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# Durable Execution

Pydantic AI allows you to build durable agents that can preserve their progress across transient API failures and application errors or restarts, and handle long-running, asynchronous, and human-in-the-loop workflows with production-grade reliability. Durable agents have full support for [streaming](/docs/ai/core-concepts/agent/#streaming-all-events) and [MCP](/docs/ai/mcp/client/), with the added benefit of fault tolerance.

Pydantic AI officially supports four durable execution solutions:

-   [Temporal](/docs/ai/capabilities/durable_execution/temporal/)
-   [DBOS](/docs/ai/capabilities/durable_execution/dbos/)
-   [Prefect](/docs/ai/capabilities/durable_execution/prefect/)
-   [Restate](/docs/ai/capabilities/durable_execution/restate/)

These integrations are co-maintained by the Pydantic and vendor teams. The Temporal, DBOS, and Prefect integrations ship with Pydantic AI as [capabilities](/docs/ai/capabilities/overview/) you attach to an agent; the [Restate](/docs/ai/capabilities/durable_execution/restate/) integration lives in the Restate SDK and builds only on Pydantic AI's public interface, so it can also serve as a reference for integrating with other durable systems.

Additional external SDK integrations:

-   [Kitaru](/docs/ai/capabilities/durable_execution/kitaru/)
-   [Apache Airflow](/docs/ai/capabilities/durable_execution/airflow/)