Durable Execution
Building durable agents with Temporal and AI SDK by Vercel

Building durable agents with Temporal and AI SDK by Vercel

1/20/2026

What this post added

This post details the integration of Temporal's Durable Execution with the AI SDK by Vercel. It introduces a plugin (`@temporalio/ai-sdk`) that wraps AI SDK calls (like `generateText`) in Temporal Activities, providing automatic retries and state persistence for LLM interactions. It also explains how to implement tool execution within Temporal Workflows by proxying Activities, ensuring that external API calls made by AI agents are also durable. A real-world example of a daily news briefing agent demonstrates how to combine these durable LLM calls and Activity executions for complex, multi-phase AI workflows.

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