conductor-oss--conductor/docs/devguide/cookbook/index.md

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Conductor cookbook — copy-paste workflow orchestration recipes for microservice orchestration, dynamic parallelism, event-driven patterns, AI agent orchestration, LLM orchestration, workflow automation, and RAG pipelines.

Cookbook

Production-ready workflow recipes. Each recipe includes the complete JSON workflow definition and commands to register and run it.

• Microservice orchestration

  HTTP service chains, conditional branching, parallel HTTP calls with Fork/Join.

• Dynamic parallelism

  Dynamic forks — different tasks per branch, fan-out with same task, parallel sub-workflows.

• Wait and timer patterns

  Fixed delays, scheduled execution, external signals, and human-in-the-loop approvals.

• Task timeouts and retries

  Exponential backoff with cap and jitter, lease extension for long-running workers, hard SLA with totalTimeoutSeconds, and thundering herd prevention.

• Scheduled workflows

  Cron-triggered execution, catchup after downtime, bounded time windows, input parameterization, and concurrent execution handling.

• Event-driven recipes

  Publish to Kafka/NATS/RabbitMQ/SQS, event handlers to trigger workflows, complete tasks from events.

• AI & LLM orchestration recipes

  Chat completion, RAG pipelines, MCP agents with function calling, image generation, LLM-to-PDF, and provider configuration.

• Dynamic workflows as code

  Workflow as code in Python — sequential chains, conditional branching, parallel execution, loops, sub-workflows, and runtime-generated definitions.