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Automate with Temporal

Get reliable workflow automation with Temporal, a tool.
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What it is

You run the Temporal service to manage the execution and scheduling of long-running tasks in your applications.

Real use case example

"A founder building an e-commerce platform with multiple microservices uses Temporal to schedule and orchestrate tasks that update customer inventory, send notifications, and process payments. They set up Temporal to run on their local machine, define the task workflow in Go, and then deploy their microservices to Kubernetes. The outcome: a more responsive and scalable platform."

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When to use it
  • โ€ขWhen you need to automate a business process that involves multiple steps and requires high reliability
  • โ€ขWhen you want to decouple your application's workflow logic from its business logic
  • โ€ขWhen you need to handle retries, timeouts, and other error-handling scenarios in your workflow
Ready-to-paste prompt
tctl workflow run --tasklist HelloTaskList --workflowid HelloWorkflowID --wt HelloWorkflowType
Heads up: Make sure you have Go 1.17 or later installed, as Temporal requires this version or later to run
Saves to your device
Use with Claude
New

Skip the builder โ€” one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Technical setup

Expect 20โ€“40 minutes in a terminal โ€” or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly โ€” no install
Claude Code
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/temporal && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/temporal/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/temporal/SKILL.md
Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go โ€” no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)
claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How Automate with Temporal works
Codeflow
Free to inspect

Automate with Temporal is a very large Go project (~716k lines across 2771 code files, plus 348 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, MIT license, has a test suite.

Size
Very large codebase
~716k lines ยท 2771 code files ยท days to read โ€” use, don't read
Setup
Developer setup
A real software project. Use it via its install path; don't expect to read it all.
Runs on
Go
No API keys detected
Go 99%
Where to start reading
  1. 1
    README.md
    Start here โ€” what it does and how to install it
  2. 2
    AGENTS.md
    The instructions the AI actually follows
  3. 3
    temporal/server.go
    Where the program starts running
  4. 4
    go.mod
    Dependencies and the commands it exposes
  5. 5
    temporal/cluster_metadata_loader_test.go
    Inside temporal/ โ€” the main logic begins here
What's in each folder
temporal/Core code โ€” the actual logic12 files
service/Backend / API1277 files
api/Backend / API120 files
client/Frontend / UI52 files
components/Frontend / UI32 files
cmd/Command-line entry points31 files
docs/Documentation65 files
common/Folder1232 files
READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksMIT licenseUpdated this month
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Details
Creator
temporalio
Language
Go
Category
automation
Published
10/16/2019

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