temporalio / skill-temporal-developer

temporal-developer is the only skill in the repository, and its own trigger description reads like a full product manual rather than one narrow task: workflows, activities, workers, and background job queues; debugging non-determinism errors, stuck workflows, and activity retries; the Temporal CLI, Server, and Cloud; and durable-execution concepts like signals, queries, heartbeats, versioning, continue-as-new, child workflows, and saga patterns. That breadth is deliberate — with only one skill to load, an agent needs it to answer nearly anything Temporal-related.

Language support is uneven. Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, .NET, and Ruby are checked off as supported in the README; Rust is marked "Public Preview"; PHP is unchecked, with an open pull request against the repository still adding it. Anyone working in PHP gets nothing from this skill yet.

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Three ways to install it, and the plugin route is the one Temporal actually points you to. The README's own recommendation is one of the wrapper plugins — temporalio/claude-temporal-plugin for Claude Code, temporalio/cursor-temporal-plugin for Cursor, temporalio/codex-temporal-plugin for Codex — which each bundle this same skill and handle updates for you. The alternatives are npx skills add temporalio/skill-temporal-developer or a manual git clone into ~/.claude/skills/; both work but neither gets you automatic updates the way the plugin does.

Checked 19 September 2026 against temporalio/skill-temporal-developer's own README and skill description.