# Temporal — API Agent Score

> Score: 68/100 (Grade: C) | Domain: temporal.io | Rubric: 1.0.0 | Checked: July 24, 2026

Temporal scored 68/100 (C), classified "partially-ready".

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## Summary

- Overall: 68/100 (C)
- Classification: partially-ready

## Category Scores

- API Design: 70/100 (B)
- Developer Experience: 55/100 (D)
- Agent Discovery: 79/100 (B)
- Agent Understanding: 65/100 (C)
- Agent Usability: 68/100 (C)

## Check Results

### API Design

- [warn] Schema coverage & depth — 42/42 (100%) public params are fully typed (no any/**kwargs). Analyzer confirms all methods have a derivable input schema. Investigated: sdk 99%, spec 58%.
- [warn] Machine-readable, versioned contract — info.version="0.0.1" set but no versioning scheme (URL / header / media type) detected. Investigated: spec 75%, docs 50%.
- [pass] Security & governance hygiene — No credential-shaped strings detected in spec. Investigated: spec 100%, wellknown 100%.
- [warn] Example coverage — README is present but has no runnable quickstart. Investigated: sdk 50%, spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [fail] Auth declared & discoverable — No securitySchemes declared. Investigated: spec 0%, docs 0%.

### Developer Experience

- [pass] Description completeness — 67% description completeness (target 90%+). Investigated: spec 100%, sdk 0%.
- [pass] Changelog published — changelog documented in the docs site at https://temporal.io/changelog. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%, sdk 100%.
- [warn] Quickstart present — Quickstart page reachable (3 variants scanned starting at https://learn.temporal.io/getting_started/) but no runnable code sample detected in HTML or .md variant. Investigated: docs 50%.
- [fail] Self-service developer portal — No signup page detected across conventional paths (/signup, /sign-up, /register, /get-started, /console/signup, /dashboard/signup, /try, /try-free, /free, /free-trial, /start, /start-free). Investigated: docs 0%.
- [fail] Code samples in docs — No detectable code samples across 5 sampled docs pages. Investigated: docs 0%.

### Agent Discovery

- [pass] Registry & SDK presence — Indexed on Context7 (temporalio/temporal, 490 snippets). Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 100%, cli 100%, mcp 0%, wellknown 0%.
- [warn] Docs reachable, not hard auth-gated — Content negotiation partially supported: 40 correct type, 0 wrong type, 10 HTML only. Investigated: docs 88%.
- [warn] llms.txt present, valid & comprehensive — No llms.txt directive found in HTML of any of 40 sampled pages; 10 failed to fetch. Investigated: docs 38%, sdk 0%.
- [warn] Crawlable / AEO — Sitemap present (708 entries) but carries no lastmod values. Investigated: wellknown 75%.

### Agent Understanding

- [pass] Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) — error codes documented in the docs site at https://docs.temporal.io/troubleshooting. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%, sdk 100%.
- [warn] Agent-navigable, token-efficient docs — 7 of 40 pages have substantive content differences between markdown and HTML (avg 9% missing). Investigated: docs 67%.
- [warn] Operation purpose clarity — 0% of operations are agent-inferable. Investigated: spec 50%.
- [warn] Description consistency across surfaces — Mean pairwise description similarity across 3 surfaces (spec, docs, sdk) is 6% (threshold 35% for full credit).
- [fail] Agent instructions file (AGENTS.md) — No AGENTS.md at the site root or /.well-known/. Investigated: wellknown 0%.
- [fail] Docs structured data — Neither JSON-LD nor OpenGraph/meta tags detected across 5 sampled pages — likely a CSR-only docs site. Investigated: docs 0%.

### Agent Usability

- [pass] Idempotency documented — Built-in retry machinery is present (grep-derived). Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [pass] Sandbox separation — Sandbox environments are exposed (sandbox). Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [fail] Rate-limit signaling — No rate-limit response headers documented. Investigated: spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [fail] Runnable collection with test scripts — No public Postman workspace discovered for the org. Investigated: platform 0%.
- [skip] Pagination documented & consistent — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

## Executive Summary

Temporal's API program shows strength in machine-readable contract design and documentation reachability, but partners and their AI agents face two critical gaps: there is no structured, agent-readable context layer (no AGENTS.md, no structured doc data, no llms.txt), and onboarding is gated behind friction — no self-service portal and sparse code samples mean partners cannot get hands-on without a conversation. Prioritize building a discoverable, agent-ready documentation front door first, then layer in runnable collections and operational signals so partners and their agents can integrate with confidence end to end.