# temporal-ops

Administers Temporal Cloud and self-hosted environments via CLI, diagnosing stuck executions and managing namespace operations.

- skill · `type=skill` · Codex, ChatGPT · ★ 7604
- Author: Temporal · official OpenAI repository
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/HEAD/plugins/temporal/skills/temporal-ops/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-08
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/temporal-ops

## What it does

This skill runs operational tasks and troubleshooting routines across Temporal Cloud and self-hosted clusters using `temporal` and `tcld`. It covers namespace management, mTLS certificate rotation, API keys, and workflow lifecycle commands. Without the `temporal` or `tcld` CLIs available in the environment, this skill cannot interact with your clusters.

Destructive actions follow a strict safeguard workflow. Before terminating executions or dropping namespaces, the skill calculates the blast radius with `temporal workflow count --query`. It requests explicit operator confirmation before executing batch changes with `--yes`.

Incident triage works bottom-up across seven diagnostic layers. Investigation begins at DNS and port reachability before moving to gRPC frontend status, task queues, and workflow non-determinism. SDK programming remains strictly out of scope.

## Requirements
- Works with: Terraform

## Install

### Codex (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add openai/plugins --skill temporal-ops -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/temporal-ops/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Claude Code

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add openai/plugins --skill temporal-ops -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/temporal-ops/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/temporal-ops/

### Cursor

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/temporal-ops/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install openai/plugins temporal-ops
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/temporal-ops/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/openai/plugins --path plugins/temporal/skills/temporal-ops
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/temporal-ops/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/openai/plugins/tree/HEAD/plugins/temporal/skills/temporal-ops/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- diagnose stuck workflows through layered bottom-up triage
- execute batch workflow cancellations with upfront blast-radius checks
- rotate API keys and client mTLS certificates in Temporal Cloud
- inspect namespace health and capacity limits via CLI

## Example prompts
- Investigate why workflow `order-process-982` is stuck in the `billing` namespace
- Check blast radius and terminate all workflows matching query `ExecutionStatus="TimedOut"`
- Inspect mTLS certificate expiration and namespace status in Temporal Cloud

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: temporal-ops
description: 'Administer and diagnose running Temporal Cloud or self-hosted Temporal Server environments via CLI (temporal, tcld) — not SDK code. Operations: namespace CRUD, Cloud capacity/APS, API-key rotation, mTLS cert rotation, workflow health, batch cancel/terminate/reset, export, search attributes, Ops API, billing, audit logs, Terraform, SAML/SCIM, migration. Diagnosis: bottom-up triage of stuck workflows, non-determinism, worker-health, task-queue problems, HA failover, payload size limits, performance bottlenecks, missed schedules. Do NOT trigger for generic TLS/gRPC errors unrelated to Temporal, writing application code (temporal-developer), or worker tuning/sizing (temporal-workertuning).'
version: 0.2.0
disable-model-invocation: true
---

# Skill: temporal-ops

## Overview

This skill operates and diagnoses Temporal environments. It has two modes:

- **Operations:** the user wants to do something — create a namespace, rotate a key, check capacity, find unhealthy workflows, cancel a batch, set up export. The skill executes the right commands and interprets the output.
- **Diagnosis:** the user arrives with a symptom — a stuck workflow, a cert error, a connection timeout, a non-determinism panic. The skill routes the investigation through a layered, bottom-up diagnosis until a root cause is identified with a confidence score.

It does not teach how to write workflows or activities (use `skill-temporal-developer` for that), and it does not reproduce exhaustive CLI flag tables — run `temporal <cmd> --help` for those, and see [cli-conventions.md](references/ops/cli-conventions.md) for cross-command CLI conventions. The boundary is: if the user needs to administer or troubleshoot a running Temporal environment, this skill applies.

## Out of scope

- **Writing workflows, activities, or SDK code** → `skill-temporal-developer`.
- **Exhaustive CLI flags / command reference** → run `temporal <cmd> --help`; **cross-command CLI conventions** → [cli-conventions.md](references/ops/cli-conventions.md).
- **Worker performance tuning, sizing, capacity planning** → `skill-temporal-workertuning`.
- **Helm, Kubernetes, database admin, monitoring stack config** for self-hosted — beyond the CLI surface.

If the conversation drifts into one of these areas, hand off to the relevant sibling skill rather than improvising.

## Philosophy

### Operator discipline

When the user wants to perform an operational task:

1. **Identify the intent and backend.** Is this a Cloud operation (`tcld`) or a self-hosted operation (`temporal operator`)? Data-plane operations (`temporal workflow`, `temporal batch`, etc.) work on both. **If the backend is ambiguous, ask before proceeding — do not assume Cloud or self-hosted and do not output environment-specific commands until you know.**
2. **Execute commands and interpret output.** Run the documented command, read the result, and report what it means — or act on it if the user asked for an action. Read-only commands (`get`, `list`, `describe`, `count`, `show`) run freely. Anything listed under [Destructive operations](#destructive-operations) is proposed to the user first.
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