# triggerdotdev/trigger.dev

Trigger.dev – build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows

Repository: https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/triggerdev
Homepage: https://trigger.dev/changelog
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: automation, orchestration, scheduler, background-jobs, nextjs, serverless, ai, ai-agents, mcp, mcp-server, workflow-automation, workflows, ai-agent-framework
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:04:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 94/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 86, longevity 98
- inputs: {"age_days": 1372, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 13, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 420}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 16135, forks 1421 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:14.819956+00:00)

## What it is
Trigger.dev is an open-source TypeScript platform for building and deploying durable background jobs, long-running AI workflows, and AI agents with no execution timeouts. It provides an SDK and CLI for defining tasks in your codebase, plus managed or self-hosted infrastructure with queues, automatic retries, concurrency control, observability, and realtime streaming.

## Use cases
- run long-running AI agent workflows without serverless timeouts
- schedule cron jobs and background tasks in TypeScript
- build durable chat agents with human-in-the-loop approvals
- add retries and queues to flaky background jobs
- stream LLM responses to a frontend in realtime
- monitor and trace background task runs with OpenTelemetry
- manage and deploy AI agents from an AI coding assistant via MCP
- self-host a background jobs platform instead of AWS Lambda

## When to choose
- you need long-running tasks (hours) that outlast serverless function limits
- you want durable AI agents with retries, queues, and idempotency built in
- your stack is TypeScript/Next.js and you want tasks in your existing codebase
- you need human-in-the-loop pauses and realtime run status in your UI
- you want a self-hostable alternative to managed job queues

## When to avoid
- you only need simple sub-second cron jobs with minimal infrastructure
- your backend is not JavaScript/TypeScript
- you need a general-purpose stream processing or ETL pipeline engine
- you cannot use a cloud service and do not want to self-host the server components

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: workflow-automation, scheduling, agent-framework, llm-inference, monitoring, tracing, mcp, sdk, cli, deployment
- domain: large-language-models, backend, web-development, developer-tools, self-hosted, microservices
- platform: cloud, self-hosted, serverless, cross-platform
- tags: background-jobs, durable-execution, task-orchestration, queues, retries, human-in-the-loop, realtime-streaming, nextjs, open-source, observability, automation, ai-agents, nodejs, typescript, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- triggerdotdev/trigger.dev (main) score 94

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:14.819956+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 2026-08-29T17:05:13.733814+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:14.819956+00:00, sha ba303379505e)
  - homepage: https://trigger.dev/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T08:03:18.909642+00:00, sha 102090843ed2)
  - site_page: https://trigger.dev/docs/quick-start (fetched 2026-08-29T08:03:18.929310+00:00, sha 443eed3431f9)
  - site_page: https://trigger.dev/docs/tasks/overview (fetched 2026-08-29T08:03:18.931109+00:00, sha ae854e91c6af)
  - site_page: https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction (fetched 2026-08-29T08:03:18.933372+00:00, sha 6ac1702ffd9f)
  - site_page: https://trigger.dev/docs/introduction (fetched 2026-08-29T08:03:18.927230+00:00, sha 7e095c930e4c)
  - site_page: https://trigger.dev/product (fetched 2026-08-29T08:03:18.919044+00:00, sha c1b0f5d6fff7)
  - site_page: https://trigger.dev/changelog/v4-5-14 (fetched 2026-08-29T08:03:18.921388+00:00, sha d1292621cd8b)
  - site_page: https://trigger.dev/changelog/ai-prompts (fetched 2026-08-29T08:03:18.923227+00:00, sha 844b8348f19b)
  - site_page: https://trigger.dev/changelog/mcp-server-2-1 (fetched 2026-08-29T08:03:18.924954+00:00, sha eb8b4c1afcc0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.