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Reword Standalone Activity Action note in user-facing terms
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Expand Up @@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ available endpoints are listed in the following sections:
## Activity {/* #activity */}

- **Activity started or retried**. Occurs each time an Activity is started or retried.
- **Standalone Activity started**. Occurs when a [Standalone Activity](/standalone-activity) is started.
- De-duplicated Standalone Activity starts that return an already-running Activity (sharing an Activity ID) do _not_
count as an Action, unless the start request tries to attach a callback to the running Activity — for example,
within a Nexus handler using the `USE_EXISTING` conflict policy.
- **Local Activity started**. All [Local Activities](/local-activity) associated with one Workflow Task count as a
single Action. Temporal Cloud counts all [RecordMarkers](/references/commands#recordmarker) from each Workflow Task as
one action, and not _N_ actions. Note:
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