Top WORKFLOW-ENGINE GitHub Repositories & Tools (2026)

Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows

Enterprise-grade, commercial-friendly agentic workflow platform for building next-generation SuperAgents.

Conductor is an event driven agentic workflow engine providing durable and highly resilient execution engine for applications and AI Agents

Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python.

The first open-source harness builder for AI coding. Make AI coding deterministic and repeatable.

A compact and highly efficient workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) platform for developers, system admins and business users.

Open-source TypeScript framework for building durable, resumable workflows. Supports Node.js and Bun.

Smithers is an agentic workflow framework for defining workflows in simple TypeScript configuration files and executing them quickly, durably, and reliably

Database-Backed Durable Python Workflows

Java framework for Cadence Workflow Service

Build workflows you can see, code, run, and own. Open-source visual workflow automation with real TypeScript, isolated execution, and a self-hosted Control API.

Workflow Runtime Engine based on the Open Workflow Specification (CNCF Sandbox project) for Agentic Workflows

Streaming AI pipelines in one YAML file. Tokens, audio chunks, and video frames flow between isolated components. Compose 100+ components for models, agents, speech, vision, and live broadcast. Run local models, cloud APIs, or both. Inspired by docker-compose.

Workflow Engine for Kubernetes

Core package for defining and running durable workflows and activities. Supports long-running persistent workflows, retries, queues, parallel execution, workflow monitoring, dedicated storage connections, and orchestration for microservices, data pipelines, sagas, agentic workflows, and other complex business processes.

🪓 An orchestration engine for background tasks, AI agents, and durable workflows