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Workflow Streams: Live interactivity for agents and other applications

Jun 17, 2026
Workflow Streams: Live interactivity for agents and other applications
SummaryAI, from the source post

This post introduces Workflow Streams, a new durable abstraction built on Temporal's primitives (Workflows, Signals, Updates, Queries) for real-time, interactive communication. It details the implementation using Signals for external publishers and Updates for subscriber polling, emphasizing exactly-once semantics, batching (default 2s, 100ms for AI), and handling Continue-as-New. It also covers integrations with AI agent frameworks and provides a complete example using SSE for UI updates.