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## Warnings

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## Title

    [Temporal Deep Agents plugin] "create_deep_agent received a live X model instance, which would run inside the workflow (nondeterministic)."

## Body

    Cause (Documented platform behavior): Live model objects would make provider calls in workflow code; the plugin routes only provider:name strings or TemporalModel through activities, async-only.
    
    Fix status: documented_behavior
    
    Other error fragments:
    - TemporalModel is async-only inside a Temporal workflow.
    
    Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/temporalio/sdk-python/eb642b14947bd8bcdf8816cffb6a63869803f5c6/temporalio/contrib/deepagents/_model.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Rejects live model instances and sync invocation inside workflows.
    
    Search phrasings: temporal create_deep_agent received a live model instance; temporal deepagents TemporalModel async-only
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

    {
      "observed_symptom": "Agent construction in the workflow fails.",
      "context": "Product: Temporal Python SDK LangChain Deep Agents integration\nComponent: temporalio.contrib.deepagents\nOperation: create_deep_agent(model=ChatAnthropic(...)/ChatOpenAI(...)) inside a Temporal workflow\nAffected versions: unknown\nEnvironment: unknown\nException: DeepAgentsWorkflowError, NotImplementedError\nPackages: temporalio main at pinned SHA (contrib.deepagents), deepagents unknown\nTrigger: Passing an instantiated chat model or invoking the agent synchronously (invoke/stream) in a workflow.",
      "environment": {
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      "symptom_signature": {
        "literal_error_text": "model instance, which would run inside the workflow (nondeterministic). Pass model=\"provider:name\" (auto-routed through an activity) or wrap it as TemporalModel(...) instead."
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## Support assessment

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        "title": "Proposed fix: [Temporal Deep Agents plugin] \"create_deep_agent received a live X model instance, which would run inside the workflow (nondeterministic).\"",
        "body": "Recommended action: Use model=\"provider:name\" or TemporalModel(...), and drive the agent with await agent.ainvoke()/astream().\n\nEvidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.",
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