Cadence: Scalable Workflow Automation
From the repo · “Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.”
Build and run complex workflows that run in the background.
"A founder wants to automate a welcome process for new customers signing up on Stripe. They use Cadence to build a workflow that adds a new customer to Notion, sends a welcome email via Mailgun, and updates their customer profile. When a new customer signs up, the workflow executes in the background."
- •When you have tasks that take a long time to complete and need to be retried upon failure
- •When you need to manage complex workflows with multiple tasks and dependencies
- •When you require a highly available and durable system to handle your business logic
cadence workflow create --task_list=main --workflow_id=example --input='{"key":"value"}'Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.
Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/cadence && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/cadence/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/cadence/SKILL.mdOpens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.
Cadence: Scalable Workflow Automation is a very large Go project (~740k lines across 2285 code files, plus 13 test files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit this month, Apache-2.0 license, has a test suite.
- 1README.mdStart here — what it does and how to install it
- 2AGENTS.mdThe instructions the AI actually follows
- 3cmd/bench/main.goWhere the program starts running
- 4go.modDependencies and the commands it exposes
- 5internal/tools/tools.goInside internal/ — the main logic begins here
Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.
Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/cadence && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/cadence/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/cadence/SKILL.mdOpens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.
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