workflow-orchestration-patterns
Design Temporal Workflow Orchestration
Distributed workflows are difficult to make durable, deterministic, and recoverable. This skill gives Claude, Codex, and Claude Code practical Temporal patterns for reliable orchestration.
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Using "workflow-orchestration-patterns". A team wants to orchestrate inventory reservation, payment capture, and fulfillment.
Expected outcome:
- Recommended pattern: saga with compensation.
- Register inventory release before reservation, refund before payment capture, and cancellation before fulfillment.
- Use idempotency keys for every activity.
Using "workflow-orchestration-patterns". A workflow uses current system time and direct API calls inside orchestration logic.
Expected outcome:
- Move direct API calls into activities.
- Replace system time with deterministic workflow time.
- Add tests that replay workflow history after code changes.
Using "workflow-orchestration-patterns". A product team needs human approval before account changes expire.
Expected outcome:
- Use the async callback pattern with signals.
- Set an approval timeout and define the expiration path.
- Record approval state through workflow queries.
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sickn33-workflow-orchestration-patterns
2026-08-21
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2026-08-21
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Why this score Evidence Confidence: HighWhat You Can Build
Design order fulfillment workflows
Use saga steps and compensation rules for inventory, payment, and fulfillment services.
Plan resilient infrastructure automation
Define workflow boundaries, child workflows, retries, and monitoring for deployment pipelines.
Review Temporal architecture decisions
Check workflow determinism, activity idempotency, and long-running process boundaries before implementation.
Try These Prompts
I am new to Temporal. Help me decide whether my process should use a workflow. Ask for missing goals, steps, and failure rules.
Review this process: [describe process]. Identify workflow decisions, activity calls, retries, and idempotency requirements.
Design a Temporal saga for [business process]. Include forward steps, compensation steps, failure handling, and verification checks.
Review this Temporal design: [paste architecture]. Find determinism risks, versioning concerns, scaling limits, and missing operational metrics.
Best Practices
- Keep workflow code deterministic and move side effects into activities.
- Register compensation before each saga step executes.
- Set activity timeouts, retries, heartbeats, and idempotency keys deliberately.
Avoid
- Calling external APIs directly from workflow code.
- Using system time, random values, or global state in workflow logic.
- Leaving activities without timeouts or retry classification.