Temporal

Rather than supplying the tools, Temporal makes the customer's agent framework durable. Its integrations catalog lists the Vercel AI SDK, Google ADK, LangGraph, LangChain Deep Agents, Mastra, the OpenAI Agents SDK, Strands and Pydantic AI, each running the agent as Workflows with model and tool calls as Activities, and any Activity can call an outside system. The tools, credentials and connectors belong to the framework and the customer's code; no connector catalog or authenticated action framework of Temporal's own is documented.

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Workflows written as code in seven SDK languages orchestrate Activities with retry policies and timeouts, Child Workflows, Signals, Updates and Queries, durable Timers, Schedules and Nexus calls across namespaces. Temporal is a workflow engine, and its AI cookbook runs multi agent orchestration (Google ADK) as Workflows.

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No retrieval structure Temporal maintains over the customer's corpus is documented. Its AI cookbook runs agent loops, deep research and tool calling as Workflows, but indexing and retrieval belong to the customer's code or framework. The Temporal Docs MCP server searches Temporal's own documentation, not the customer's.

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Durable waits that Temporal ships let the customer's code hold for a person: Signals and Updates deliver a human's decision to a running Workflow, and durable Timers bound how long it waits. The AI cookbook's human in the loop agent and its post LLM guardrail with hard rule overrides show the pattern. The approval logic, approver identity and guardrail rules live in the customer's code, and no approval step or review surface of Temporal's own is documented.

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Compliance and access are both documented on Temporal's own pages. Compliance: the security page states Temporal Cloud is SOC 2 Type II certified and compliant with GDPR and HIPAA, links a Trust Center, and publishes a GDPR-aligned DPA. Access: the pricing page lists user roles, service accounts, API keys, audit logging and SSO via SAML on every Cloud plan, with SCIM on Business and Enterprise, and the Cloud docs cover roles and permissions and custom roles. Customer-held encryption through a Codec Server means Temporal cannot read payloads.

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Each Workflow is recorded step by step in its event history, browsable in the Web UI and queryable through visibility. Temporal Cloud streams audit logs to AWS Kinesis or GCP Pub/Sub, exports Workflow event histories to S3 or GCS, and exposes metrics that the integrations catalog sends to Datadog, Grafana, Elastic and ClickStack, with LangSmith and Langfuse tracing LLM calls inside Workflows. Retained storage is billed and sized by plan.

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Every step lands in the Workflow's event history, so after a failure the Workflow's state is rebuilt by replay and the code carries on from the restored outputs. That is real state, but it lets the same run finish and carries nothing into the next run. The history is browsable in the Web UI. Temporal's AI documentation (its cookbook and integrations) presents no keyed, cross run state store or long lived per entity Workflow as agent memory.

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Self hosting and region choice are both documented. The open source server self hosts in the customer's own infrastructure under a self hosted guide, and Temporal Cloud publishes its region list across AWS and Google Cloud with multi region and multi cloud replication and migration between regions.

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Temporal ships ready made starting points: an AI cookbook of runnable examples (agentic loops with Claude and OpenAI, deep research, a durable MCP server, human in the loop, multi agent orchestration with Google ADK, agents on the OpenAI Agents SDK, Strands and the Vercel AI SDK), sample repositories across its SDKs, and agent skills and a Claude Code plugin for coding agents. These are examples a developer builds from, not a catalog of agents a buyer adopts.

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Work wakes without a caller: Schedules start Workflow Executions on calendar or interval specs, and running Workflows receive Signals and Updates from outside systems and resume on durable Timers.

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Temporal runs no model the buyer chooses. Model calls are Activities in the customer's code or framework (the cookbook calls Claude, OpenAI and Gemini, and one recipe routes through LiteLLM, which is the customer's library), and Temporal records them whatever the model is. Being model agnostic because the model is someone else's is not a selection surface of the vendor's own.

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Official SDKs in seven languages, the Temporal CLI, the server's gRPC API, and service accounts and API keys for Temporal Cloud make the platform callable from outside. The Temporal Docs MCP server searches documentation only.

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A testing suite covers the customer's Workflow code: a test environment with time skipping, mocked Activities, and replay testing that runs new code against recorded event histories to catch nondeterministic changes. That tests whether a code change is safe to deploy, not how well an agent performs, and replay based debugging is also documented. No evaluation harness, scored test cases or quality gate on agent output is documented as Temporal's own; Braintrust in the integrations catalog is a third party.

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No browser or desktop the agent operates, and no browser-automation environment of Temporal's own, is documented; Temporal runs the customer's Workflow and Activity code on the customer's workers.

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