# Standalone Nexus Operation

> Learn about Standalone Nexus Operations in Temporal, their benefits, execution model, and when to use them.

> **Pre-release** — Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, .NET
> APIs are experimental and may be subject to backwards-incompatible changes.

## What is a Standalone Nexus Operation? 

A Standalone Nexus Operation is a top-level [Nexus Operation Execution](/nexus/operations) started
directly by a [Client](/encyclopedia/temporal-sdks#temporal-client), without using a caller
Workflow. Instead of calling a Nexus Operation from within a Workflow Definition, you execute it
directly from a Nexus Client created from the Temporal SDK Client and bound to a
[Nexus Endpoint](/nexus/endpoints) and Service.

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```bash title="macOS (Apple Silicon)"
curl -L https://github.com/temporalio/cli/releases/download/v1.7.4-standalone-nexus-operations/temporal_cli_1.7.4-standalone-nexus-operations_darwin_arm64.tar.gz | tar xz
```
```bash title="macOS (Intel)"
curl -L https://github.com/temporalio/cli/releases/download/v1.7.4-standalone-nexus-operations/temporal_cli_1.7.4-standalone-nexus-operations_darwin_amd64.tar.gz | tar xz
```
```bash title="Linux (arm64)"
curl -L https://github.com/temporalio/cli/releases/download/v1.7.4-standalone-nexus-operations/temporal_cli_1.7.4-standalone-nexus-operations_linux_arm64.tar.gz | tar xz
```
```bash title="Linux (amd64)"
curl -L https://github.com/temporalio/cli/releases/download/v1.7.4-standalone-nexus-operations/temporal_cli_1.7.4-standalone-nexus-operations_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar xz
```
```bash
./temporal --version
# temporal version 1.7.4-standalone-nexus-operations
```