# hatchet-dev/hatchet

🪓 An orchestration engine for background tasks, AI agents, and durable workflows

Repository: https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hatchet
Homepage: https://hatchet.run
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: event-driven, golang, workflow-engine, distributed, distributed-systems, fastapi, nodejs, python, queue, typescript, concurrency, dag, durable-execution
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:17:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 89/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 70
- inputs: {"age_days": 992, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 8, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 310}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7792, forks 478 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:05.060296+00:00)

## What it is
Hatchet is an open-source (MIT) orchestration engine for background tasks, AI agents, and durable workflows, available as a cloud service or self-hosted. It provides queuing, automatic retries, durable execution, DAGs, concurrency and rate limiting, plus real-time monitoring, alerting, and logging, with SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, and Ruby.

## Use cases
- run background jobs with automatic retries
- orchestrate AI agent workflows durably
- schedule cron and event-triggered tasks
- build DAG pipelines with dependencies
- replace Celery or Temporal for task orchestration
- self-host a task queue with monitoring and replay
- rate-limit and control concurrency of task execution

## When to choose
- you need durable, replayable workflows with retries and observability
- you want one platform for background tasks, cron, events, and AI agents
- you need SDKs across Python, TypeScript, Go, or Ruby
- you want a self-hostable MIT-licensed alternative to Temporal or Celery

## When to avoid
- you only need simple in-process async scheduling without persistence
- you cannot run Postgres-backed infrastructure or prefer a lightweight queue
- your workflows are purely static data pipelines better served by Airflow-style tools

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: workflow-automation, scheduling, message-queue, monitoring, agent-framework, rate-limiting, webhook
- domain: microservices, backend, developer-tools, self-hosted
- platform: go, python, self-hosted, cloud, cross-platform
- tags: durable-execution, task-queue, workflow-engine, dag, background-jobs, celery-alternative, temporal-alternative, event-driven, automation, ai-agents, nodejs, docker

## Member repositories
- hatchet-dev/hatchet (main) score 89

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:05.060296+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:34:39.007342+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:05.060296+00:00, sha 01141dbd5255)
  - homepage: https://hatchet.run (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:59.163726+00:00, sha 8d7ff6aae0cc)
  - site_page: https://docs.hatchet.run/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:59.170142+00:00, sha a7d4732f838d)
  - site_page: https://docs.hatchet.run/reference/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:59.172475+00:00, sha 5c8356e5b4d3)
  - site_page: https://docs.hatchet.run/v1/quickstart (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:59.174039+00:00, sha 98981696f152)
  - site_page: https://docs.hatchet.run/home (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:59.175714+00:00, sha a7d4732f838d)
  - site_page: https://hatchet.run/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:59.166719+00:00, sha 467df28d4ae9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.