Workflow Orchestration Patterns

Workflow Orchestration Patterns is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by wshobson in agents.

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Install Workflow Orchestration Patterns

Copy Workflow Orchestration Patterns into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/main/plugins/backend-development/skills/workflow-orchestration-patterns ~/.claude/skills/workflow-orchestration-patterns

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/backend-development/skills/workflow-orchestration-patterns/SKILL.md in wshobson/agents
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/workflow-orchestration-patterns
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Workflow Orchestration Patterns does

Workflow Orchestration Patterns provides guidance for designing durable Temporal workflows, covering workflow vs activity separation, saga patterns, state management, and determinism constraints. Use it when building long-running processes, distributed transactions, or microservice orchestration.

Workflow Orchestration Patterns is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Workflow Orchestration Patterns comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-ai, agents, ai-agents and anthropic.

Documentation

README

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Frequently asked about Workflow Orchestration Patterns

What else does wshobson publish alongside Workflow Orchestration Patterns?
Workflow Orchestration Patterns is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from wshobson/agents, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Design Principles, Architecture Patterns and Before You Build. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Workflow Orchestration Patterns does, and is maintained by wshobson in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the wshobson/agents page.
How does Workflow Orchestration Patterns compare to other Automation skills?
Workflow Orchestration Patterns ranks #49 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Workflow Orchestration Patterns against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.