--- schema: 1 type: video title: >- OpenAI + @Temporalio : Building Durable, Production Ready Agents - Cornelia Davis, Temporal description: >- Everyone is building AI Agents, and everyone is looking for ways to build them more easily. Earlier this year, OpenAI released the OpenAI Agents SDK to bring the patterns they have found to work for building agents to the developer community. With the SDK you can define AI agents by supplying them instructions (prompts), specifying which model to use (OpenAI or not), listing tools it uses (including MCP), and much more. The OpenAI Agents SDK encourages a paradigm of orchestrated micro-agents, which themselves may have micro-orchestrations within them with the use of handoffs. It’s an elegant and powerful model. But a good AI Agents programming model is not enough. These agents are ultimately wildly distributed systems and are plagued with all of the problems such systems bring. - How can they persevere through flakey networks? - How can they function when LLMs are rate limited? - How can they run for long periods of time (hours, days, weeks, months) when infrastructure is rarely stable that long? In this workshop, we’ll show you how. Temporal is an open source (MIT license) durable execution framework that brings resilience to AI agents, and in this workshop we’ll show you how it’s done with the OpenAI Agents SDK. Spoiler: OpenAI and Temporal have done all of the heaving lifting for you with an integration announced earlier this year. Oh, and OpenAI themselves use Temporal to help make several of their products production ready (image gen and Codex, for example). Not using the OpenAI Agents SDK? Do come anyway; the foundational concepts carry over to different agent frameworks (and more integrations are coming all the time). https://twitter.com/cdavisafc https://www.linkedin.com/in/corneliadavis --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/k8cnVCMYmNc-building-durable-production-ready-agents-with-openai-sdk-and-temporal Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- canonical: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc' markdown: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc.md' llms: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc/llms.txt' parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T16:02:41.937Z' language: null children: [] videoId: k8cnVCMYmNc durationSeconds: 4710 publishedAt: '2026-01-12T19:30:06.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 259 endSeconds: 340 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=259' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 351 endSeconds: 466 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=351' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 478 endSeconds: 599 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=478' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 478 endSeconds: 599 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=478' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 599 endSeconds: 611 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=599' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 611 endSeconds: 691 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=611' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 702 endSeconds: 806 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=702' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 910 endSeconds: 922 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=910' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 1011 endSeconds: 1126 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=1011' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 1126 endSeconds: 1136 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=1126' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 1136 endSeconds: 1235 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=1136' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 1491 endSeconds: 1618 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=1491' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 1755 endSeconds: 1767 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=1755' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 1980 endSeconds: 2086 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=1980' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 2485 endSeconds: 2586 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=2485' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 2597 endSeconds: 2691 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=2597' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 2819 endSeconds: 2905 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=2819' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 3028 endSeconds: 3166 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=3028' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 18 text: null startSeconds: 3178 endSeconds: 3268 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=3178' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 19 text: null startSeconds: 3490 endSeconds: 3582 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=3490' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 20 text: null startSeconds: 3593 endSeconds: 3727 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=3593' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 21 text: null startSeconds: 3841 endSeconds: 3968 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=3841' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 22 text: null startSeconds: 3978 endSeconds: 4113 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=3978' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 23 text: null startSeconds: 4217 endSeconds: 4351 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=4217' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 24 text: null startSeconds: 4362 endSeconds: 4454 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc?t=4362' heldReason: rights --- # OpenAI + @Temporalio : Building Durable, Production Ready Agents - Cornelia Davis, Temporal Everyone is building AI Agents, and everyone is looking for ways to build them more easily. Earlier this year, OpenAI released the OpenAI Agents SDK to bring the patterns they have found to work for building agents to the developer community. With the SDK you can define AI agents by supplying them instructions (prompts), specifying which model to use (OpenAI or not), listing tools it uses (including MCP), and much more. The OpenAI Agents SDK encourages a paradigm of orchestrated micro-agents, which themselves may have micro-orchestrations within them with the use of handoffs. It’s an elegant and powerful model. But a good AI Agents programming model is not enough. These agents are ultimately wildly distributed systems and are plagued with all of the problems such systems bring. - How can they persevere through flakey networks? - How can they function when LLMs are rate limited? - How can they run for long periods of time (hours, days, weeks, months) when infrastructure is rarely stable that long? In this workshop, we’ll show you how. Temporal is an open source (MIT license) durable execution framework that brings resilience to AI agents, and in this workshop we’ll show you how it’s done with the OpenAI Agents SDK. Spoiler: OpenAI and Temporal have done all of the heaving lifting for you with an integration announced earlier this year. Oh, and OpenAI themselves use Temporal to help make several of their products production ready (image gen and Codex, for example). Not using the OpenAI Agents SDK? Do come anyway; the foundational concepts carry over to different agent frameworks (and more integrations are coming all the time). https://twitter.com/cdavisafc https://www.linkedin.com/in/corneliadavis --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/k8cnVCMYmNc-building-durable-production-ready-agents-with-openai-sdk-and-temporal Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/watch/k8cnVCMYmNc · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.