docs: clarify continue-as-new behavior for child workflows #5021#5130
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Pre-review for @marcduiker handoff: LGTM with nits.
- The continue-as-new alert boxes are a useful clarification for the monitor pattern and infinite loop sections.
- Comment improvements (replacing generic placeholders with business-logic descriptions) are a nice polish.
- The maintainer-guide.md changes (azd auth login, remove stale SDK doc pull section) overlap with #5083 and #5101 from the same author — Marc, one of these three PRs has the maintainer-guide fix and all appear to land the same change. Confirm only one gets merged to avoid conflicts.
- Nit: the Python comment fix from
# Apply some compensating workto# Add logic here to undo partial changesaccidentally appears under a JS code block (// Add logic here...) — the JS block fix looks correct; the Python snippet looks fine too.
Nothing blocking — Marc, your call.
This was referenced May 19, 2026
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Description
This PR addresses issue #5021 by explicitly clarifying the behavior of the
continue-as-newAPI regarding unawaited child workflows. This is a critical detail for developers implementing the Monitor Pattern, ascontinue-as-newproceeds immediately and does not wait for child workflows started viaCallChildWorkflowAsync(or equivalent SDK methods) unless they are explicitly awaited.Key Changes:
{{% alert %}}boxes to the Monitor pattern section inworkflow-patterns.mdand the Infinite loops section inworkflow-features-concepts.md.// Do some work) have been replaced with descriptive, professional business logic markers (e.g.,// Initial business logic (e.g., inventory check)).#in JS blocks) and typos ("cancled" to "cancelled").Issue reference
Closes #5021