Standalone Activity documentation by dandavison · Pull Request #4155 · temporalio/documentation

dandavison · 2026-01-27T16:45:06Z

Development branch for Standalone Activity documentation

Standalone Activity is currently in development, and due to reach Pre-release on March 11.

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Activities
Activity Execution
Develop
- Go SDK
  - Standalone Activities
- Python SDK
  - Standalone Activities
Encyclopedia
- Activities
Evaluate
- Development Production Features
  - Job Queue
Standalone Activity

To run a local server that supports Standalone Activity:

git clone https://github.com/temporalio/cli.git
cd cli
git fetch origin
git checkout release/v1.6.x-standalone-activity
go build ./cmd/temporal
./temporal server start-dev

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jsundai · 2026-02-10T16:40:46Z

Going to bring in the Job Queue feature page into the PR today - just fyi.

Signed-off-by: Phil Prasek <prasek@gmail.com>

prasek · 2026-02-25T01:20:55Z

added a commit: refine standalone activity encyclopedia and eval pages.

note there's a placeholder for CLI download URL users will need to use. We'll want to make sure that's used consistently in the dev guides too.

links to the SDK dev guides (Go/Python) are also broken until those other PRs land

dustin-temporal · 2026-02-25T15:50:20Z

Note: metrics updates for standalone activities should be merged when this PR is merged. That PR is here: #4241

prasek · 2026-02-26T00:51:29Z

docs/encyclopedia/activities/standalone-activity.mdx

+- Priority and fairness - multi-tenant fairness, weighted priority tiers, and safeguards against starvation of lower-weighted tasks
+- Visibility - list Activity Executions and view status, retry count, and last error
+- Manual completion by ID (or token): ignore activity return and wait for external completion
+- Activity metrics - including counts for success, failure, timeout, and cancel


Suggested change

- Activity metrics - including counts for success, failure, timeout, and cancel

- [Activity metrics](/cloud/metrics/openmetrics/metrics-reference.mdx#activity-metrics) - including counts for success, failure, timeout, and cancel

@jsundai for when PR #4241 lands

@jsundai looks like both PRs can be merged together when were ready: #4155 (comment)

…ities, fix capitalization, add todo placeholder for python cloud, consistency in sidebar, add clone instructions for python

prasek · 2026-03-05T12:45:51Z

docs/develop/go/standalone-activities.mdx

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+- Install the latest Temporal CLI
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+  🚧 Please build from development branch: https://github.com/temporalio/cli/tree/release/v1.6.x-standalone-activity


We need the official CLI version with a link to download before these docs are merged

@dandavison can you add the min recommended CLI and Go SDK versions when available? /cc @yuandrew

prasek · 2026-03-05T12:48:17Z

docs/develop/python/standalone-activities.mdx

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+This documentation uses source code derived from the [Python sample](https://github.com/temporalio/samples-python/blob/main/hello/hello_standalone_activity.py).
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+<!-- TODO: Update with actual sample path when available -->


The sample path above looks good, are there any other changes needed for this TODO?

prasek · 2026-03-05T12:49:13Z

docs/develop/python/standalone-activities.mdx

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+- Install the latest Temporal CLI
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+  🚧 Please build from development branch: https://github.com/temporalio/cli/tree/release/v1.6.x-standalone-activity


We need the official CLI version with a link to download before these docs are merged

@dandavison can you add the min recommended CLI and Python SDK versions when available?

prasek

Overall lgtm, dropped a few comments

All code samples now use ClientConfig.load_client_connect_config() instead of hardcoding Client.connect("localhost:7233"), matching the Go approach. This means the same code works against both local dev server and Temporal Cloud without changes — just set environment variables or configure a TOML profile. The Cloud section is collapsed from ~130 lines of duplicated setup (cert generation, tcld install, namespace creation, duplicate code samples) to a concise reference that links to the temporal-client page for full details. Go matches the Python standalone activities pattern: add an info callout explaining that all samples use envconfig (so they work against both local and Cloud without code changes), and collapse the Cloud section from ~95 lines of duplicated setup to a concise env var reference with a link to the temporal-client page.

github-actions · 2026-03-09T14:16:06Z

Activities
Activity Execution
Develop
- Go SDK
  - Standalone Activities
- Python SDK
  - Standalone Activities
Encyclopedia
- Activities
Evaluate
- Development Production Features
  - Job Queue
Standalone Activity

github-actions · 2026-03-09T16:37:04Z

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	- Activity metrics - including counts for success, failure, timeout, and cancel
	- [Activity metrics](/cloud/metrics/openmetrics/metrics-reference.mdx#activity-metrics) - including counts for success, failure, timeout, and cancel


		- Install the latest Temporal CLI

		🚧 Please build from development branch: https://github.com/temporalio/cli/tree/release/v1.6.x-standalone-activity


		This documentation uses source code derived from the [Python sample](https://github.com/temporalio/samples-python/blob/main/hello/hello_standalone_activity.py).

		<!-- TODO: Update with actual sample path when available -->

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