trigger-tasks

The trigger-tasks skill helps developers build durable background tasks and asynchronous workflows using Trigger.dev. It is designed for work that should run independently from the main application flow, such as long-running jobs, scheduled processes, webhook handling, file processing, and AI agent execution. By leveraging Trigger.dev tasks, developers can create reliable background operations with built-in retry mechanisms, queuing, and execution management, reducing the complexity of implementing resilient asynchronous systems.

The skill covers core Trigger.dev task patterns, including standard tasks, schema-validated tasks, task triggering, batch triggering, task-to-task orchestration, waiting mechanisms, and concurrency controls. It emphasizes important implementation rules such as using the modern `@trigger.dev/sdk`, validating `triggerAndWait()` results through `result.ok`, avoiding unsupported parallel patterns with waits, and exporting tasks from the `trigger/` directory. It also provides guidance for configuring retries, scheduling delayed execution through wait utilities, handling external approvals with tokens, and managing throughput using queues and concurrency limits.

This skill is intended for developers building backend services, workflow automation systems, AI-powered applications, and event-driven architectures. Common use cases include processing webhooks, handling uploaded files, running recurring jobs, coordinating multiple background tasks, managing email processing workloads, and implementing controlled execution pipelines where reliability, observability, and concurrency management are important requirements.