I tried to adapt the greeting example to include Protobuf message EchoRequest { string message = 1; } @workflow.defn class GreetingWorkflowProtobuf: @workflow.run async def run(self, request: template_pb2.EchoRequest) -> str: return await workflow.execute_activity( compose_greeting, ComposeGreetingInput("Hello", request.message), start_to_close_timeout=timedelta(seconds=10), # Always set a heartbeat timeout for long-running activities heartbeat_timeout=timedelta(seconds=2), ) But when I send the message from Temporal UI I get the following error setting the type as json/protobuf { "message": "Archie" } The default converters seem to include support for it (<temporalio.converter.BinaryNullPayloadConverter object at 0x000001E2C833BE00>, <temporalio.converter.BinaryPlainPayloadConverter object at 0x000001E2C87C4050>, <temporalio.converter.JSONProtoPayloadConverter object at 0x000001E2C87C41A0>, <temporalio.converter.BinaryProtoPayloadConverter object at 0x000001E2C87C42F0>, <temporalio.converter.JSONPlainPayloadConverter object at 0x000001E2C87C4440>) Continue reading...