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When should teams choose Catalyst instead of Temporal?
Catalyst may fit when teams need agent durability together with zero-trust identity, MCP and tool governance, open Dapr primitives, and deployment into customer-controlled environments. Temporal may be simpler for workflow-only use cases already standardized on Temporal.
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