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How do Catalyst and Temporal differ in handling non-deterministic agentic workflows?
Temporal is designed for deterministic workflows and may struggle with non-deterministic agent behavior, such as external API calls or LLM responses. Catalyst explicitly supports probabilistic agentic workflows by providing framework-agnostic agent runners that can handle nondeterminism, while still maintaining durable execution guarantees. This allows you to use agents from LangGraph or OpenAI Agents SDK without modifying them for determinism, whereas Temporal would require careful coding to avoid non-deterministic side effects.
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