Technical articles on AI scheduling, calendar infrastructure, and the agentic web.https://temporal-cortex.com/en-ushttps://temporal-cortex.com/blog/agent-to-agent-scheduling/https://temporal-cortex.com/blog/agent-to-agent-scheduling/When two AI agents negotiate a meeting, you get distributed systems problems. Here's how protocol negotiation, deadlock avoidance, and fallbacks work.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTa2aschedulingdistributed-systemsai-agentsprotocolshttps://temporal-cortex.com/blog/build-vs-embed-ai-scheduling/https://temporal-cortex.com/blog/build-vs-embed-ai-scheduling/A decision framework for developers: when to use calendar APIs directly, when to build your own time logic, and when you need scheduling infrastructure.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTarchitectureschedulingai-agentsinfrastructurehttps://temporal-cortex.com/blog/building-ai-recruiting-coordinator/https://temporal-cortex.com/blog/building-ai-recruiting-coordinator/End-to-end walkthrough: how to build a scheduling agent that coordinates interviews across US, Europe, and Asia using 5 tool calls.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTuse-caserecruitingtutorialschedulingai-agentshttps://temporal-cortex.com/blog/mcp-a2a-scheduling-layer/https://temporal-cortex.com/blog/mcp-a2a-scheduling-layer/MCP connects agents to tools. A2A connects agents to agents. Scheduling operations need both — and a fallback for when the other side has neither.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTmcpa2aprotocolsschedulinginfrastructurehttps://temporal-cortex.com/blog/property-based-testing-calendar-engine/https://temporal-cortex.com/blog/property-based-testing-calendar-engine/Property-based testing caught DST double-counting, leap year edge cases, and RRULE bugs that unit tests missed. Here's our proptest setup.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTtestingrusttruth-engineengineeringopen-sourcehttps://temporal-cortex.com/blog/sales-team-automated-scheduling/https://temporal-cortex.com/blog/sales-team-automated-scheduling/An SDR team recovered 13+ hours per day by replacing manual scheduling with 4 API calls. Here's the workflow, the math, and the code.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTuse-casesalesroischedulingai-agentshttps://temporal-cortex.com/blog/why-we-open-sourced-time-engine/https://temporal-cortex.com/blog/why-we-open-sourced-time-engine/Open-core means drawing a line. Here's why computation is open (trust demands it) and safety is commercial (sustainability demands it).Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTopen-sourceopen-coreengineeringbusinesshttps://temporal-cortex.com/blog/scheduling-is-infrastructure/https://temporal-cortex.com/blog/scheduling-is-infrastructure/Payments got Stripe. Messaging got Twilio. Scheduling is still duct-taped together. Here's why it needs dedicated infrastructure.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTinfrastructureschedulingai-agentsarchitecturehttps://temporal-cortex.com/blog/dst-transitions-calendar-agents/https://temporal-cortex.com/blog/dst-transitions-calendar-agents/A 9am weekly standup crosses spring-forward. Here's what goes wrong with naive implementations and how deterministic tools get it right.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTtemporal-reasoningtruth-engineschedulingdsthttps://temporal-cortex.com/blog/why-calendar-mcp-needs-locking/https://temporal-cortex.com/blog/why-calendar-mcp-needs-locking/Every calendar MCP server today is a CRUD wrapper with no locking. AI agents make this dangerous. Here's why.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTmcpschedulingtwo-phase-commitsafetyai-agentshttps://temporal-cortex.com/blog/build-first-scheduling-agent/https://temporal-cortex.com/blog/build-first-scheduling-agent/Step-by-step tutorial: install the MCP server, connect Google Calendar, and schedule a meeting in under 5 minutes.Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTtutorialmcpschedulingai-agentshttps://temporal-cortex.com/blog/what-is-toon/https://temporal-cortex.com/blog/what-is-toon/TOON reduces calendar payloads by ~40% vs JSON. Here's how it works, when to use it, and why it matters for AI agent context windows.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTtoonmcpai-agentsopen-sourcehttps://temporal-cortex.com/blog/double-booking-race-condition/https://temporal-cortex.com/blog/double-booking-race-condition/Two AI agents, one free slot. Without locking, both book it. Here's the race condition no other calendar MCP server prevents.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTschedulingmcptwo-phase-commitai-agentssafetyhttps://temporal-cortex.com/blog/llm-vs-truth-engine-rrule-showdown/https://temporal-cortex.com/blog/llm-vs-truth-engine-rrule-showdown/We ran 5 real-world RRULEs through frontier LLMs and the Truth Engine. The results show why calendar math needs computation, not prediction.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTtruth-enginerruletemporal-reasoningai-agentsbenchmarkshttps://temporal-cortex.com/blog/introducing-truth-engine/https://temporal-cortex.com/blog/introducing-truth-engine/Why we built a Rust-based RRULE expansion library with 9,000+ property-based tests — and why AI agents need it.Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTtruth-enginerustrruleopen-sourcehttps://temporal-cortex.com/blog/why-ai-agents-fail-at-scheduling/https://temporal-cortex.com/blog/why-ai-agents-fail-at-scheduling/LLMs score below 50% on temporal reasoning. Here's why calendar tools need deterministic computation, not more prompting.Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTtemporal-reasoningmcpai-agentsscheduling