Workflow Automation

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Conductor

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

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Kestra

Event Driven Orchestration & Scheduling Platform for Mission Critical Applications

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Activepieces

AI Agents & MCPs & AI Workflow Automation • (~400 MCP servers for AI agents) • AI Automation / AI Agent with MCPs • AI Workflows & AI Agents • MCPs for AI Agents

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Prefect

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

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Flyte

Dynamic AI orchestration platform for building workflows across data, models, and compute.

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Dagu

Self-hosted workflow engine for scripts, cron jobs, containers, and ops automation. YAML workflows, retries, logs, approvals, and optional distributed workers.

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Tracecat

Open-source security automation platform for teams and AI agents

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