<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Orkes Blog</title><description>Insights, tutorials, and updates on workflow orchestration from the Orkes team.</description><link>https://orkes.io</link><item><title>Turn Any Function Into a Workflow Step: Build Your First Orkes Conductor Worker</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/build-first-orkes-conductor-worker</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/build-first-orkes-conductor-worker</guid><description>A step-by-step tutorial for building an Orkes Conductor worker: register a task definition, write the worker, and wire it into a complete workflow with branching.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ENGINEERING</category><category>PRODUCT</category><author>Maria Shimkovska</author></item><item><title>What Are Workers in Orkes Conductor? How Your Own Code Fits Into a Workflow</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/what-are-workers-orkes-conductor</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/what-are-workers-orkes-conductor</guid><description>What is a worker in Orkes Conductor? Learn how workers let you run your own code as a step in a workflow, how polling works, and when to write one.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ENGINEERING</category><category>PRODUCT</category><author>Maria Shimkovska</author></item><item><title>How to Build a UI Screenshot-to-Code AI Agent</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-build-a-screenshot-to-react-ai-agent</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-build-a-screenshot-to-react-ai-agent</guid><description>Build an AI agent that turns UI screenshots into working React + TypeScript components. Drop in a design, get back clean, Tailwind-styled code in seconds.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ENGINEERING</category><author>Maria Shimkovska</author></item><item><title>What Is Loop Engineering?</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/what-is-loop-engineering</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/what-is-loop-engineering</guid><description>Loop engineering is building a loop around your agent so the agent can reprompt itself without you needing to do it. but you still need to keep yourself in the picture.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ENGINEERING</category><author>Maria Shimkovska</author></item><item><title>Building Durable Loops with Conductor, Part 1: Why Agentic Loops, and Why Now?</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/building-durable-loops-with-conductor-part-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/building-durable-loops-with-conductor-part-1</guid><description>Part one of a series on durable loops. Why agentic systems are loops, why naive loops fail as tasks get longer, and what makes a loop durable, grounded in a working Conductor OSS example.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AGENTIC</category><category>ENGINEERING</category><category>INSIGHTS</category><author>Nick Lotz</author></item><item><title>How to Reuse Workflows Inside Other Workflows in Orkes Conductor</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-reuse-workflows-inside-other-workflows-in-orkes-conductor</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-reuse-workflows-inside-other-workflows-in-orkes-conductor</guid><description>Every time you copy workflow logic into a new workflow, you create a maintenance problem. Here&apos;s how the Sub Workflow task solves it.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ENGINEERING</category><author>Maria Shimkovska</author></item><item><title>How to Connect an MCP Server to Your AI Agent (Without Leaking API Keys)</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-connect-an-mcp-server-to-your-ai-agent</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-connect-an-mcp-server-to-your-ai-agent</guid><description>Wiring an MCP server into an agent usually means scattering API keys across every process that runs it. How to connect MCP tools with Agentspan and keep the credentials on the server.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AGENTIC</category><category>ENGINEERING</category><category>SOLUTIONS</category><author>Nick Lotz</author></item><item><title>How to Process a List of Items in Parallel in Orkes Conductor</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-process-a-list-of-items-in-parallel-in-orkes-conductor</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-process-a-list-of-items-in-parallel-in-orkes-conductor</guid><description>You have a workflow that needs to process a list of items and doing them one by one is too slow. Here&apos;s how the DYNAMIC_FORK task solves it.</description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ENGINEERING</category><author>Maria Shimkovska</author></item><item><title>How to Add Conditional Branching to Your Workflows in Orkes Conductor</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-add-conditional-branching-to-workflows-in-orkes-conductor</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-add-conditional-branching-to-workflows-in-orkes-conductor</guid><description>You have a workflow that needs to take a different path based on a score, a status, or a region. The last thing you want to do is build that routing logic into your application code. Here&apos;s how the SWITCH task solves it.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ENGINEERING</category><author>Maria Shimkovska</author></item><item><title>How to Call Any External API From a Workflow in Orkes Conductor</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-call-an-external-api-from-a-workflow-in-orkes-conductor</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-call-an-external-api-from-a-workflow-in-orkes-conductor</guid><description>Most workflows need to talk to the outside world at some point. Here&apos;s how Conductor&apos;s built-in HTTP task handles API calls, webhooks, and external service triggers without any custom code.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ENGINEERING</category><author>Maria Shimkovska</author></item><item><title>How to Run Custom Logic in Your Workflows Without Writing a Custom Worker</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-run-custom-logic-in-workflows-orkes-conductor</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-run-custom-logic-in-workflows-orkes-conductor</guid><description>You have a workflow that needs to calculate a price, apply a business rule, or format a string. The last thing you want to do is deploy a whole service for that. Here&apos;s how the INLINE task solves it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ENGINEERING</category><author>Maria Shimkovska</author></item><item><title>Why AI Agents Lose Work When They Crash (and How to Run skills.md Skills Durably)</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/why-ai-agents-lose-work-when-they-crash</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/why-ai-agents-lose-work-when-they-crash</guid><description>An agent crash shouldn&apos;t erase everything the run already did. How to make skills.md skill invocations durable, recoverable executions with Agentspan.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AGENTIC</category><category>ENGINEERING</category><category>SOLUTIONS</category><author>Nick Lotz</author></item><item><title>How to Transform JSON in Orkes Conductor Without Writing Custom Code</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/stop-building-this-yourself-json-jq-transform</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/stop-building-this-yourself-json-jq-transform</guid><description>Stop writing custom workers just to transform JSON. Here&apos;s how Conductor&apos;s built-in JSON_JQ_TRANSFORM task handles reshaping, filtering, and merging in one expression.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ENGINEERING</category><author>Maria Shimkovska</author></item><item><title>What Is Conversational Memory? 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run, and monitor Conductor workflows without you explaining a thing.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AGENTIC</category><category>ENGINEERING</category><author>Maria Shimkovska</author></item><item><title>Semantic Memory for AI Agents: How Long-Running Agents Remember What Matters</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/semantic-memory-for-ai-agents-how-long-running-agents-remember-what-matters</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/semantic-memory-for-ai-agents-how-long-running-agents-remember-what-matters</guid><description>A practical introduction to semantic memory for AI agents: what should persist across sessions, how it differs from chat history, and how Agentspan exposes memory as agent infrastructure.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AGENTIC</category><category>ENGINEERING</category><category>INSIGHTS</category><author>Nick Lotz</author></item><item><title>AI Agent System Design: Building Durable Agents from Tools to Deployment</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/ai-agent-system-design-building-durable-agents-from-tools-to-deployment</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/ai-agent-system-design-building-durable-agents-from-tools-to-deployment</guid><description>A practical system design guide for production AI agents: tools, state, integrations, human approval, recovery, observability, and deployment architecture.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AGENTIC</category><category>ENGINEERING</category><category>INSIGHTS</category><author>Nick Lotz</author></item><item><title>How to Build a Customer Success AI Agent in Python</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-build-a-customer-success-ai-agent</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-build-a-customer-success-ai-agent</guid><description>Let’s build a customer success AI agent that can understand customer issues, gather context, and decide what to do 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Claude Code in Minutes</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-build-workflows-using-claude-code-and-conductor-skills</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-build-workflows-using-claude-code-and-conductor-skills</guid><description>How you can use Claude Code and Conductor Skills to build all of your workflows</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AGENTIC</category><category>ENGINEERING</category><category>SOLUTIONS</category><author>Maria Shimkovska</author></item><item><title>Agents Talk to Each Other: Build a Support Swarm with Peer-to-Peer Transfers</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/agents-talk-to-each-other-build-a-support-swarm-with-peer-to-peer-transfers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/agents-talk-to-each-other-build-a-support-swarm-with-peer-to-peer-transfers</guid><description>Build a support swarm in Agentspan using Strategy.SWARM so specialist agents can transfer work directly to each 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Loop</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/late-bound-sagas-why-your-agent-is-not-an-llm-in-a-loop</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/late-bound-sagas-why-your-agent-is-not-an-llm-in-a-loop</guid><description>Why durable agent execution needs a runtime-owned instruction pointer, an intent ledger, and effectively-once side effects instead of a process-local loop.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:39:11 GMT</pubDate><category>AGENTIC</category><category>ENGINEERING</category><category>INSIGHTS</category><author>Viren Baraiya</author></item><item><title>Redact Internal Data with Agentspan Guardrails</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-redact-internal-data-with-agentspan-guardrails</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-redact-internal-data-with-agentspan-guardrails</guid><description>Use an output guardrail in Agentspan to rewrite sensitive incident metadata before the workflow returns a customer-facing response.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AGENTIC</category><category>ENGINEERING</category><category>SOLUTIONS</category><author>Nick Lotz</author></item><item><title>Three Reviewers, One PR, Zero Wait: Build a Parallel AI Agent Pipeline</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/three-reviewers-one-pr-zero-wait-build-a-parallel-ai-agent-pipeline</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/three-reviewers-one-pr-zero-wait-build-a-parallel-ai-agent-pipeline</guid><description>Build a parallel code review pipeline with Agentspan using specialist agents that review the same code at the same time.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AGENTIC</category><category>ENGINEERING</category><category>SOLUTIONS</category><author>Deepti Reddy</author></item><item><title>Add Human Approval Checkpoints to Agentspan Workflows</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-add-human-approval-checkpoints-with-agentspan</link><guid 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GMT</pubDate><category>AGENTIC</category><category>ENGINEERING</category><category>SOLUTIONS</category><author>Deepti Reddy</author></item><item><title>How to Orchestrate Multi-Agent Workflows on Kubernetes with Agentspan</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-orchestrate-multi-agent-workflows-on-kubernetes-with-agentspan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/how-to-orchestrate-multi-agent-workflows-on-kubernetes-with-agentspan</guid><description>Deploy a durable multi-agent workflow on Kubernetes with Agentspan, K3d, and a crash-safe orchestration model.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AGENTIC</category><category>ENGINEERING</category><category>SOLUTIONS</category><author>Nick Lotz</author></item><item><title>AI Agents 101</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/ai-agents-101</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/ai-agents-101</guid><description>A practical introduction to AI agents, including loops, tools, memory, and how simple agents differ from more complex systems.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>INSIGHTS</category><category>AGENTIC</category><author>Maria Shimkovska</author></item><item><title>Build a durable incident-response agent with Agentspan</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/build-a-durable-incident-response-agent-with-agentspan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/build-a-durable-incident-response-agent-with-agentspan</guid><description>Build an incident-response agent that can investigate, pause for approval, and resume safely after crashes.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AGENTIC</category><category>ENGINEERING</category><category>SOLUTIONS</category><author>Nick Lotz</author></item><item><title>Open Sourcing Agentspan: Durable AI Agents</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/open-sourcing-agentspan-durable-ai-agents</link><guid 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A match made in heaven</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/orchestration-microservices-match-made-heaven</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/orchestration-microservices-match-made-heaven</guid><description>Orchestration provides a systematic approach to coordinating microservices and offers more visibility into process flows compared to choreography.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>ENGINEERING</category><author>Boney Sekh</author></item><item><title>The Genesis of Netflix Conductor</title><link>https://orkes.io/blog/the-genesis-of-netflix-conductor-orkes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://orkes.io/blog/the-genesis-of-netflix-conductor-orkes</guid><description>Find out how Conductor got its start as an open-source orchestration engine, originally built by Netflix to solve infrastructure issues in microservices.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>INSIGHTS</category><author>Jeu George</author></item></channel></rss>