Trigger.dev agent skills

Agent skills for building AI agents, workflows and durable background tasks with Trigger.dev.

Installation

# Install all skills
npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills

# Or install specific skills
npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills --skill setup
npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills --skill tasks
npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills --skill config
npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills --skill agents
npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills --skill realtime

Available Skills

setup

Use when getting started with Trigger.dev:

• Installing the SDK
• Running npx trigger init
• Creating trigger.config.ts
• Project structure
• First task walkthrough
• Environment variables

tasks

Use when creating background jobs, async workflows, or scheduled tasks. Core patterns for building durable tasks:

• Basic and schema-validated tasks
• Triggering tasks (single, batch, with wait)
• Waits and checkpointing
• Concurrency and queues
• Debouncing and idempotency
• Error handling and retries
• Scheduled tasks (cron)
• Metadata and progress tracking

config

Use when setting up trigger.config.ts or adding build extensions:

• Build extensions (Prisma, Playwright, FFmpeg, Python)
• System packages and additional files
• Environment variable sync
• Telemetry integration
• Global lifecycle hooks

agents

Use when building LLM-powered workflows, orchestration, or multi-step AI agents:

• Prompt chaining with validation gates
• Routing (classify → dispatch)
• Parallelization with batch operations
• Orchestrator-workers (fan-out/fan-in)
• Evaluator-optimizer loops
• Human-in-the-loop with waitpoints

realtime

Use when subscribing to task runs in real-time from frontend or backend:

• Progress indicators and live dashboards
• React hooks for triggering and monitoring tasks
• Streaming AI/LLM responses to UI
• Wait tokens for human-in-the-loop workflows

What is Trigger.dev?

Trigger.dev is a durable execution platform for AI agents, workflows and background tasks. Long-running TypeScript functions with automatic retries, queuing, and real-time observability.

Key features:

• Durable execution — Tasks survive restarts and scale automatically
• Automatic retries — Exponential backoff with configurable retry policies
• Concurrency control — Queues and rate limiting built-in
• Long waits — Tasks can wait for up to a year
• Real-time — Subscribe to task progress from anywhere
• Multi-environment — Dev, staging, and production from one dashboard
• No infrastructure to manage — our cloud product is fully managed
• Open-source — The platform can also be self-hosted on your own infrastructure

Resources

• Documentation
• GitHub
• Discord