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Give your AI coding agent Temporal expertise with the Temporal Developer Skill and real-time documentation access with the Temporal docs MCP server.

Temporal Developer Skill​

The Temporal Developer Skill gives your AI coding agent expert-level knowledge of Temporal's programming model — workflow determinism rules, activity patterns, retry policies, error handling, testing strategies, worker configuration, versioning, and common gotchas.

It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and any agent that supports Skills.

Claude Code Plugin​

/plugin marketplace add temporalio/agent-skills

Then open the plugin manager, select the marketplace, and install temporal-developer.

npx skills​

Works with Cline and other agents:

npx skills add https://github.com/temporalio/skill-temporal-developer

Manual​

git clone https://github.com/temporalio/skill-temporal-developer.git ~/.claude/skills/temporal-developer

Restart your coding agent after installing.

Temporal Docs MCP Server​

Connect Temporal documentation directly to your AI assistant for accurate, up-to-date answers about Temporal. The Temporal docs MCP server gives AI tools real-time access to our documentation, so responses draw from current docs rather than training data.

The server requires anonymous authentication using any Google account to enforce rate limits and prevent abuse. We cannot see nor do we collect any contact information from this.

Claude Code​

Add the Temporal docs MCP server to Claude Code with a single command:

claude mcp add --scope user --transport http temporal-docs https://temporal.mcp.kapa.ai

This adds the server globally so it's available in all your projects.

To add it to a specific project only (stored in .mcp.json):

claude mcp add --transport http temporal-docs https://temporal.mcp.kapa.ai

After adding, restart Claude Code and run /mcp to authenticate with your Google account.

Claude Desktop​

  1. Open Claude Desktop settings
  2. Navigate to Settings > Connectors
  3. Add a new MCP server with the URL: https://temporal.mcp.kapa.ai

Other MCP-compatible tools​

For any tool that supports the Model Context Protocol, use the following server URL:

https://temporal.mcp.kapa.ai

Configuration format varies by tool. Here's a generic JSON configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "temporal-docs": {
      "transport": "http",
      "url": "https://temporal.mcp.kapa.ai"
    }
  }
}