From agent zoo to agent orchestra: The benefits of Temporal as your enterprise agentic control plane

This post details how Temporal can be used as an enterprise agentic control plane, extending the concept of Durable Execution to AI agents. It categorizes agents into Conversational, Event Stream Processors, Ambient, and Agent-to-Agent interactions, and explains how Temporal Workflows provide essential features like guardrails, human-machine interaction, versionability, durability, cost management, visibility, and auditability for these agent types. It introduces Temporal Nexus as a mechanism for coordinating agents across namespaces and discusses Workflow Versioning for managing changes in AI agent logic. The post also touches upon operational realities like LLM cost management and retry policies.