Durable Execution for AI Agents: Temporal vs a Plain State Store
Durable execution for AI agents: when Temporal earns its keep, when a plain state store is enough, and why resuming can be the dangerous part.
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Durable execution for AI agents: when Temporal earns its keep, when a plain state store is enough, and why resuming can be the dangerous part.
Vercel just open-sourced durable-harness to keep Claude Code, Codex and other harnesses alive through crashes and timeouts. The pattern underneath matters more than the package: a step log, a queue, and tools that know whether they can run twice.
In my last post, I walked through one problem where durable execution fit naturally. This time I want...
In my last post, I introduced Durable Execution (or "Code-First Workflows") as a fast-emerging...

How Temporal's Rust SDK 1.0 ran on an ESP32-S3 conference badge: four compatibility patches, a trivia game, and the sleep bug that surprised a booth.

Shy Ruparel tried an AI agent to turn STL files into editable CAD. What worked was less glamorous: generate candidates, measure them, and validate.
Distributed systems fail in partial and unpredictable ways. A payment workflow that processes a...

How Temporal powered Ignition, the workflow system that flashed 2,300 conference badges in two days using durable execution and retries.
Durable AI agents without Temporal: exactly-once workflows on Postgres with DBOS...
Temporal Swift SDK: build durable workflows in server-side Swift (2026) Summary. Apple...

Shy Ruparel built an AI pipeline to translate Japanese toy manuals. Durable Execution keeps OCR, retries, and cleanup from starting over.

Where idle time hides inside agent harnesses, why it dominates your bill, and how durable execution drops idle cost to zero.