Block @ Replay 2026 | Powering AI Agents with Temporal and Kgoose

Catherine Zhang (Software Engineer, Block) shares how Block's AI Capabilities team built agent workflows using Temporal and kgoose to handle complex tool integrations, session context, and recurring tasks across multiple products. She covers the migration from sync to async workflows and the challenges they hit around scheduling and non-determinism in tests.

Filmed at Replay 2026: The Durable Execution Conference for AI, by Temporal.

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