# Temporal Platform Documentation

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## Core Primitives

Fundamental building blocks of the Temporal Platform. Read this section first for foundational concepts referenced everywhere else.

### Activities

- [What is a Temporal Activity?](https://docs.temporal.io/activities.md)
- [Activity Definition](https://docs.temporal.io/activity-definition.md)
- [Activity Execution](https://docs.temporal.io/activity-execution.md)
- [Activity Operations](https://docs.temporal.io/activity-operations.md)
- [Local Activity](https://docs.temporal.io/local-activity.md)
- [Standalone Activity](https://docs.temporal.io/standalone-activity.md)

### Temporal architecture

- [How Temporal works](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/architecture/how-temporal-works.md)
- [Temporal architecture](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/architecture/temporal-architecture.md)
- [About Temporal SDKs](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/architecture/temporal-sdks.md)

### Child Workflows

- [Child Workflows](https://docs.temporal.io/child-workflows.md)
- [Parent Close Policy](https://docs.temporal.io/parent-close-policy.md)

### Data conversion

- [Codec Server](https://docs.temporal.io/codec-server.md)
- [How does Temporal handle application data?](https://docs.temporal.io/dataconversion.md)
- [Default and Custom Data Converters](https://docs.temporal.io/default-custom-data-converters.md)
- [External Storage](https://docs.temporal.io/external-storage.md)
- [Failure Converter](https://docs.temporal.io/failure-converter.md)
- [Key management](https://docs.temporal.io/key-management.md)
- [Payload Codec](https://docs.temporal.io/payload-codec.md)
- [Payload Converter](https://docs.temporal.io/payload-converter.md)
- [Remote data encoding](https://docs.temporal.io/remote-data-encoding.md)

### Event History

- [Event History](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/event-history.md)
- [Event History walkthrough with the .NET SDK](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/event-history/event-history-dotnet.md)
- [Event History walkthrough with the Go SDK](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/event-history/event-history-go.md)
- [Event History walkthrough with the Java SDK](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/event-history/event-history-java.md)
- [Event History walkthrough with the Python SDK](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/event-history/event-history-python.md)
- [Event History walkthrough with the TypeScript SDK](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/event-history/event-history-typescript.md)

### Namespace

- [Global Namespace](https://docs.temporal.io/global-namespace.md)
- [Temporal Namespace](https://docs.temporal.io/namespaces.md)

### Temporal Nexus

- [Temporal Nexus](https://docs.temporal.io/nexus.md)
- [Nexus Endpoints](https://docs.temporal.io/nexus/endpoints.md)
- [Error Handling - Temporal Nexus](https://docs.temporal.io/nexus/error-handling.md)
- [Execution Debugging - Temporal Nexus](https://docs.temporal.io/nexus/execution-debugging.md)
- [Nexus Metrics](https://docs.temporal.io/nexus/metrics.md)
- [Nexus Operations](https://docs.temporal.io/nexus/operations.md)
- [Nexus Patterns](https://docs.temporal.io/nexus/patterns.md)
- [Nexus Registry](https://docs.temporal.io/nexus/registry.md)
- [Security in Temporal Nexus](https://docs.temporal.io/nexus/security.md)
- [Nexus services](https://docs.temporal.io/nexus/services.md)
- [Standalone Nexus Operation](https://docs.temporal.io/standalone-nexus-operation.md)

### Temporal Service

- [Temporal Service](https://docs.temporal.io/temporal-service.md)
- [Archival](https://docs.temporal.io/temporal-service/archival.md)
- [Temporal Service configuration](https://docs.temporal.io/temporal-service/configuration.md)
- [Multi-Cluster Replication](https://docs.temporal.io/temporal-service/multi-cluster-replication.md)
- [Persistence](https://docs.temporal.io/temporal-service/persistence.md)
- [Temporal Server](https://docs.temporal.io/temporal-service/temporal-server.md)
- [Visibility](https://docs.temporal.io/temporal-service/visibility.md)

### Visibility

- [Dual Visibility](https://docs.temporal.io/dual-visibility.md)
- [List Filter](https://docs.temporal.io/list-filter.md)
- [Search Attributes](https://docs.temporal.io/search-attribute.md)
- [Temporal Visibility](https://docs.temporal.io/visibility.md)

### Serverless Workers

- [Worker Shutdown Behavior](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/workers/worker-shutdown.md)
- [Serverless Workers](https://docs.temporal.io/serverless-workers.md)
- [Serverless Workers on AWS Lambda](https://docs.temporal.io/serverless-workers/aws-lambda.md)
- [Serverless Workers on GCP Cloud Run](https://docs.temporal.io/serverless-workers/cloud-run.md)
- [Sticky Execution](https://docs.temporal.io/sticky-execution.md)
- [Task Queues](https://docs.temporal.io/task-queue.md)
- [Task Queues and naming best practices](https://docs.temporal.io/task-queue/naming.md)
- [Task Routing and Worker sessions](https://docs.temporal.io/task-routing.md)
- [Tasks](https://docs.temporal.io/tasks.md)
- [Worker Versioning](https://docs.temporal.io/worker-versioning.md)
- [What is a Temporal Worker?](https://docs.temporal.io/workers.md)

### Workflow

- [Temporal Cron Job](https://docs.temporal.io/cron-job.md)
- [Dynamic handler](https://docs.temporal.io/dynamic-handler.md)
- [Workflow Pause](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/workflow/workflow-pause.md)
- [Patching](https://docs.temporal.io/patching.md)
- [Schedule](https://docs.temporal.io/schedule.md)
- [Temporal Workflow Definition](https://docs.temporal.io/workflow-definition.md)
- [Temporal Workflow Execution overview](https://docs.temporal.io/workflow-execution.md)
- [Continue-As-New](https://docs.temporal.io/workflow-execution/continue-as-new.md)
- [Events and Event History](https://docs.temporal.io/workflow-execution/event.md)
- [Workflow Execution limits](https://docs.temporal.io/workflow-execution/limits.md)
- [Timers and Start Delays](https://docs.temporal.io/workflow-execution/timers-delays.md)
- [Workflow Id and Run Id](https://docs.temporal.io/workflow-execution/workflowid-runid.md)
- [Temporal Workflow](https://docs.temporal.io/workflows.md)

### Workflow message passing

- [Temporal Workflow message passing - Signals, Queries, & Updates](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/workflow-message-passing.md)
- [Handling Signals, Queries, & Updates](https://docs.temporal.io/handling-messages.md)
- [Sending Signals, Queries, & Updates](https://docs.temporal.io/sending-messages.md)
- [Workflow Streams](https://docs.temporal.io/workflow-streams.md)

### Other

- [Temporal Encyclopedia](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia.md)
- [Application failures](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/application-failures.md)
- [Context Propagation](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/context-propagation.md)
- [Detecting Activity failures](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/detecting-activity-failures.md)
- [Detecting Workflow failures](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/detecting-workflow-failures.md)
- [Extensibility](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/extensibility.md)
- [Failures and error handling](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/failures-and-error-handling.md)
- [Interceptors](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/interceptors.md)
- [Plugins](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/plugins.md)
- [What is a Temporal Retry Policy?](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/retry-policies.md)
- [Temporal Client](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/temporal-client.md)
- [Worker versioning (legacy)](https://docs.temporal.io/encyclopedia/worker-versioning-legacy.md)

## Concepts

What Temporal is and how it works.

- [Glossary](https://docs.temporal.io/glossary.md)
- [What is Temporal?](https://docs.temporal.io/temporal.md)

## SDK Development Guides

Each SDK guide is organized by topic (e.g., workflows, activities, testing). All SDKs follow the same structure, with minor differences depending on language-specific features. Use these for language-specific implementation details.

- [.Net SDK developer guide](https://docs.temporal.io/develop/dotnet/llms.txt)
- [Go SDK developer guide](https://docs.temporal.io/develop/go/llms.txt)
- [Java SDK developer guide](https://docs.temporal.io/develop/java/llms.txt)
- [PHP SDK developer guide](https://docs.temporal.io/develop/php/llms.txt)
- [Python SDK developer guide](https://docs.temporal.io/develop/python/llms.txt)
- [Ruby SDK developer guide](https://docs.temporal.io/develop/ruby/llms.txt)
- [Rust SDK developer guide](https://docs.temporal.io/develop/rust/llms.txt)
- [TypeScript SDK developer guide](https://docs.temporal.io/develop/typescript/llms.txt)

## Sections

- [Cross-SDK Development Guides](https://docs.temporal.io/develop/llms.txt): Development guidance that applies across SDKs (worker performance, safe deployments, plugins).
- [Temporal Cloud](https://docs.temporal.io/cloud/llms.txt): Deploy and manage Temporal Cloud
- [Evaluating Temporal](https://docs.temporal.io/evaluate/llms.txt): Background for deciding whether and how to adopt Temporal, including feature comparisons and use cases.
- [Production Deployment](https://docs.temporal.io/production-deployment/llms.txt): Deploy Temporal to production
- [Self-Hosted Service Guide](https://docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide/llms.txt): Deploy, configure, and operate a self-hosted Temporal Service.
- [CLI Reference](https://docs.temporal.io/cli/llms.txt): Temporal CLI command reference
- [References](https://docs.temporal.io/references/llms.txt): Configuration and API references
- [Troubleshooting](https://docs.temporal.io/troubleshooting/llms.txt): Common issues and solutions
- [Best Practices](https://docs.temporal.io/best-practices/llms.txt): Recommended patterns for Temporal
- [Design Patterns](https://docs.temporal.io/design-patterns/llms.txt): Reusable Workflow and Activity patterns for common orchestration problems.
- [Guides](https://docs.temporal.io/guides/llms.txt): End-to-end walkthroughs that solve a specific problem with Temporal.
- [AI Cookbook](https://docs.temporal.io/ai-cookbook/llms.txt): Runnable examples for building AI and agent applications with Temporal.
- [Interactive Demos](https://docs.temporal.io/demos/llms.txt): Browser-based interactive demos. These pages are visual tools rather than prose documentation.

## Other

- [Getting started with Temporal](https://docs.temporal.io/getting-started.md)
- [Temporal Docs](https://docs.temporal.io/index.md)
- [Integrations](https://docs.temporal.io/integrations.md)
- [Cloud Ops API](https://docs.temporal.io/ops.md)
- [Quickstarts](https://docs.temporal.io/quickstarts.md)
- [Temporal Platform security](https://docs.temporal.io/security.md)
- [Temporal Web UI](https://docs.temporal.io/web-ui.md)
- [Develop with AI](https://docs.temporal.io/with-ai.md)