{
  "slug": "temporal-standalone-activity-start-supports-start-delay-6f5ab4e2548e",
  "title": "temporal standalone activity start supports start delay",
  "tools": [
    "temporal"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "agent"
  ],
  "introduced_at": "2026-09-11T22:39:54.000Z",
  "announced_at": "2026-09-11T22:39:54.000Z",
  "effective_at": null,
  "date_basis": "source-publication",
  "status": "unknown",
  "how": {
    "incantation": "When starting a standalone activity, pass `--start-delay <duration>` to delay its first task; then describe it by activity ID (and optionally run ID) to inspect the result. The v1.9.0 release note says describe text output exposes `StartDelay`.",
    "examples": [
      "temporal activity start --activity-id <ActivityId> --type <ActivityType> --task-queue <TaskQueue> --start-to-close-timeout 30s --start-delay 2s",
      "temporal activity describe --activity-id <ActivityId> --run-id <RunId>"
    ],
    "gotchas": [
      "Version: v1.9.0",
      "`--activity-id` (required): Activity ID.",
      "`--type` (required): Activity Type name.",
      "`--task-queue` (required): Activity task queue.",
      "`--start-to-close-timeout`: Maximum time for one activity attempt; either this or `--schedule-to-close-timeout` is required.",
      "`--start-delay`: Duration before dispatching the first activity task; it does not apply to retry attempts.",
      "`--run-id`: Activity Run ID; if omitted, describe targets the latest run.",
      "Prerequisite: Current Temporal documentation says standalone activities require Temporal CLI v1.9.1 or higher and Temporal Server v1.32.0 or higher.",
      "Support is for standalone activity start/execute options.",
      "`StartDelay` is exposed in activity describe text output.",
      "Docs conflict: Current Temporal documentation sets the minimum CLI version for standalone activities to v1.9.1, while this card describes v1.9.0 support. The release page says v1.9.0 was published as a pre-release only; v1.9.1 is the first official v1.9.x release. https://github.com/temporalio/cli/releases"
    ]
  },
  "why_it_matters": "Start a standalone activity with a delay and verify the delay in its description.",
  "sources": [
    "https://github.com/temporalio/cli/releases/tag/v1.9.0",
    "https://github.com/temporalio/cli/pull/1113",
    "https://github.com/temporal/documentation/blob/main/docs/cli/command-reference/activity.mdx",
    "https://github.com/temporal/documentation/blob/main/docs/encyclopedia/activities/standalone-activity.mdx"
  ],
  "rank": 0.96017,
  "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-f2a84d249c375ed9-22:gate",
    "evidence_hash": "e6b80fc07fa621af659933ccc5df50dd49dc32bca98f16f9853be4bc8548967f"
  },
  "review": {
    "draft_hash": "49819429f8b1e370a413b9f153d18a322b8b7efe176237259626a580953e7c63",
    "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 0.73 (>= 0.6 needed)."
  }
}