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