temporalio / temporalio/temporal

Make Nexus work out of the box with zero config

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Since Sep 8, 2025.

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Description

Start with

  • Allow temporal://system URLs always to be attached as callbacks.
  • Dispatch temporal://system callback URLs internally, automatically (see link below).

Then

Then update the SPEC and Nexus SDKs

  • In the Nexus SPEC.md, call out that the Nexus-Callback-Token is a standard header and that it is required as part of the StartOperation request.
  • In the Nexus SDKs (start with Go), add a CallbackToken []byte (or string TBD) field in StartOpertionOptions (called details, context) in the other SDKs.

Once the server can handle these new URLs, switch to using them

  • Behind a dynamic config, which can be deprecated in a few releases.
  • Default the server's callback URL to temporal://system.
    • The callback URL template, must be provided when making "external" calls but "worker" endpoints should use the temporal://system callback URL.
  • Figure out how to make this work in Cloud.

Reference

https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/blob/16b1e29b2a86eaf1a95e026e49e16f31f8c414aa/components/callbacks/fx.go#L45
https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/blob/16b1e29b2a86eaf1a95e026e49e16f31f8c414aa/components/nexusoperations/fx.go#L102-L111

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