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`({ errors, context }, args)` where it was `(args, { errors, context })`.
oRPC is the reference shape for this family — the most widely used of the
three transports a `@btravstack/*` application composes, so a developer
arriving here has more likely seen `({ errors, context }, input)` than
either of the others. The mint and compose calls already agreed across
the three; the leaf a developer types by hand did not, and it is the one
they relearn per transport. `@amqp-contract` moves with it.
The swap is one line at the dispatch seam and one in the leaf's type;
everything else is the sweep. `@temporal-contract/testing`'s `runActivity`
and `runActivityHandler` carry the same order, since their
`implementation` is the same function.
Every implementation that READS its input stops compiling until it is
swapped — the first parameter is the helpers record now. One that ignores
its input keeps compiling with a parameter whose name lies, which is what
the upgrade guide's grep is for.
Closes #414
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughActivity implementations now receive helpers first and input second. Runtime dispatch, testing helpers, worker tests, examples, and documentation use the new signature. The workspace also pins ChangesActivity helpers-first contract
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283-286: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRemove the rationale TSDoc from the private type.
ResultActivityImplementationis private. Keep the implementation comment minimal, or move this migration rationale to the spec file.As per path instructions, rationale belongs in the spec file and private symbols should not receive TSDoc.
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🔵 Needs a closer look
It introduces a breaking signature change at a core dispatch boundary and touches many call sites/docs, so it warrants final human verification despite appearing mechanically consistent.
Pull request overview
This PR performs a breaking but ecosystem-aligning API change for @temporal-contract/worker activities: activity “leaf” implementations now receive helpers first, input second ((helpers, args)), converging on oRPC’s parameter order and reducing relearning when moving use-cases across transports.
Changes:
- Swaps the activity implementation call signature in
declareActivitiesHandlerand updates the core activity implementation types accordingly. - Updates
@temporal-contract/testing(runActivity/runActivityHandler) to accept and invoke implementations with(helpers, args). - Sweeps tests, examples, docs, READMEs, and agent rules to the new parameter order.
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| File | Description |
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| README.md | Updates top-level README example to the helpers-first leaf signature. |
| packages/worker/src/types-inference.spec.ts | Adjusts type-inference assertions for ActivityImplementationFor/GlobalActivityImplementationFor to helpers-first. |
| packages/worker/src/activity.ts | Changes the core activity implementation type and dispatch invocation to (helpers, args). |
| packages/worker/src/activity.spec.ts | Updates unit tests’ sample implementations to match helpers-first ordering (and drops unused params where applicable). |
| packages/worker/src/activity-contract-errors.spec.ts | Updates contract-error and context injection tests to destructure helpers from the first parameter. |
| packages/worker/src/tests/worker.spec.ts | Updates integration-level worker tests’ activity implementations to helpers-first. |
| packages/worker/src/tests/time-skipping.inprocess.spec.ts | Updates in-process time-skipping test activity leaf signatures to helpers-first. |
| packages/worker/src/tests/retry.inprocess.spec.ts | Updates retry behavior tests to the helpers-first leaf signature. |
| packages/worker/src/tests/replay.inprocess.spec.ts | Updates replay test activity implementations to helpers-first. |
| packages/worker/src/tests/rehydration.inprocess.spec.ts | Updates error rehydration tests to helpers-first. |
| packages/worker/src/tests/cancellation.inprocess.spec.ts | Updates cancellation test helper activity signature to accept helpers first. |
| packages/worker/src/tests/activity-options.inprocess.spec.ts | Updates activity options test helper activity signature to accept helpers first. |
| packages/worker/README.md | Updates package README examples to helpers-first. |
| packages/testing/src/activity.ts | Updates RunActivityImplementation type and runActivity invocation to (helpers, args). |
| packages/testing/src/activity.spec.ts | Updates testing package specs to pass implementations with helpers-first ordering. |
| packages/testing/src/tests/contract-test.spec.ts | Updates contract-test fixture activities to helpers-first. |
| examples/order-processing-worker/src/application/activities.ts | Updates example worker implementations and explanatory comments to helpers-first. |
| docs/tutorial/your-first-workflow.md | Updates tutorial snippets to helpers-first. |
| docs/reference/worker-surface.md | Updates reference signature and examples to helpers-first and clarifies the unused-helpers convention. |
| docs/reference/testing-surface.md | Updates testing surface docs to (helpers, args) across both helpers. |
| docs/index.md | Updates docs index example snippet to helpers-first. |
| docs/how-to/upgrade-to-v8.md | Adds a new breaking-change section documenting the helpers-first swap and migration grep guidance. |
| docs/how-to/test-workflows.md | Updates activity testing examples/comments to helpers-first. |
| docs/how-to/model-domain-errors.md | Updates “raise domain error from an activity” docs to helpers-first helpers destructuring. |
| docs/how-to/migrate-from-neverthrow.md | Updates migration example snippet to helpers-first. |
| docs/how-to/implement-activities.md | Updates implementation guide snippets and explanatory text to helpers-first. |
| docs/how-to/handle-cancellation.md | Updates cancellation how-to examples to helpers-first. |
| docs/how-to/add-activity-middleware.md | Updates middleware how-to examples to helpers-first (context now in first param). |
| docs/explanation/nexus.md | Updates Nexus explanation example snippet to helpers-first. |
| .changeset/activity-leaf-helpers-first.md | Adds a major-version changeset describing the breaking API change and migration guidance. |
| .agents/rules/handlers.md | Updates agent rules to state helpers-first ordering and the recommended unused-helpers convention. |
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Review: the upgrade guide's grep said "not a helpers destructuring", which reports `(_, args)` — the very form the section above documents for a leaf that consumes neither errors nor context. Both forms are named now. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GGixjxi5AQ2cNK62bBymfF
…q98-2v4g CI's Security Audit went red on this branch for a reason that has nothing to do with it: two High advisories published against browserslist <=4.28.6, which reaches the tree through examples/order-processing-worker > @temporalio/worker > webpack — the workflow bundler, a build path no published package carries. main is green only by age; its last CI run predates the advisories. Nothing upstream to take — @temporalio/worker resolves the vulnerable line itself — so an override on the same terms as the ten beside it, with the advisories, the path and the re-measurement in the comment. After it: `pnpm audit --audit-level=high` finds nothing, and the workflow bundle still builds (integration 71 + 19 + 8, unchanged). Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GGixjxi5AQ2cNK62bBymfF
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Pushed cbe1aa2 for a red CI job unrelated to this PR: Security Audit went down on two High advisories against Nothing upstream to take, so an override on the same terms as the ten beside it in Say the word if you would rather have it as its own PR and this one rebased on top. |
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Measured against `@orpc/server@2.0.0-beta.28` rather than taken from the
issue: `ProcedureHandler` is `(opts, input)` where `opts` ALSO carries
`input`, so oRPC's documented single-record spelling and the positional
one are the same call — and this repo's own consumers use both
(`examples` write `({ errors, context }, input)`, http-server's type
tests write `(opts) => opts.context…`).
What shipped in this branch offered only the positional half. `args` is
on `ActivityImplementationHelpers` now, so `({ errors, args }) => …`
reads the whole call off one destructuring, `({ errors }, args) => …`
takes the shortcut, and `(_, args) => …` stays the shape for an
implementation that consumes neither.
The same record reaches `@temporal-contract/testing`'s `runActivity`.
Gated by a spec that writes the single-record form and runs it through
the real handler.
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Pushed 905ef8c for the same reason as btravstack/amqp-contract#671 — I checked oRPC's actual types instead of trusting the issue's table.
interface ProcedureHandler<...> {
(opts: ProcedureHandlerOptions<...>, input: TInput): Promisable<THandlerOutput>;
}
// ProcedureHandlerOptions = { context, input, path, procedure, signal, lastEventId, errors }Two parameters, and the input is on This branch had offered only the positional half. place: ({ errors, args }) => … // everything off one destructuring
place: ({ errors }, args) => … // the positional shortcut
place: (_, args) => … // consumes neither errors nor context
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…input`
Your two review notes, answered together.
**`input`, not `args`.** It is oRPC's word, and the same name on all
three transports is the whole point — a developer moving between them
destructures `input` in each, where a local synonym per library
reintroduces exactly the relearning these changes exist to delete. The
positional parameter is still whatever the author names it.
**The `_` placeholder is gone.** With the input on the record, a leaf
that wants only its input is `({ input }) => …` — no placeholder to
promote. Every sample, spec and doc reads the record now; the positional
form survives where a page deliberately shows it as the alternative
oRPC also offers, and nowhere else.
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Carrying btravstack/temporal-contract#415's two review notes across, so the two libraries answer the same way. **`input`, not `message`.** It is oRPC's word, and the same name on all three transports is the whole point — a developer moving between them destructures `input` in each, where a local synonym per library reintroduces the relearning these changes exist to delete. The positional parameter is still whatever the author names it, `message` included. **The `_` placeholder is gone.** With the message on the record, a handler that wants only it is `({ input: { payload } }) => …` — no placeholder to promote. Every sample, spec and doc reads the record now; the positional form survives where a page shows it as the alternative oRPC also offers, and nowhere else. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GGixjxi5AQ2cNK62bBymfF
Review: the rule quoted `({ errors, args })`, which the rename left
behind — the record carries `input`, so the sample did not type-check.
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Carrying btravstack/temporal-contract#415's two review notes across, so the two libraries answer the same way. **`input`, not `message`.** It is oRPC's word, and the same name on all three transports is the whole point — a developer moving between them destructures `input` in each, where a local synonym per library reintroduces the relearning these changes exist to delete. The positional parameter is still whatever the author names it, `message` included. **The `_` placeholder is gone.** With the message on the record, a handler that wants only it is `({ input: { payload } }) => …` — no placeholder to promote. Every sample, spec and doc reads the record now; the positional form survives where a page shows it as the alternative oRPC also offers, and nowhere else. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GGixjxi5AQ2cNK62bBymfF
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The convergence #207 asked for shipped upstream (btravstack/temporal-contract#415, btravstack/amqp-contract#671), so this takes the betas and moves everything here onto them: one record carrying everything the invocation has, the input included, on all three transports — which is what an oRPC controller already took. `input` on every transport, not `args` or `message`: a local synonym would put the relearning back on the one field every leaf touches. The positional second parameter survives because oRPC has it too. Two behaviour changes ride along, both from amqp-contract: - an unreachable broker is a modeled `ConnectionError`, so the starter names it instead of recovering EVERY defect to reach it — the blanket `recoverDefect` is gone, and a genuine startup bug now keeps exit 70 where a broker that will not answer earns 1 (amqp-contract#645, filed from this repository); - a topology the broker refuses fails `create()` as a defect rather than handing back a worker whose queues do not exist (amqp-contract#675). The CLAUDE.md section that opened this PR described the divergence as pending; it records what shipped now, including the duplication oRPC itself has, and keeps the naming asymmetry as the one decision still not made. Closes #207 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GGixjxi5AQ2cNK62bBymfF
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Closes #414.
oRPC is the reference shape for this family — the most widely used of the three
transports a
@btravstack/*application composes, so a developer arriving herehas more likely seen
({ errors, context }, input)than either of the others.The mint and compose calls already agreed across the three; the leaf a developer
types by hand did not, and it is the one they relearn per transport.
@amqp-contractmoves with it (btravstack/amqp-contract#670).What changed
The swap itself is two lines — the dispatch seam in
declareActivitiesHandlerand the leaf's type — plus the same order on the standalone annotations
(
ActivityImplementationFor,GlobalActivityImplementationFor) and on@temporal-contract/testing'srunActivity/runActivityHandler, whoseimplementationoption IS that function. Everything else in the diff is thesweep: 41 implementations across the specs, the example worker, the docs site,
the READMEs and the agent rules.
What the compiler does and does not catch
Reads its input → fails to compile, since the first parameter is now the
helpers record. Ignores its input → keeps compiling, with a parameter whose
name lies. That asymmetry is stated in the upgrade guide's new section (§15)
along with the grep for it, and it is why the sweep here was done by reading
every implementations map rather than by chasing the error list.
A leaf that consumes neither typed errors nor injected context still names the
position:
(_, args) => .... Where both were already unused, the leaf is nowjust
() => ....Gate
format --check,lint(0 warnings),typecheck12/12,knip,build,unit 9/9, and the integration tier against a real time-skipping server —
worker 14 files / 71 tests, client 19 — all green.
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