workflow-orchestration-patterns

workflow-orchestration-patterns is a skill for Claude Code from wshobson/agents. It costs 49 tokens per session (714 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to configuring a Temporal workflow, a durable process that can resume after failures across services and databases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for distributed transactions, bookings, orders, approvals, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and processes involving human decisions.
Why use it?
It helps keep long-running and multi-step operations reliable when individual steps fail or need to be retried.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the backend-development plugin — 9 skills, 1 command, 5 agents shipped together

About the project

Agentic Plugin Marketplace is a collection of reusable plugins, agents, skills, commands, and rules for coding-agent tools including Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, and GitHub Copilot. It is for developers assembling agentic workflows across multiple harnesses from shared Markdown sources, and the catalogue entries are examples or subsets of those workflow components.

wshobson/agents · 39,448 stars · on GitHub · sethhobson.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wshobson/agents/workflow-orchestration-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill workflow-orchestration-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshobson/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install backend-development, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 command, 5 agents.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 714 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00049 $0.00714
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00357
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00071

Measured 2d ago against content hash f4418f98189b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workflow-orchestration-patterns 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 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

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.

plugins/backend-development/skills/workflow-orchestration-patterns/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workflow Orchestration Patterns

Master workflow orchestration architecture with Temporal, covering fundamental design decisions, resilience patterns, and best practices for building reliable distributed systems.

When to Use Workflow Orchestration

Ideal Use Cases (Source: docs.temporal.io)

  • Multi-step processes spanning machines/services/databases
  • Distributed transactions requiring all-or-nothing semantics
  • Long-running workflows (hours to years) with automatic state persistence
  • Failure recovery that must resume from last successful step
  • Business processes: bookings, orders, campaigns, approvals
  • Entity lifecycle management: inventory tracking, account management, cart workflows
  • Infrastructure automation: CI/CD pipelines, provisioning, deployments
  • Human-in-the-loop systems requiring timeouts and escalations

When NOT to Use

  • Simple CRUD operations (use direct API calls)
  • Pure data processing pipelines (use Airflow, batch processing)
  • Stateless request/response (use standard APIs)
  • Real-time streaming (use Kafka, event processors)

Detailed patterns and worked examples

Detailed pattern documentation lives in references/details.md. Read that file when the navigation tier above is insufficient.

Best Practices

Workflow Design

  1. Keep workflows focused - Single responsibility per workflow
  2. Small workflows - Use child workflows for scalability
  3. Clear boundaries - Workflow orchestrates, activities execute
  4. Test locally - Use time-skipping test environment

Activity Design

  1. Idempotent operations - Safe to retry
  2. Short-lived - Seconds to minutes, not hours
  3. Timeout configuration - Always set timeouts
  4. Heartbeat for long tasks - Report progress
  5. Error handling - Distinguish retryable vs non-retryable

Common Pitfalls

Workflow Violations:

  • Using datetime.now() instead of workflow.now()
  • Threading or async operations in workflow code
  • Calling external APIs directly from workflow
  • Non-deterministic logic in workflows

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 99 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A f4418f98189b

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workflow-orchestration-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository wshobson/agents (39,448 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 714 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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