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Summary

  • Adds skill coverage for Standalone Activities (Public Preview) — Temporal's job-queue primitive that runs a single Activity as a top-level execution without a Workflow.
  • Six new reference files: a core concept page, a temporal activity CLI reference, and per-SDK quickstarts for Python, Go, Java, and .NET.
  • SKILL.md gains a new "Standalone Activities" section pointing at the new files and noting that TypeScript SDK coverage is upstream-pending (no develop/typescript/activities/standalone-activities.mdx exists yet).

Requires Temporal CLI v1.7.0+ and Server v1.31.0+. Public Preview in Temporal Cloud.

What's in the box

  • references/core/standalone-activities.md — concept, when-to-use vs. Workflow, dual-use, conflict/reuse policies, Public Preview limitations, observability, billing framing
  • references/core/standalone-activities-cli.md — every temporal activity subcommand under its own heading; flags Public Preview gaps for pause/reset/update-options
  • references/{python,go,java,dotnet}/standalone-activities.md — language-specific quickstarts following each upstream doc's section structure

Authored grounded against temporalio/documentation with inline citations on every non-trivial claim. Methodology and remaining VERIFY markers are captured in AUTHORING_LOG.md; the authoring plan is in STANDALONE_ACTIVITIES_AUTHORING_PLAN.md.

Known gaps (documented as VERIFY markers, not invented)

  • The four SDK docs do not yet show conflict-policy / reuse-policy parameter wiring (Python kwargs, Go fields, Java builders, .NET options). The encyclopedia lists the policy values (USE_EXISTING, REJECT_DUPLICATES; TerminateExisting / TerminateIfRunning unsupported in Public Preview) but the per-language API names need to be confirmed against godoc/javadoc/etc. before snippets are added.
  • TypeScript SDK has no upstream Standalone Activities doc; not authored here.

Test plan

  • Spot-check 5 random citations resolve to the cited doc lines
  • Confirm Public Preview limitations (no TerminateExisting / TerminateIfRunning, no pause/reset/update-options) appear in both core file and CLI file
  • Confirm version requirements (CLI v1.7.0+, Server v1.31.0+) appear consistently
  • Confirm no TypeScript SDK file was added and SKILL.md flags the gap
  • Render SKILL.md locally and confirm the new section sits cleanly above "Task Queue Priority and Fairness"

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Adds skill coverage for Standalone Activities (Public Preview) — Temporal's
job-queue primitive that runs a single Activity as a top-level execution
without a Workflow. Requires CLI v1.7.0+ and Server v1.31.0+.

New reference files:
- core/standalone-activities.md — concept, dual-use, conflict/reuse policies,
  Public Preview limitations, observability, Cloud support
- core/standalone-activities-cli.md — temporal activity subcommand reference
- python/, go/, java/, dotnet/standalone-activities.md — per-SDK quickstarts

SKILL.md gains a Standalone Activities section pointing at the new files and
flagging that TypeScript SDK coverage is upstream-pending.

Authoring methodology and remaining VERIFY markers (mostly: per-language
conflict/reuse-policy parameter wiring is undocumented upstream) are captured
in AUTHORING_LOG.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@donald-pinckney donald-pinckney requested a review from a team as a code owner May 1, 2026 21:22
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