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Dev tools · December 6, 2023

Catalyst

Developer APIs for workflows, event-meshes and state

Catalyst launched on December 6, 2023 with 3 votes, #1,755 of 3,780 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

Catalyst is a set of developer APIs based on the popular Dapr open-source project for writing durable stateful workflows, event-driven architectures and secure and reliable services. Catalyst works with your existing infrastructure and code.

Build AI agents with durable workflows, service invocation, pub/sub messaging, and state management. Serverless, multi-region, and enterprise-ready.

Agentic Durable Execution: durable, verifiable workflows with secure agent and MCP communication — trusted by thousands of organizations. Works with any agent framework. Why the loop has to survive the process — seven stages of execution, and what each one could not do. Add durable workflows and enterprise-grade security without rewriting your code. "Conversations, tasks, and context—managed, not improvised." Agents communicate through event-driven messaging, not fragile callbacks. Built for the infrastructure realities of large organizations. Guarantee your applications execute workflows to completion, irrespective of crashes, outages or full cluster shutdowns. Visualize and observe every…from diagrid.io

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