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Welcome to your August 2025 update! The OpenAI Agents SDK now pairs with Temporal so you can run agents with real durability. Terraform support for Temporal Cloud is Generally Available, SCIM user management and namespace tags are in public preview, and the Python SDK picked up Task Queue Fairness and Nexus cancellation types.
For more information on these updates and other things we’ve been working on, just keep reading! And as always, we’d love to hear from you. Feel free to share feedback in our Community Slack, or on X (@temporalio).
Questions from the field#
- Jingcheng Kou asked about integrating LangGraph with Temporal. Temporal generally eliminates the need to use LangGraph, although LangChain can still be useful. Read the thread on our Community Slack.
- For more, read our recent blog post on using of graphs for agentic workflows.
- Khalid Karim asked about patterns for variable retry times for Activities. We suggest using our
nextRetryDelayfeature. You can do this in our Typescript SDK by throwing anApplicationFailureand settingnextRetryDelay:throwApplicationFailure.create({// …nextRetryDelay: '15s',});
You can find the documentation for that here and read the full thread on our Community Slack.
Recently shipped#
- OpenAI Agents SDK + Temporal integration is here! Use OpenAI’s primitives and best practices with Temporal’s durability to build production-ready AI agents.
- SCIM user management is now in Public Preview. Assign new users to groups within your identity provider, and they’ll be automatically added to Temporal.
- Temporal Cloud Terraform provider is now Generally Available, so you can use Terraform to automate Temporal Cloud resource management.
- Namespace tags are now in Public Preview. Attach tags to namespaces in Temporal Cloud to help operators organize, track, and manage namespaces more easily.
- Python SDK v1.16.0 is here, adding pre-release support for Task Queue Fairness and Nexus cancellation types.
- New quickstart guides are available for .NET, Python, Ruby, Java, TypeScript, and Go.
- The State of Development 2025 report is out. We talked to developers and compiled the most important insights about common roadblocks and how to overcome them.
Builder spotlight#
We’re excited to share Jason Steving’s AgentOfCode project as our inaugural builder spotlight! Jason created this project to iteratively solve Advent of Code puzzles and runs it as a Temporal Workflow.
Temporal’s platform makes it easy to inspect the full process the agent follows as it works through problems. Jason also configured timeouts and scheduled Activity execution to avoid overloading the Advent of Code server. Nice!
How to Temporal#
- New to Temporal? Start with our new quickstart guides.
- Learn how to use Temporal as part of long-running MCP tools.
- Explore how Temporal can be used for platform engineering.
Join us live#
Connect with our team at upcoming events this September to see live demos from real humans. We’d love to show you how we’re helping organizations build resilient, scalable applications.
- September 8–10 — Finovate Fall, New York City, NY: Stop by our booth for interactive demos on reliable workflow orchestration, fault-tolerant microservices, and scalable stateful app development without the operational burden.
- September 8–10 — Disney Data and Analytics Conference, Orlando, FL: Visit Booth 319 to explore live demos, connect with our team, and see how Temporal advances data-driven innovation.
- September 17 — MongoDB.Local, New York City, NY: Catch us at our booth for demos showing how to orchestrate MongoDB transactions, recover seamlessly from failures, and scale stateful apps without added complexity.