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Custom Metadata Support for Workers in Temporal UI and CLI #12159

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@deepika-awasthi

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Workers currently only support identity information, which appears in the UI and CLI via temporal describe task queue. There's no way to attach custom metadata to workers (like environment, version, team ownership, etc.) unless using worker deployments or worker versioning. For users not using these features, there's no operational visibility into worker-specific metadata.

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Add support for custom metadata on workers that can be set during worker registration and viewed in both the Temporal UI and CLI. Example for Java SDK:
javaWorkerOptions options = WorkerOptions.newBuilder()
.setIdentity("worker-1")
.setMetadata(Map.of(
"environment", "production",
"version", "1.0.0",
"team", "platform"
))
.build();
The metadata should be displayed in the UI and in CLI commands like temporal describe task queue.
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  1. locked and limited conversation to collaborators on Sep 18, 2026
  2. converted this issue into a discussion #12160 on Sep 18, 2026
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