durable-workflow/ai

Durable Workflow AI

Durable sandbox orchestration for AI agents built on Durable Workflow. The package provides a reusable Laravel workflow for provisioning a sandbox, dispatching tool calls, checkpointing state, recovering from sandbox loss, and cleaning up resources. Provider-specific APIs stay behind versioned contracts.

The package is currently published on the 2.0 release-candidate channel. The Durable Workflow runtime it uses is stable 2.x.

Agent Skill

The repository also publishes the vendor-neutral durable-execution agent skill. It helps agents decide when durable orchestration is appropriate, design replay-safe workflows and retry-safe effects, and operate long-running processes. It does not require this PHP package or the Durable Workflow runtime.

npx skills add durable-workflow/ai --skill durable-execution

Install

composer require durable-workflow/ai:^2.0@RC
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=durable-workflow-ai-config

Laravel discovers DurableWorkflow\AI\Laravel\SandboxServiceProvider automatically. The package requires PHP 8.2 or newer, Laravel 12 or newer, and the embedded Durable Workflow runtime.

Run A Sandbox Workflow

use DurableWorkflow\AI\Workflows\SandboxAgentWorkflow;
use Workflow\V2\WorkflowStub;

$workflow = WorkflowStub::make(SandboxAgentWorkflow::class);

$workflow->start(
    toolCalls: [
        [
            'type' => 'write_file',
            'args' => [
                'path' => 'README.md',
                'contents' => "# Agent workspace\n",
            ],
        ],
        ['type' => 'shell', 'args' => ['command' => 'ls -la']],
    ],
    provider: 'e2b',
    snapshotEveryNCalls: 10,
);

Configure E2B before starting the application worker:

DURABLE_AI_SANDBOX_DRIVER=e2b
E2B_API_KEY=
E2B_TEMPLATE_ID=base

php artisan queue:work

Every tool call receives a stable operation ID. The workflow can restore its latest snapshot after sandbox loss and replay every completed later call before continuing. Success, cancellation, and failure all enter the cleanup path; provider leases remain the final cleanup bound when deletion cannot complete.

Providers

The local provider runs subprocesses with the application worker's privileges. It is not a security boundary and must not execute untrusted code.

See the provider-author guide to register E2B, Modal, Daytona, Kubernetes, or another sandbox backend without changing workflow code.

Guarantees

The package makes effect delivery, snapshot ownership, recovery, leases, and cleanup behavior explicit. Built-in providers currently advertise at-least-once effects because neither remote HTTP execution nor a local process can atomically commit an arbitrary tool effect with a Durable Workflow acknowledgement.

Read the delivery and recovery guarantees for the full contract, including operation deduplication, checkpoint replacement, post-snapshot reconstruction, and retained-snapshot ownership.

Development

composer install
composer format
composer stan
composer test

Shared contribution, security, and release guidance lives in the Durable Workflow organization guide.

License

Durable Workflow AI is open-source software licensed under the MIT license.