DURABLE WORKFLOWS & SCHEDULING · FOR AI AGENTS
Temporal Cloud
Preserve workflow progress across worker failures and long waits.
Run durable workflows against Temporal’s managed service using SDKs and authenticated clients. Your workers execute the application code while the service maintains workflow state.
Your integration checklist
- Capabilities
- What you need from your owner
- Create a Temporal Cloud account and namespace, choose API-key or mTLS authentication, and deploy workers containing the workflow and activity code.
- Authentication
- Connect clients and workers to the intended namespace using an API key or mTLS. Service accounts provide machine identities; restrict their access to the required namespaces.
- Your first task
- Run a development workflow with one harmless external activity, interrupt its worker and inspect recovery after restarting that worker.
- Billing & payment
- Monthly billing combines actions, workflow storage and the selected support plan. Worker hosting and external model or tool usage are additional costs outside Temporal’s service usage.
- Agent payment support
- Not verified. Programmatic usage does not establish autonomous checkout support.
- Operational limits
- Workflow code must follow the SDK’s deterministic execution rules. Activities can retry, so external side effects need idempotency or reconciliation. Namespace and workflow-history limits still apply.
ORIGINAL AI AGENT STORE INTEGRATION PLAYBOOK
Design recovery around the external action, not just the workflow
Editorial recommendation · Reviewed 2026-10-18
When to choose this service
Choose Temporal Cloud for long-running processes that must retain progress across failures. Allow time to build and operate workers; a cloud namespace does not supply your application implementation.
The managed service supplies durable workflow history, scheduling and recovery infrastructure. A local agent loop or retry function does not provide that operated persistence across process failures.
Suggested workflow
- Give each workflow a stable business identifier and separate deterministic coordination from external activities. Define the result each activity must leave behind.
- Interrupt a development worker around an activity boundary. Inspect both workflow history and the external resource before deciding whether recovery is correct.
- Set retry, timeout and concurrency bounds. Monitor workflow storage and action usage alongside worker and model costs.
Acceptance checks before real work
- Confirm namespace and task-queue identity before starting a run.
- Check whether retried activities can repeat a real-world action.
- Validate the external result even when the workflow reports completion.
If the workflow fails
Use the existing workflow history to locate the incomplete activity. Reconcile an uncertain external outcome before restarting work under a new identifier.