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Do AI agents pick Temporal?

How often agents choose Temporal when a developer needs background jobs & queues — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Temporal

#2 of 5 queues
5%Pick Rate
95% CI 2%10%

When developers ask an AI agent for queues, Temporal is picked 5% of the time — ranking #2 of 5 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 5% Named, not picked 7% Never surfaced 88%

Beaten by BullMQ (17%).

Awareness

4.5M package downloads / week

Known but not preferred — widely used, but agents pick competitors. That's a preference problem, not awareness.

0 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 468 URLs in Common Crawl

In the raw web crawl, but thin in the filtered corpus models actually train on — an awareness gap at the source.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

16.1M installs / month ▲ 11% MoM

Growing despite a low Pick Rate — winning the agent pick is upside, not a dependency.

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About Temporal

A durable execution platform for running reliable, long-running workflows in code.

Temporal lets developers write workflows as ordinary code that automatically survives failures, retries, and service restarts without manual state management. It handles the orchestration of distributed work — tasks, queues, timers, and retries — so application logic stays simple even when the underlying infrastructure is unreliable. It is aimed at backend engineers building anything from microservice orchestration to long-running business processes.

Where to start

Developers typically run a Temporal server (locally via Docker or via Temporal Cloud) and then use a language SDK to write and register workflow and activity code. The TypeScript SDK client sub-package is used to connect to the server and start or signal workflows programmatically.

Install

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