
11/12/2025
What this post added
This post clarifies that Temporal's deterministic Workflow requirement does not preclude building dynamic AI agents. It explains that the separation of deterministic Workflows (orchestration) and non-deterministic Activities (LLM calls, tool invocations) is key. The post details how Temporal's Durable Execution allows AI agents to make runtime decisions based on LLM outcomes, ensuring that if a failure occurs, the agent can resume from its last consistent state without re-executing LLM calls or diverging from its original path. It provides code examples and architectural diagrams to illustrate this concept, highlighting how Temporal enables non-deterministic agents with durable execution.