What is temporal-ai-agent AGENTS.md?

Contribution instructions for a Temporal AI Agent project, including its code layout, setup, services, and tests.

They are for understanding where workflows, tools, models, prompts, APIs, the frontend, and tests live, and for starting the project with Docker.

They give contributors the project context and commands needed to run and change the application safely.

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Borrowing it

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Copy the file

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/temporal-community/temporal-ai-agent

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temporal-ai-agent AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

AGENTS.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Temporal AI Agent Contribution Guide

Repository Layout

workflows/ - Temporal workflows including the main AgentGoalWorkflow for multi-turn AI conversations
activities/ - Temporal activities for tool execution and LLM interactions
tools/ - Native AI agent tool implementations organized by category (finance, HR, ecommerce, travel, etc.)
goals/ - Agent goal definitions organized by category, supporting both native and MCP tools
shared/ - Shared configuration including MCP server definitions
models/ - Data types and tool definitions used throughout the system
prompts/ - Agent prompt generators and templates
api/ - FastAPI server that exposes REST endpoints to interact with workflows
frontend/ - React-based web UI for chatting with the AI agent
tests/ - Comprehensive test suite for workflows and activities using Temporal's testing framework
enterprise/ - .NET worker implementation for enterprise activities (train booking)
scripts/ - Utility scripts for running workers and testing tools

Running the Application

Quick Start with Docker

# Start all services with development hot-reload
docker compose up -d

# Quick rebuild without infrastructure
docker compose up -d --no-deps --build api worker frontend

Default URLs:

Local Development Setup

Prerequisites:

# Install uv and Temporal server (MacOS)
brew install uv
brew install temporal

temporal server start-dev

Backend (Python):

# Quick setup using Makefile
make setup              # Creates venv and installs dependencies
make run-worker         # Starts the Temporal worker
make run-api            # Starts the API server

# Or manually:
uv sync
uv run scripts/run_worker.py    # In one terminal
uv run uvicorn api.main:app --reload   # In another terminal

Frontend (React):

make run-frontend       # Using Makefile

# Or manually:
cd frontend
npm install
npx vite

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 lines

Changes

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Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

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