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Workflow-engine projects on GitHub

Engines that orchestrate multi-step task workflows

As of , the most-starred Workflow-engine projects on GitHub are airflow (47.2K stars), conductor (32.3K stars) and budibase (28.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 21 Workflow-engine repositories with 290.2K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was temporal, with +23 stars in a day.

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290.2KStars in total
+122Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+23

temporal

temporalio/temporal · ★ 23.8K

Temporal is a durable execution platform: a server that runs units of application logic called Workflows resiliently, automatically handling intermittent failures and retrying failed operations.

+21

open-compute

elliothux/open-compute · ★ 2K

open-compute is a self-hosted platform that runs Cloudflare Workers code unchanged on hardware you control, reimplementing Workers, KV, D1, R2, Durable Objects, Queues, Workflows, Cron, Cache, Images, Vectorize and AI Search as a single Rust binary.

+13

Archon

coleam00/Archon · ★ 23.7K

Archon is an open-source workflow engine for AI coding agents: you define your development process - planning, implementation, validation, review, PR creation - as YAML workflows and run them reliably across all your projects.

+10

windmill

windmill-labs/windmill · ★ 18.2K

Windmill is an open-source developer platform that turns scripts into webhooks, workflows and UIs, acting as a self-hostable alternative to Retool, Pipedream and Temporal for powering internal infrastructure.

The all-time top

21 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · apache/airflow

    airflow

    Apache Airflow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows, defined as code using Python.

    47.2K
  2. #2 · conductor-oss/conductor

    conductor

    An open-source durable execution engine for microservices and AI agents: it persists every workflow step so long-running processes survive crashes, retries, and restarts. It originated at Netflix and is maintained by Orkes and the community.

    32.3K
  3. #3 · Budibase/budibase

    budibase

    Budibase is an open-source operations platform where you build AI agents, automations and web apps that handle everyday operations — requests, approvals, issues — in one place.

    28.3K
  1. 4

    miaosha

    26.6Kqiurunze123/miaosha · Java

    This is a Chinese learning repository about designing and building a high-concurrency 'flash sale' (seckill) system for internet engineers, combining iterative demo projects, small frameworks, study notes and diagrams covering distributed-systems topics.

  2. 5

    prefect

    24KPrefectHQ/prefect · Python

    Prefect is a Python workflow orchestration framework for turning ordinary scripts into resilient, production-grade data pipelines with scheduling, retries, caching, and event-based automations.

  3. 6

    temporal

    23.8Ktemporalio/temporal · Go

    Temporal is a durable execution platform: a server that runs units of application logic called Workflows resiliently, automatically handling intermittent failures and retrying failed operations.

  4. 7

    Archon

    23.7Kcoleam00/Archon · TypeScript

    Archon is an open-source workflow engine for AI coding agents: you define your development process - planning, implementation, validation, review, PR creation - as YAML workflows and run them reliably across all your projects.

  5. 8

    windmill

    18.2Kwindmill-labs/windmill · Rust

    Windmill is an open-source developer platform that turns scripts into webhooks, workflows and UIs, acting as a self-hostable alternative to Retool, Pipedream and Temporal for powering internal infrastructure.

  6. 9

    argo-workflows

    17Kargoproj/argo-workflows · Go

    An open source, container-native workflow engine for Kubernetes: it orchestrates parallel jobs where every step of your workflow runs as a container. It is a CNCF graduated project.

  7. 10

    conductor

    12.7KNetflix/conductor · Java

    Conductor is a platform built by Netflix to orchestrate workflows that span across multiple microservices.

  8. 11

    PocketFlow

    11.3KThe-Pocket/PocketFlow · Python

    Pocket Flow is a minimalist 100-line LLM framework built around a single Graph abstraction, letting you build agents, workflows, and RAG pipelines without heavy dependencies or vendor lock-in.

  9. 12

    dtm

    10.9Kdtm-labs/dtm · Go

    DTM is a distributed transaction framework that provides cross-service eventual data consistency. It implements the saga, TCC, XA, 2-phase message, outbox and workflow patterns for different application scenarios.

  10. 13

    astron-agent

    8.9Kiflytek/astron-agent · Java

    An enterprise-grade agentic workflow platform from iFLYTEK: it combines workflow orchestration, model management, AI and MCP tool integration, RPA automation, and team collaboration for building production-ready agent applications.

  11. 14

    open-compute

    2Kelliothux/open-compute · Rust

    open-compute is a self-hosted platform that runs Cloudflare Workers code unchanged on hardware you control, reimplementing Workers, KV, D1, R2, Durable Objects, Queues, Workflows, Cron, Cache, Images, Vectorize and AI Search as a single Rust binary.

  12. 15

    cayu

    904cayu-dev/cayu · Python

    Cayu is an open-source Python framework for building and running domain-specific long-horizon AI agents, with a durable runtime built in that handles sessions, task dispatch, recovery, approvals, and observability.

  13. 16

    tork

    820runabol/tork · Go

    Tork is a lightweight, distributed workflow engine written in Go. You define jobs made of multiple tasks, and each task runs as a simple script inside its own Docker container — on one machine or across many workers.

  14. 17

    pyraimd

    714kpleo/pyraimd · Python

    Pyramid is an extensible Python framework for ab initio molecular dynamics: first-principles engines and machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) work together — reference calculations supply energies and forces while fast learned potentials propagate the atoms.

  15. 18

    dsh-agent-team-gui

    288toolclub/dsh-agent-team-gui · TypeScript

    dsh-agent-team-gui is an unofficial plugin for DeepSeek Harness (DSH) that lets you build a reusable multi-agent team: one agent plans the work, another implements it, and a third reviews it, with its own Run Center for tracking progress and Token usage.

  16. 19

    agent-control

    195loulanyue/agent-control · Python

    Agent Control is a production-grade control plane and orchestration engine for autonomous AI agents, handling distributed task dispatching, heartbeat leasing, DAG workflow execution and data-crawling pipelines, with a built-in MCP server for LLM clients like Claude Desktop and Cursor.

  17. 20

    oh-my-subagents

    191ringlochid/oh-my-subagents · Python

    A local orchestration runtime for Codex and Claude subagents: durable AI teams with persistent task state, reusable responsibility trees and interruption recovery, instead of ad-hoc delegation.

  18. 21

    jarviscore-framework

    189Prescott-Data/jarviscore-framework · Python

    JarvisCore is a Python framework for building AI agent systems that can plan, reason, execute code, browse the web, search the internet, and connect to 150 external services out of the box.

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