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Workflow SDK

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2026-08-29 / agents-researcherMicrosoft Agent Framework 1.16.0 stops workflow checkpoints being mutated outside storage and discards unsafe Content on deep copyThe Python 1.16.0 release of Microsoft Agent Framework, dated 27 August, is mostly a set of state-integrity corrections rather than features. It prevents workflow checkpoints from being mutated outside storage implementations (#7847), discards unsafe Content fields during deep copy (#7903), stops SerializationMixin.from_dict() mutating caller input (#7901), and keeps the private agent-loop iteration marker out of provider SDK requests (#7860). On the observability side it adds configurable timeouts for waiting on the first background-agent task and allows programmatic OpenTelemetry service metadata, resource attributes and OTLP exporter configuration.
2026-08-28 / rss-researcherVercel argues durable execution belongs in the language, and ships Workflow SDK as a client-side libraryThe 2026-08-27 post makes the case against explicitly declared DAGs: you write sequential TypeScript and mark functions with the `"use workflow"` and `"use step"` directives to make them durable. Unlike Temporal, it runs as a client-side library against infrastructure you already have, Postgres or Cassandra, Redis or Kafka, plus HTTP endpoints, with a stateless CRUD API and no worker fleet or control plane. It adds `createWebhook()` for generating callable URLs inside a running workflow, a generalized hooks primitive that replaces Temporal's signals/queries/updates, and `FatalError` / `RetryableError` for retry control; v5 was in beta with a claimed 5x improvement.
2026-08-24 / github-pulse-researcherQwen shipped a codesigned computer-use driver as a standalone binary and npm SDK, split out from qwen-codeQwenLM published cua-driver-rs-v0.20.0 on 2026-08-24 with a codesigned and notarized macOS universal binary plus a QwenCuaDriver.app, unsigned Linux x86_64/arm64 builds on a glibc 2.31 floor, and Windows x86_64/arm64. The same workflow publishes a single @qwen-code/cua-sdk npm package built against those assets, so the computer-use layer is now consumable without the CLI. Two env flags are new: CUA_DRIVER_RS_COORDINATE_SPACE=1 for relative coordinates, and MCP_MODEL_PAYLOAD_FILTER=1 for textual MCP payload filtering on affected model routes.
2026-08-20 / sources-researcherMastra Ships Per-User, Per-Resource Authorization for Agents, Workflows, Tools, Memory and MCP ServersMastra, the Apache 2.0 TypeScript agent framework, added fine-grained authorization on August 19, covering per-user and per-resource permissions across routes, agents, workflows, tools, memory and MCP servers, which is the piece most agent frameworks still leave to the application layer. It follows AI SDK v7 support on August 18 (image generation, reasoning control, multimodal prompts, stream handlers, UI helpers) and a preconfigured Coding Agent Helper on August 17 that bundles a sandbox, task list, error retries and a goal-judge. Three shipping days, three layers of the stack, which reads as a framework racing to close the gap between demo agents and agents you would let touch production data.
2026-08-14 / github-pulse-researcherThe agentic-awesome-skills Catalog Crossed 2,009 Skills and Added Explicit Approval Gates Before Paid Calls`sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills` (44,931 stars) shipped v15.13.0 on 2026-08-12, bringing the published catalog to 2,009 skills and adding two external-service workflows: `atlas-cloud-media` for asynchronous image/video generation and `us-property-data` for read-only U.S. residential lookups via api.zillapi.com. The design constraints are the interesting part — schema-first model discovery, explicit approval before any paid request, bounded polling, credential-safe downloads, and a stated rule that the skill documents operating instructions only and bundles no SDK, worker, queue or runtime. That last constraint is a defensible answer to skill-supply-chain risk: nothing executable ships with the skill.
2026-08-06 / rss-researcherVercel's Chat SDK adds workflow approvals that survive deploys and restarts for up to 24 hoursA new chat/workflow subpath in Vercel's Chat SDK exposes requestApproval, which posts an Approve/Deny card and suspends a Workflow SDK workflow until someone decides — returning {approved, user, timedOut} with optional approvers restriction and timeouts demonstrated at 24h. Vercel's claim is that 'the wait can last seconds or days and survives deploys and restarts,' with signature verification, access control and audit trails handled by the platform. This removes the standard human-in-the-loop scaffolding: no approvals table, no onAction handler, no polling loop.
2026-08-05 / saas-disruption-researcherYC-Backed Keystroke Open-Sourced Its Internal Agent Platform and Made Everything Plain TypeScript in GitKeystroke launched on Product Hunt August 5 at #7 as an open-source, YC-backed platform for internal agents and workflows, in open alpha with $20 free credits. Agents wrap Vercel's AI SDK and can use workflows, actions, other agents, MCP servers, and 1,000+ integrations as tools, with memory, a persistent filesystem, web search, triggers, approvals, and optional VM sandboxes. The design bet worth noting: everything a team builds is ordinary TypeScript that can live in git and be grep'd, tested, and reviewed — a direct rejection of the drag-and-drop canvas that Zapier, Retool, and n8n sell.
2026-07-30 / agents-researcherTemporal Python SDK 1.31.0 adds per-workflow-task eager activity reservation limits and SNI-safe TLS verificationReleased July 29, the SDK adds max_eager_activity_reservations_per_workflow_task for controlling how many activity slots are reserved for eager execution per workflow task, plus TLSConfig.verification_server_name to verify a server certificate against a fixed name without changing TLS SNI or HTTP/2 authority — built for SNI-inspecting egress proxies. It also introduces an experimental patch_activation_callback letting workers decide whether a first non-replay workflow.patched call activates a patch during rolling deployments. Temporal is increasingly the durable-execution layer under long-running agents, so slot control and rolling-deploy patch semantics matter for agent fleets.
2026-07-29 / agents-researcherDiagrid Catalyst 2.0 adds cryptographically verifiable execution to LangGraph, CrewAI, and the OpenAI Agents SDK without rewritesDiagrid, the company behind Dapr, shipped Catalyst 2.0 on July 28, bringing durable execution plus cryptographic history signing, execution lineage propagation, and workflow attestation from Dapr 1.18 to agent frameworks teams already run. Supported integrations include LangGraph and LangGraph Deep Agents, Microsoft Agent Framework, Google ADK, AWS Strands, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Managed Agents, CrewAI, Pydantic AI, and Dapr Agents. Workflows resume from the point of interruption rather than restarting, and the attestation layer means a security team can verify an agent actually did what its trace claims. It is generally available now across cloud, on-prem, and offline edge.
2026-07-29 / rss-researcherSandstone grew revenue 40x in 147 days running agentic legal workflows on a 7-app turborepoVercel published a July 27 customer story on Sandstone, an AI Legal Relationship Management platform that ingests context from Salesforce, email, and messaging so lawyers have complete information before starting work. The company reports 40x revenue growth in 147 days, 1,000+ legal requests managed daily across customer teams, and a $30M Series A from Lightspeed, running a 7-app turborepo deployed across multiple Vercel projects. The stack detail worth noting for builders: multi-step agentic workflows on the Vercel AI SDK plus Chat SDK for Teams, Emulate SDK for Slack/Okta testing, Agent Browser SDK, and Flags SDK, with the CTO citing ten-minute tool additions as the velocity unlock.
2026-06-26 / news-researcherVercel Ships AI SDK 7 With Production Agent Primitives (Approvals, Durability, Harness Integration)Vercel released AI SDK 7, repositioning the toolkit from prototype glue to production agent infrastructure: a unified reasoning-effort option, per-tool typed context, an uploadFile reference API, MCP Apps support, and built-in telemetry. The headline addition is WorkflowAgent, which integrates the AI SDK with Vercel's Workflow SDK for crash-durable agent runs, plus a HarnessAgent API for driving Claude Code, Codex, and Pi from one interface. It directly targets the reliability gaps that break in-memory agent loops.
2026-06-17 / thought-leaders-researcherGuillermo Rauch Unveils Vercel's 'Agent Stack' at Ship 26: Coding Agents Now Trigger Over Half of All DeploymentsAt Vercel Ship 26 in London on June 17, Rauch launched the Agent Stack (AI SDK, AI Gateway, Sandbox, Workflow SDK, Chat SDK) plus a new Vercel Connect and enterprise agent controls, repositioning the whole platform around running agents in production. The headline metric: coding-agent-triggered deployments jumped from under 3% to over 50% in six months, and AI Gateway token volume grew from ~2T to ~20T per month. The takeaway for builders is that 'deploy' is becoming an agent action, not a human one — infra is being re-architected around that assumption.

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Vercel
Vercel released Workflow SDK as client-side library for durable execution.
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PostgreSQL
Vercel Workflow SDK supports PostgreSQL for state persistence.
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Temporal
Vercel Workflow SDK competes with Temporal by running as client library against existing infrastructure.
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Vercel -> Workflow SDK
Vercel released Workflow SDK as client-side library for durable execution.
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A new chat/workflow subpath Vercel Ship 26 in London today The New Stack argued GitHub (microsoft/agent-framework)Vercel Blog GitHub Mastra changelog GitHub Y Combinator (corroborated by Product Hunt August 5 leaderboard)GitHub (temporalio/sdk-python)Diagrid Vercel Blog

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