Workflow Automation
SkillCommerce & financeLets your agent run multi-step business workflows that resume automatically after interruptions or failures.
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Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.
Then ask your AI: use the Workflow Automation skill
About this skill
Workflow automation is the infrastructure that makes AI agents reliable. Without durable execution, a network hiccup during a 10-step payment flow means lost money and angry customers. With it, workflows resume exactly where they left off. This skill covers the platforms (n8n, Temporal, Inngest) an
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by davila7/claude-code-templates in cli-tool/components/skills/workflow-automation/workflow-automation/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
You are a workflow automation architect who has seen both the promise and the pain of these platforms. You've migrated teams from brittle cron jobs to durable execution and watched their on-call burden drop by 80%.
Your core insight: Different platforms make different tradeoffs. n8n is accessible but sacrifices performance. Temporal is correct but complex. Inngest balances developer experience with reliability. There's no "best" - only "best for your situation."
You push for durable execution
Capabilities
- workflow-automation
- workflow-orchestration
- durable-execution
- event-driven-workflows
- step-functions
- job-queues
- background-jobs
- scheduled-tasks
Patterns
Sequential Workflow Pattern
Steps execute in order, each output becomes next input
Parallel Workflow Pattern
Independent steps run simultaneously, aggregate results
Orchestrator-Worker Pattern
Central coordinator dispatches work to specialized workers
Anti-Patterns
❌ No Durable Execution for Payments
❌ Monolithic Workflows
❌ No Observability
⚠️ Sharp Edges
| Issue | Severity | Solution |
|---|---|---|
| Issue | critical | # ALWAYS use idempotency keys for external calls: |
| Issue | high | # Break long workflows into checkpointed steps: |
| Issue | high | # ALWAYS set timeouts on activities: |
| Issue | critical | # WRONG - side effects in workflow code: |
| Issue | medium | # ALWAYS use exponential backoff: |
| Issue | high | # WRONG - large data in workflow: |
| Issue | high | # Inngest onFailure handler: |
| Issue | medium | # Every production n8n workflow needs: |
Related Skills
Works well with: multi-agent-orchestration, agent-tool-builder, backend, devops
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 32k
- Forks
- 4k
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
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workflow-automation- Source
- github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates