{
  "slug": "temporal-activity-adds-standalone-activity-lifecycle-commands-cc5a175a4148",
  "title": "temporal activity adds standalone activity lifecycle commands",
  "tools": [
    "temporal"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "agent"
  ],
  "introduced_at": "2026-09-14T21:33:35.000Z",
  "announced_at": "2026-09-14T21:33:35.000Z",
  "effective_at": null,
  "date_basis": "source-publication",
  "status": "unknown",
  "how": {
    "incantation": "When you need to operate a Standalone Activity, use `temporal activity` to start or execute it, inspect it, wait for its result, or control it by Activity ID. Pause, unpause, reset, and update-options are Experimental; use a list-filter query for supported batch actions.",
    "examples": [
      "temporal activity start --activity-id <activity-id> --type <activity-type> --task-queue <task-queue> --start-to-close-timeout 5m --input '{\"some-key\":\"some-value\"}'",
      "temporal activity describe --activity-id <activity-id>\ntemporal activity result --activity-id <activity-id>",
      "temporal activity cancel --query '<list-filter>' --reason <reason>"
    ],
    "gotchas": [
      "Version: v1.9.1",
      "Availability: `pause`, `unpause`, `reset`, and `update-options` remain Experimental.",
      "--activity-id (required): Activity ID used to target a specific activity; used by start, describe, result, and single-activity control commands.",
      "--type (required): Activity type to start.",
      "--task-queue (required): Task Queue for the activity start example.",
      "--start-to-close-timeout (required): Start-to-close timeout; the documented start example uses `5m`.",
      "--input: Activity input payload; the documented example supplies JSON.",
      "--run-id: Activity Run ID; if omitted for describe or result, the latest run is used.",
      "--query: List Filter query for matching activities; a query is required instead of `--activity-id` for batch cancel.",
      "--reason: Reason supplied with cancellation; also used for a batch operation.",
      "Prerequisite: Standalone Activities require Temporal CLI v1.9.1 or higher and Temporal Server v1.32.0 or higher.",
      "Prerequisite: Pause, unpause, reset, and update-options are Experimental.",
      "Works against the local dev server; the described flow can be tried without a Cloud namespace.",
      "Docs conflict: The release note broadly says operator actions can be batched across a query. Official CLI documentation describes query batching for cancel, terminate, and delete; current Temporal documentation says batch pause, unpause, reset, and update-options are unsupported. Confirm the command’s version-specific support before relying on batching those actions."
    ]
  },
  "why_it_matters": "Operate a Standalone Activity from the CLI, including inspecting, waiting for, or controlling it.",
  "sources": [
    "https://github.com/temporalio/cli/releases/tag/v1.9.1",
    "https://github.com/temporalio/cli/blob/v1.9.1/internal/temporalcli/commands.yaml",
    "https://docs.temporal.io/cli/command-reference/activity",
    "https://github.com/temporalio/documentation/blob/main/docs/encyclopedia/activities/standalone-activity.mdx"
  ],
  "rank": 0.96039,
  "judge": {
    "publish": true,
    "judge_model": "codex-cli/gpt-6-luna+typesafe/jev-1.13.0",
    "prompt_version": "extract-v7+enrich-v2+judge-v2x3+jev-publish-v1"
  },
  "review_state": "approved",
  "provenance": {
    "run_id": "wave2b-20261017",
    "verdict_id": "wave2b-20261017:wave2b-20261017-1f6fd8996066ce81-3:gate",
    "evidence_hash": "c3565662a370ff5534e05f1d56990cebc57360f9e6c173807d3708efd1e4d2ab"
  },
  "review": {
    "draft_hash": "6c0052e593c2259c24478ad0b6a3b62aa05f91437703dbb26e98420b0eb50f18",
    "reviewer": "publication-gate",
    "reviewed_at": "2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z",
    "decision": "wave2b-20261017:gate",
    "reason": "3 of 3 judge runs approved with p_yes >= 0.9 (mean 0.96 >= 0.9; 2 needed) and Jev gave 0.72 (>= 0.6 needed)."
  }
}