Pushary vs Temporal

Pushary

Six small tools with a detailed skill that says when to ask, when to notify and when to stay quiet. No free plan, and the 3-day trial takes a card up front.

Temporal

Waits of any length with a timeout survive worker restarts and deploys. No reviewer inbox, notifications or routing, so the human side is all your code.

Pushary

1. Read answered, status and handoffAction on every result, and never treat a timeout as approval
2. Expect ask_user to return at once with answered: false when the user's mode is notify-only or terminal-only
3. Poll wait_for_answer once (it waits at most 55 seconds), then follow the handoff instead of looping
4. Cancel a live question with cancel_question before asking the same thing in chat
5. Group open decisions into one select question, since each push interrupts the user

Temporal

1. Put the decision in a typed Signal payload (approver, decision, comments, timestamp) instead of a bare boolean
2. Always wait with a timeout and treat the timeout path as a rejection or an escalation on purpose
3. Use the workflow ID as the approval ID, so the reviewer's tool only needs one value to send the Signal
4. Use an Update instead of a Signal when the approver's tool needs an acknowledgement back
5. Expect ResourceExhausted under load and let the SDK retry it, since signals are throttled last