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Give your AI coding agent Temporal expertise with Skills and real-time documentation access with the Temporal Docs MCP Server.

Skills​

Skills give AI agents domain-specific Temporal expertise. They work with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and any agent that supports Skills.

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.

  1. Add the Temporal skills marketplace to Claude Code:

    /plugin marketplace add temporalio/agent-skills

  2. Open the plugin manager by running /plugin within Claude Code, select the marketplace, and install temporal-developer.

Restart your coding agent after installing.

Temporal Cloud Skill​

The Temporal Cloud Skill helps your AI coding agent troubleshoot Temporal Cloud connectivity, authentication, and configuration issues.

This works with Claude Code, Codex, Cline, and other agents.

Install the skill using the skills CLI:

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

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 globally so it's available in all your projects:

  1. Register the MCP server with Claude Code:

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

  2. Restart Claude Code and run /mcp to authenticate with your Google account.

To add the server to a specific project only, omit the --scope user flag. This stores the configuration in the project's .mcp.json file:

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

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"
    }
  }
}