Conductor .NET SDK

The .NET client SDK for Conductor/Orkes: workflow authoring, task workers, the REST client surface, and the durable AI-agent layer.

Package	Target	Covers
conductor-csharp	netstandard2.0	Workflows, workers, REST clients
conductor-ai	net8.0	Durable AI agents
conductor-ai-openai / -google-adk / -semantic-kernel	net8.0	Framework adapters

Start here

Doc	Covers
core-quickstart.md	Install, connect, and run a workflow with a worker.
server-setup.md	Getting a Conductor server running locally or in the cloud.
connection-authentication.md	Server URLs, auth keys, token handling.

Authoring

Doc	Covers
workflows.md	ConductorWorkflow, task types, registration.
workers.md	IWorkflowTask, the worker host, polling and tuning.
workflow-lifecycle.md	Start, pause, resume, terminate, retry, sub-workflows.
schedules-events.md	Cron schedules, event handlers, webhooks.
schema-client.md	Schema registry — not available in the .NET SDK.

Operating

Doc	Covers
observability.md	Metrics, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus.
reliability.md	Retries, timeouts, idempotency, failure modes.
deployment-scaling.md	Running workers in production, sizing poll loops.
security.md	Auth, secrets, credential injection, access control.
debugging.md	Diagnosing stuck workflows, unpolled tasks, auth failures.

Reference

Doc	Covers
api-map.md	Every resource API and what it maps to on the server.
compatibility.md	Framework targets, server versions, support matrix.
upgrading.md	Breaking changes, including the Agentspan → Conductor rename.
examples.md	Where the runnable examples live.
workflow-testing.md	Unit and integration testing workflows and workers.

AI agents

The durable AI-agent layer has its own documentation set: agents/README.md.

Documentation conventions

Doc	Covers
documentation-standard.md	How these docs are structured and written.
documentation-parity.md	Where this SDK's docs stand against the Java and Python SDKs.

Design decisions

Architectural decision records live in adr/. The domain glossary is CONTEXT.md at the repo root.

ADR	Decision
0001	CONDUCTOR_AGENT_* env naming, and why the Agentspan naming was removed outright rather than aliased.