{
  "slug": "temporal-cli-adds-experimental-workflow-pause-and-unpause-commands-ab24e1067f90",
  "title": "Temporal CLI adds experimental workflow pause and unpause commands",
  "tools": [
    "temporal"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "agent"
  ],
  "introduced_at": "2026-02-05T15:35:29.000Z",
  "announced_at": "2026-02-05T15:35:29.000Z",
  "effective_at": null,
  "date_basis": "source-publication",
  "status": "unknown",
  "how": {
    "incantation": "When a specific Workflow Execution needs to be held without terminating it, run `temporal workflow pause` with its workflow ID; when it can continue, run `temporal workflow unpause` with that ID.",
    "examples": [
      "temporal workflow pause --workflow-id <WorkflowId> --reason \"<reason>\"",
      "temporal workflow unpause --workflow-id <WorkflowId> --reason \"<reason>\""
    ],
    "gotchas": [
      "Version: v1.6.0",
      "Availability: experimental",
      "--workflow-id (required): Identifies the Workflow Execution to pause or unpause.",
      "--reason: Reason recorded for the pause or unpause operation.",
      "Prerequisite: Temporal CLI v1.6.0 or later.",
      "Prerequisite: Self-hosted Temporal requires Server v1.30.0 or later with `frontend.WorkflowPauseEnabled` enabled.",
      "Prerequisite: Temporal Cloud prerelease access is invite-only."
    ]
  },
  "why_it_matters": "Pause or resume a workflow from the Temporal CLI.",
  "sources": [
    "https://github.com/temporalio/cli/releases/tag/v1.6.0",
    "https://github.com/temporalio/cli/pull/885",
    "https://github.com/temporalio/cli/pull/914",
    "https://github.com/temporalio/documentation/blob/main/docs/encyclopedia/workflow/workflow-pause.mdx"
  ],
  "rank": 0.9402,
  "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-20261017-75910f05bdf05cbd-10:gate",
    "evidence_hash": "4bdf829b426420af68752ae52164f332687e915629357b8c169ceb8197a030d7"
  },
  "review": {
    "draft_hash": "59300c66f604e863a42a3a6bcf00d5d41c05c9b3f66a57d9205ec19e573562fa",
    "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 0.94 >= 0.9; 2 needed) and Jev gave 0.78 (>= 0.6 needed)."
  }
}