# Pushary vs Temporal

> Temporal has a score of 77.2 (BB) against Pushary's 51.4 (D). Both do hitl approve. The largest gap is reliability, 65 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-05

Temporal has a score of 77.2 (BB) against Pushary's 51.4 (D). Both do hitl approve. The largest gap is reliability, 65 points.

- Pushary: grade D, 51.4/100, rank #350 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pushary.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pushary.json
- Temporal: grade BB, 77.2/100, rank #21 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/temporal.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/temporal.json

## Which one, for what

Pick Pushary for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).

Pick Temporal for reliability (+65), schema & documentation (+18), agent ergonomics (+9), security & auth (+22), payments & pricing (+10), maintenance & community (+30), transparency & trust (+7).

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Pushary | Temporal | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 20 | 85 | Temporal +65 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 91 | Temporal +18 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 85 | Temporal +9 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 86 | Temporal +22 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 20 | Temporal +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 90 | Temporal +30 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 70 | Temporal +7 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **51.4 · D** | **77.2 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Pushary | Temporal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | Model platform |
| Vendor | Pushary | Temporal Technologies |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://pushary.com/api/mcp/mcp` | no (local only) |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT (skill, hooks and adapters) | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 6 | none |
| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |
| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `io.github.Pushary/pushary` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-15 |
| Popularity | none | none |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 3.6/5 (8) |

## Verdicts

**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.

## Before you call either

### 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

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