When should I use workflow orchestration instead of standard APIs?

Use orchestration for multi-step processes spanning different services, long-running tasks that must survive restarts, and complex business logic requiring automatic state persistence.

Why is determinism critical for workflows?

Temporal recovers from failures by replaying workflow code. If the code is non-deterministic (e.g., uses random numbers or direct API calls), the replay will diverge from the recorded history, causing a failure.

How does this skill help with distributed transactions?

It provides patterns for the Saga logic, which allows you to register compensation actions for every step of a process, ensuring a clean rollback if a multi-service transaction fails.

What is the core rule of Temporal workflow design?

The fundamental rule is that Workflows must be deterministic (handling logic and decisions), while Activities handle all non-deterministic external interactions like API calls and database writes.

Workflow Orchestration Patterns

Name: Workflow Orchestration Patterns
Author: HermeticOrmus

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生産性とワークフロー

Designs and implements resilient, durable distributed workflows using Temporal patterns and architectural best practices.

概要

This skill equips Claude with the architectural expertise required to build reliable distributed systems using the Temporal orchestration engine. It provides comprehensive guidance on separating orchestration logic (Workflows) from external side effects (Activities), implementing distributed transactions via the Saga pattern, and ensuring system resilience through robust error handling and idempotency. It is an essential resource for developers building complex, multi-step business processes that require guaranteed state preservation, long-running execution, and automatic recovery from infrastructure failures.

主な機能

Configures advanced resilience patterns including exponential backoff and activity heartbeats
Enforces strict separation between deterministic orchestration and side-effect activities
Provides guidance on state management and determinism constraints to ensure reliable replays
Architects scalable fan-out/fan-in patterns for high-throughput parallel task execution
Implements the Saga pattern for reliable distributed transactions and compensation logic
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ユースケース

Orchestrating complex e-commerce checkouts with payment, inventory, and shipping steps
Implementing human-in-the-loop approval processes that span days or weeks
Managing long-running infrastructure automation and multi-stage CI/CD pipelines

概要

主な機能

Configures advanced resilience patterns including exponential backoff and activity heartbeats
Enforces strict separation between deterministic orchestration and side-effect activities
Provides guidance on state management and determinism constraints to ensure reliable replays
Architects scalable fan-out/fan-in patterns for high-throughput parallel task execution
Implements the Saga pattern for reliable distributed transactions and compensation logic
0 GitHub stars

ユースケース

Orchestrating complex e-commerce checkouts with payment, inventory, and shipping steps
Implementing human-in-the-loop approval processes that span days or weeks
Managing long-running infrastructure automation and multi-stage CI/CD pipelines