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Trigger.dev is the open-source platform for building AI workflows in TypeScript. Long-running tasks with retries, queues, observability, and elastic scaling.
Build AI agents using all the frameworks, services and LLMs you're used to, deploy them to Trigger.dev and get durable, long-running tasks with retries, queues, observability, and elastic scaling out of the box.
Long-running without timeouts: Execute your tasks with absolutely no timeouts, unlike AWS Lambda, Vercel, and other serverless platforms.
Durability, retries & queues: Build rock solid agents and AI applications using our durable tasks, retries, queues and idempotency.
True runtime freedom: Customize your deployed tasks with system packages – run browsers, Python scripts, FFmpeg and more.
Human-in-the-loop: Programmatically pause your tasks until a human can approve, reject or give feedback.
Realtime apps & streaming: Move your background jobs to the foreground by subscribing to runs or streaming AI responses to your app.
Observability & monitoring: Each run has full tracing and logs. Configure error alerts to catch bugs fast.
Create tasks where they belong: in your codebase. Version control, localhost, test and review like you're already used to.
import { task } from "@trigger.dev/sdk";
//1. You need to export each task
export const helloWorld = task({
//2. Use a unique id for each task
id: "hello-world",
//3. The run function is the main function of the task
run: async (payload: { message: string }) => {
//4. You can write code that runs for a long time here, there are no timeouts
console.log(payload.message);
},
});
Use our SDK to write tasks in your codebase. There's no infrastructure to manage, your tasks automatically scale and connect to our cloud. Or you can always self-host.
We support Development, Staging, Preview, and Production environments, allowing you to test your tasks before deploying them to production.
View every task in every run so you can tell exactly what happened. We provide a full trace view of every task run so you can see what happened at every step.

The quickest way to get started is to create an account and project in our web app, and follow the instructions in the onboarding. Build and deploy your first task in minutes.
If you prefer to self-host Trigger.dev, you can follow our self-hosting guides:
We have a large active community in our official Discord server for support, including a dedicated channel for self-hosting.
To setup and develop locally or contribute to the open source project, follow our development guide.