# temporalio/temporal

Temporal service

Repository: https://github.com/temporalio/temporal
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/temporal
Homepage: https://docs.temporal.io
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: workflows, workflow-engine, workflow-automation, workflow-management, workflow-management-system, distributed-systems, golang, service-bus, service-fabric, microservices-architecture, microservice-framework, microservice-orchestration, cronjob-scheduler, distributed-cron, orchestrator, durable-execution
Last push: 2026-08-27T00:26:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 97/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 92, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2513, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 56, "gap_med": 9, "n_releases_24m": 36}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 22549, forks 1839 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:32.706877+00:00)

## What it is
Temporal is an open-source durable execution platform that runs application logic as resilient Workflows, automatically handling failures, retries, and resumption after crashes or outages. It is a mature fork of Uber's Cadence with SDKs for Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, and more, plus a CLI and Web UI.

## Use cases
- orchestrate long-running business processes like order fulfillment and payment processing
- run distributed cron jobs and scheduled workflows
- build crash-proof AI agent pipelines that survive failures
- coordinate microservices with reliable retries and timeouts
- execute multi-step workflows that resume after infrastructure outages
- replace fragile in-house job schedulers and state machines

## When to choose
- you need workflows that reliably survive crashes, restarts, and outages over hours, days, or years
- you are orchestrating microservices or long-running business processes with retries and compensation
- you need durable execution for AI agents or multi-step pipelines
- you want a battle-tested, actively maintained platform with SDKs in many languages

## When to avoid
- you only need simple one-shot background jobs without durability guarantees
- you cannot operate a stateful server cluster and don't want to use Temporal Cloud
- your workflows are short-lived and a simple queue or cron scheduler suffices
- you need a lightweight library embedded in a single process rather than a platform

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: stable
- function: workflow-automation, scheduling, microservices, concurrency, agent-framework, developer-tools
- domain: microservices, backend, developer-tools
- platform: go, self-hosted, cloud, cross-platform
- tags: durable-execution, workflow-engine, orchestration, reliability, fault-tolerance, distributed-cron, temporal, automation, ai-agents, docker

## Member repositories
- temporalio/temporal (main) score 97

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:32.706877+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:57:08.555241+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/temporalio/temporal (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:32.706877+00:00, sha 243da0134c3c)
  - homepage: https://docs.temporal.io (fetched 2026-08-29T07:55:21.040823+00:00, sha 42950598b19c)
  - site_page: https://docs.temporal.io/quickstarts (fetched 2026-08-29T07:55:21.050064+00:00, sha 9c3cc08c3480)
  - site_page: https://docs.temporal.io/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T07:55:21.052212+00:00, sha 3263c35b3917)
  - site_page: https://docs.temporal.io/develop (fetched 2026-08-29T07:55:21.054188+00:00, sha 30f6170a3633)
  - site_page: https://temporal.io/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T07:55:21.056006+00:00, sha 40b298b473aa)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.