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description: Conductor is an open-source platform for building production-grade AI agents and workflows. Originally created by Netflix Engineering — cloud agnostic, language agnostic, and deployment agnostic.
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<p class="home-skills-line">Using an AI coding agent? Install <a href="devguide/how-tos/conductor-skills.html">Conductor Skills</a>.</p>
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<span>Run conductor locally, register workflows and agents, and execute it end-to-end.</span>
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<summary>How do I run Conductor with Docker?</summary>
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<p>Run <code>docker run -p 8080:8080 conductoross/conductor:latest</code> to start Conductor with all dependencies included. The server will be available at <code>http://localhost:8080</code>. For production deployments with external persistence, see the <a href="devguide/running/deploy.html">production deployment guide</a>.</p>
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<summary>Is Conductor open source?</summary>
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<p>Yes. Conductor is a fully open source workflow engine, Apache 2.0 licensed. You can self-host it on your own infrastructure with no vendor lock-in. It supports 5 persistence backends, 6 message brokers, and runs anywhere Docker runs.</p>
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<summary>Is this the same as Netflix Conductor?</summary>
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<p>Yes. Conductor OSS is the continuation of the original Netflix Conductor repository after Netflix contributed the project to the open-source foundation.</p>
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<summary>Is this project actively maintained?</summary>
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<p>Yes. <a href="https://orkes.io">Orkes</a> is the primary maintainer of this repository and offers an enterprise SaaS platform for Conductor across all major cloud providers.</p>
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<summary>Can Conductor scale to handle my workload?</summary>
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<p>Conductor servers and workers scale independently. Use task domains, concurrency limits, persistence configuration, and metrics to match throughput and isolation to your environment.</p>
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<p>Yes. Conductor persists workflow and task state, supports recovery after worker and infrastructure failure, and exposes retries, timeouts, pause, resume, and termination controls.</p>
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<summary>Can I replay a workflow after it completes or fails?</summary>
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<p>Conductor supports restart, rerun, and retry controls. Execution-history retention depends on configuration, and <code>keepLastN</code> intentionally removes older loop iterations.</p>
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<summary>Are workflows always asynchronous?</summary>
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<p>No. While Conductor excels at asynchronous orchestration, it also supports synchronous workflow execution when immediate results are required.</p>
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<summary>Do I need to use a Conductor-specific framework?</summary>
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<p>No. Conductor is language and framework agnostic. Use your preferred language and framework—SDKs provide native integration for Java, Python, JavaScript, Go, C#, and more.</p>
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<summary>Isn't JSON too limited for complex workflows?</summary>
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<p>JSON keeps orchestration as machine-readable data while workers and built-in tasks perform business logic and side effects. Use validated runtime definitions, dynamic tasks, and dynamic forks when the path is selected at runtime.</p>
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<summary>Is Conductor a low-code/no-code platform?</summary>
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<p>No. Conductor is designed for developers who write code. While workflows can be defined in JSON, the power comes from building workers and tasks in your preferred programming language.</p>
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<summary>Can Conductor handle complex workflows?</summary>
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<p>Conductor was specifically designed for complex orchestration. It supports advanced patterns including nested loops, dynamic branching, sub-workflows, and workflows with thousands of tasks.</p>
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<summary>Is Netflix Conductor abandoned?</summary>
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<p>No. The original Netflix repository has transitioned to Conductor OSS, which is the new home for the project. Active development and maintenance continues here.</p>
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<summary>Is Orkes Conductor compatible with Conductor OSS?</summary>
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<p>100% compatible. Orkes Conductor is built on top of Conductor OSS, ensuring full compatibility between the open-source version and the enterprise offering.</p>
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<summary>Can Conductor orchestrate AI agents and LLMs?</summary>
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<p>Yes. Conductor provides native LLM tasks, MCP tool discovery and calls, human approval, and vector workflows for RAG. See the maintained Agents & AI documentation for provider and capability details.</p>
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<summary>What does Conductor provide for adaptive agents?</summary>
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<p>Conductor combines native AI and MCP tasks with durable loops, branches, fan-out, approval, retry, cancellation, and an inspectable execution history. Start with the governed adaptive graph.</p>
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