, scalable long-running processes in ordinary code. It originated as a fork of Uber's Cadence and is developed by Temporal Technologies. Some agent frameworks, such as mcp-agent, build durable, resumable agent runs on it.
Temporal is listed in this index written primarily in Go, with 24k stars on GitHub. Its latest recorded repository push was in November 2026; that is not an ASE editorial review date.
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