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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 trigger-setup
npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills --skill trigger-tasks
npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills --skill trigger-config
npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills --skill trigger-agents
npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills --skill trigger-realtime
npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills --skill trigger-cost-savings

Available Skills

trigger-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

trigger-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

trigger-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

trigger-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

trigger-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

trigger-cost-savings

Use when analyzing tasks and runs for cost optimization. Requires Trigger.dev MCP tools for run analysis:

  • Right-sizing machine presets
  • Identifying excessive retries and missing abort conditions
  • Finding missing debounce, idempotency, and maxDuration
  • Detecting polling loops that should use waitpoints
  • Analyzing run data for high-cost tasks and failure patterns
  • Schedule frequency review

Install MCP tools: npx trigger.dev@latest install-mcp

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

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