# Building long-running interactive MCP tools with Temporal

DevFeed: [Building long-running interactive MCP tools with Temporal](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-long-running-interactive-mcp-tools-with-temporal-35746.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/building-long-running-interactive-mcp-tools-temporal>)

Author: Joshua Smith

Published: 2025-08-21T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [Model Context Protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-context-protocol.md>), [Orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/orchestration.md>), [Building AI Systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/building-ai-systems.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

Tags: [agentic-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-ai.md>), [durability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/durability.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [interactive](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interactive.md>), [long-running](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/long-running.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [model-context-protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model-context-protocol.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to build long-running, interactive MCP tools with Temporal Workflows. It describes using MCP to trigger, monitor, and interact with durable workflows, including workflows that wait for human approval, while Temporal handles orchestration, memory, timeouts, and retries.

## Source excerpt

Learn how to interact with a long-running tool workflow using MCP from one of our Solutions Architects, Josh Smith.