--- title: "trigger.dev" type: "tool" slug: "triggerdotdev-trigger-dev" canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/tools/triggerdotdev-trigger-dev" github_url: "https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev" homepage_url: "https://trigger.dev/changelog" stars: 15595 forks: 1346 primary_language: "TypeScript" license: "Apache-2.0" categories: ["ai-agents"] tags: ["background-jobs", "workflow-automation", "automation", "scheduler", "ai-agents"] updated_at: "2026-07-07T19:47:02.400134+00:00" --- # trigger.dev > Trigger.dev – build and deploy fully-managed AI agents and workflows An open-source platform for building durable, long-running tasks with retries, queues, observability, and elastic scaling in TypeScript. ## Facts - Repository: https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev - Homepage: https://trigger.dev/changelog - Stars: 15,595 · Forks: 1,346 · Open issues: 392 · Watchers: 50 - Primary language: TypeScript - License: Apache-2.0 - Last pushed: 2026-07-07T18:19:23+00:00 ## Categories - [AI Agents](/categories/ai-agents.md) ## Tags background-jobs, workflow-automation, automation, scheduler, ai-agents ## Related tools - [ECC](/tools/affaan-m-ecc.md) - The agent harness performance optimization system (★ 226,991) - [hermes-agent](/tools/nousresearch-hermes-agent.md) - The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research (★ 210,911) - [AutoGPT](/tools/significant-gravitas-autogpt.md) - AutoGPT: Build, Deploy, and Run AI Agents (★ 185,420) - [ollama](/tools/ollama-ollama.md) - Get up and running with Kimi-K2.6, GLM-5.1, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models. (★ 175,664) - [langflow](/tools/langflow-ai-langflow.md) - Langflow is a powerful platform for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows. (★ 151,311) - [dify](/tools/langgenius-dify.md) - Production-ready platform for agentic workflow development (★ 148,074) - [firecrawl](/tools/firecrawl-firecrawl.md) - The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. (★ 147,150) - [langchain](/tools/langchain-ai-langchain.md) - The agent engineering platform. (★ 141,215) ## README (excerpt) ```text
### Build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows [Website](https://trigger.dev) | [Docs](https://trigger.dev/docs) | [Issues](https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev/issues) | [Example projects](https://github.com/triggerdotdev/examples) | [Feature requests](https://triggerdev.featurebase.app/) | [Public roadmap](https://triggerdev.featurebase.app/roadmap) | [Self-hosting](https://trigger.dev/docs/self-hosting/overview)
## About Trigger.dev Trigger.dev is the open-source platform for building AI workflows in TypeScript. Long-running tasks with retries, queues, observability, and elastic scaling. ## The platform designed for building AI agents Build [AI agents](https://trigger.dev/product/ai-agents) using all the frameworks, services and LLMs you're used to, deploy them to Trigger.dev and get durable, long-running tasks with retries, queues, observability, and elastic scaling out of the box. - **Long-running without timeouts**: Execute your tasks with absolutely no timeouts, unlike AWS Lambda, Vercel, and other serverless platforms. - **Durability, retries & queues**: Build rock solid agents and AI applications using our durable tasks, retries, queues and idempotency. - **True runtime freedom**: Customize your deployed tasks with system packages – run browsers, Python scripts, FFmpeg and more. - **Human-in-the-loop**: Programmatically pause your tasks until a human can approve, reject or give feedback. - **Realtime apps & streaming**: Move your background jobs to the foreground by subscribing to runs or streaming AI responses to your app. - **Observability & monitoring**: Each run has full tracing and logs. Configure error alerts to catch bugs fast. ## Key features: - **[JavaScript and TypeScript SDK](https://trigger.dev/docs/tasks/overview)** - Build background tasks using familiar programming models - **[Long-running tasks](https://trigger.dev/docs/runs/max-duration)** - Handle resource-heavy tasks without timeouts - **[Durable cron schedules](https://trigger.dev/docs/tasks/scheduled#scheduled-tasks-cron)** - Create and attach recurring schedules of up to a year - **[Trigger.dev Realtime](https://trigger.dev/docs/realtime/overview)** - Trigger, subscribe to, and get real-time updates for runs, with LLM streaming support - **[Build extensions](https://trigger.dev/docs/config/extensions/overview#build-extensions)** - Hook directly into the build system and customize the build process. Run Python scripts, FFmpeg, browsers, and more. - **[React hooks](https://trigger.dev/docs/frontend/react-hooks#react-hooks)** - Interact with the Trigger.dev API on your frontend using our React hooks package - **[Batch triggering](https://trigger.dev/docs/triggering#tasks-batchtrigger)** - Use batchTrigger() to initiate multiple runs of a task with custom payloads and options - **[Structured inputs / outputs](https://trigger.dev/docs/tasks/schemaTask#schematask)** - Define precise data schemas for your tasks with runtime payload validation - **[Waits](https://trigger.dev/docs/wait)** - Add waits to your tasks to pause execution for a specified duration - **[Preview branches](https://trigger.dev/docs/deployment/preview-branches)** - Create isolated environments for testing and development. Integrates with Vercel and git workflows - **[Waitpoints](https://trigger.dev/docs/wait-for-token#wait-for-token)** - Add human-in-the-loop judgment at critical decision points without disrupting workflow - **[Concurrency & queues](https://trigger.dev/docs/queue-concurrency#concurrency-and-queues)** - Set concurrency rules to manage how multiple tasks execute - **[Multiple environments](https://trigger.dev/docs/how-it-works#dev-mode)** - Support for DEV, PREVIEW, STAGING, and PROD environments - **[No infrastructure to manage](https://trigger.dev/docs/how-it-works#trigger-dev-architecture)** - Auto-scaling infrastructure that eliminates timeouts and server management - **[Automatic retries]( ``` --- **Machine-readable endpoints** - JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/tools/triggerdotdev-trigger-dev`](/api/graphcanon/tools/triggerdotdev-trigger-dev) - LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt) - Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt) _GraphCanon - The knowledge graph for AI development. https://www.graphcanon.com/_