Temporal Plugin for Claude Code

May 1, 2026 · View on GitHub

This repository provides a Claude Code plugin for working with Temporal — developing applications, using the CLI, managing server, and working with Temporal Cloud.

Warning

This plugin is in Public Preview, and will continue to evolve and improve. We would love to hear your feedback - positive or negative - over in the Community Slack, in the #topic-ai channel

Installation

From inside Claude Code, run:

  1. /plugin marketplace add temporalio/claude-temporal-plugin
  2. /plugin install temporal@temporal-marketplace

Then run /reload-plugins to activate the plugin in the current session.

Note: We recommend enabling automatic updates using the interactive /plugin menu

Alternative: interactive install

  1. Run /plugin to open the plugin manager
  2. Select Marketplaces
  3. Choose temporal-marketplace from the list
  4. Select Enable auto-update (recommended) or Disable auto-update
  5. Install the temporal plugin
  6. Run /reload-plugins

What's Included

  • temporal-developer skill — Comprehensive guidance for developing Temporal applications: creating workflows, activities, and workers; handling signals, queries, and updates; debugging non-determinism errors; implementing saga patterns, versioning strategies, and testing approaches across Python, TypeScript, Go, and Java SDKs.

Standalone Skill

The skill content is derived from temporalio/skill-temporal-developer. If you only need the skill without the plugin wrapper, you can install it directly from that repo.

Other Coding Agents

License

MIT