Embodiments include a method for temporary pipeline marking for processor error workarounds. The method includes monitoring an execution unit pipeline of a processor for an event associated with a programmable instruction operational code that is predetermined to cause a stuck state resulting in an errant instruction execution. The execution unit pipeline is marked for a workaround action based on detecting the event. A clearing action is triggered based on the marking, where the triggering is conditionally triggered by a next instruction in the execution unit pipeline having a same instruction type as the programmable instruction operational code. The marking of the pipeline is cleared based on the triggering of the clearing action, where the clearing action is a subsequent pipeline flush event based on the next instruction having the same instruction type reaching a same pipeline stage that results in a stuck state prior to completion of the next instruction.