How Trigger.dev’s scores are calculated

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docsweight 2

2 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 16.0 of 20 max

• [probe] https://trigger.dev/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 200 at https://trigger.dev/llms.txt # Trigger.dev > Build AI agents and workflows in TypeScript. Open source platform for durable, long-running tasks. Writ”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/llms-full.txt“Language | TypeScript/JavaScript (Node.js and Bun); Python via build extension”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/skills“Install Trigger.dev agent skills to teach any AI coding assistant how to write tasks, realtime frontends, and chat.agent AI agents.”
• [probe] https://trigger.dev/docs.md“PROBE docs-md: HTTP 404 at https://trigger.dev/docs.md”

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automationweight 2

2 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 16.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/github-actions“This simple GitHub action workflow will deploy your Trigger.dev tasks when new code is pushed to the `main` branch.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/cli-introduction“The Trigger.dev CLI has a number of options and commands to help you develop locally, self host, and deploy your tasks.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/cli-introduction“Run your Trigger.dev tasks locally.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/cli-introduction“Deploy your Trigger.dev project to the cloud.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/self-hosting/overview“Self-hosting Trigger.dev means you run and manage the platform on your own infrastructure, giving you full control over your environment, deployment process, and the URLs you expose the service on.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250720“We're very satisfied customers since January of this year. We use it as an extension of our node app, for all things asynchronous... it's the most accessible incarnation of serverless.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250720“Another happy customer here. Since day one Trigger.dev is powering our AI Automation platform. It helped us to scale effortlessly and stay on TypeScript stack... pricing is even cheaper than self-hosting on VPS.”
• [github] https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev“Build rock solid agents and AI applications using our durable tasks, retries, queues and idempotency.”

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their toolsweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction“The Trigger.dev MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server enables AI assistants to interact directly with your Trigger.dev projects.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/ai-chat/mcp“The Trigger.dev MCP server includes tools for having conversations with your chat agents directly from AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and others.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/ai-chat/mcp“This lets your AI assistant interact with your agents without writing any code.”
• [probe] https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction“official MCP server documented at https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction”

Connect an agent via an official MCP serverweight 3

3 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 24.0 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction“The Trigger.dev MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server enables AI assistants to interact directly with your Trigger.dev projects.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/ai-chat/mcp“The Trigger.dev MCP server includes tools for having conversations with your chat agents directly from AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and others.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/ai-chat/mcp“This lets your AI assistant interact with your agents without writing any code.”
• [probe] https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction“official MCP server documented at https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction”

Use an official CLIweight 2

2 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 16.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/cli-introduction“The Trigger.dev CLI has a number of options and commands to help you develop locally, self host, and deploy your tasks.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/cli-introduction“Run your Trigger.dev tasks locally.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/cli-introduction“Deploy your Trigger.dev project to the cloud.”
• [probe] https://trigger.dev/docs/cli-introduction“official CLI documented at https://trigger.dev/docs/cli-introduction”

Drive the product through a documented public APIweight 3

3 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 21.0 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/management/overview“async function main() { const completedRuns = await runs.list({ limit: 10, status: ["COMPLETED"], }); }”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/management/overview“All `v3` functionality is provided through the `@trigger.dev/sdk` module.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/blog“Create as many keys as you need per environment, each with its own access scope, optional task restrictions, and an expiration date.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction“The Trigger.dev MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server enables AI assistants to interact directly with your Trigger.dev projects.”
• [probe] https://trigger.dev/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://trigger.dev/openapi.json, https://trigger.dev/swagger.json, https://trigger.dev/api/openapi.json, https://trigger.dev/.well-known/openapi.json)”
• [probe] https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction“official MCP server documented at https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction”

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agentweight 2

2 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 7.2 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/blog“Create as many keys as you need per environment, each with its own access scope, optional task restrictions, and an expiration date.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/security“Yes, you can enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on your account, adding an extra layer of authentication security for your team.”

Build against official SDKsweight 2

2 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 16.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs“Trigger.dev is an open source background jobs framework that lets you write reliable workflows in plain async code. Run long-running AI tasks, handle complex background jobs...No timeouts, elastic scaling”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/management/overview“All `v3` functionality is provided through the `@trigger.dev/sdk` module.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/llms-full.txt“Language | TypeScript/JavaScript (Node.js and Bun); Python via build extension”
• [github] https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev“Build rock solid agents and AI applications using our durable tasks, retries, queues and idempotency.”
• [community] https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/45250720“co-founder of Magic Patterns: We use Trigger to take screenshots of designs... Puppeteer constantly hits OOM errors, needing a high-end machine that got expensive with our own microservice which would constantly crash. Trigger spinning up jobs was perfect and we migrated in a day and now I never think about it.”
• [probe] https://trigger.dev/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://trigger.dev/openapi.json, https://trigger.dev/swagger.json, https://trigger.dev/api/openapi.json, https://trigger.dev/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Subscribe to events via webhooksweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/product/observability-and-monitoring“Receive alerts via email, Slack notification and webhooks when your tasks fail.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/tasks/overview“This triggers the task and returns a handle...You can use the handle to check the status of the task, cancel and retry it.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/management/overview“async function main() { const completedRuns = await runs.list({ limit: 10, status: ["COMPLETED"], }); }”

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examplesweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [probe] https://trigger.dev/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://trigger.dev/openapi.json, https://trigger.dev/swagger.json, https://trigger.dev/api/openapi.json, https://trigger.dev/.well-known/openapi.json)”
• [probe] https://trigger.dev/docs.md“PROBE docs-md: HTTP 404 at https://trigger.dev/docs.md”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/management/overview“async function main() { const completedRuns = await runs.list({ limit: 10, status: ["COMPLETED"], }); }”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/management/overview“All `v3` functionality is provided through the `@trigger.dev/sdk` module.”

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)weight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [probe] https://trigger.dev/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://trigger.dev/openapi.json, https://trigger.dev/swagger.json, https://trigger.dev/api/openapi.json, https://trigger.dev/.well-known/openapi.json)”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/management/overview“async function main() { const completedRuns = await runs.list({ limit: 10, status: ["COMPLETED"], }); }”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/management/overview“All `v3` functionality is provided through the `@trigger.dev/sdk` module.”

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production dataweight 1

1 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 3.6 of 10 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/cli-introduction“The Trigger.dev CLI has a number of options and commands to help you develop locally, self host, and deploy your tasks.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/cli-introduction“Run your Trigger.dev tasks locally.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/blog“Create as many keys as you need per environment, each with its own access scope, optional task restrictions, and an expiration date.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250720“Big fan of Trigger.dev here. The scheduled task feature has been a lifesaver—super simple and just works exactly as expected. Also want to call out the Dev mode: it's an absolute gem, makes testing and iterating so much smoother than anything else I've tried.”

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policyweight 2

2 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.3 (disputed) = 2.4 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/versioning“When a task run starts it is locked to the latest version of the code (for that environment). Once locked it won't change versions, even if you deploy new versions.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/management/overview“All `v3` functionality is provided through the `@trigger.dev/sdk` module.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250720“We've had some issues with migrating from v3 to v4. The transition felt rushed (some of the docs / examples are still showing v3 code, that is deprecated in v4).”

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UIweight 2

2 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 7.2 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/management/overview“async function main() { const completedRuns = await runs.list({ limit: 10, status: ["COMPLETED"], }); }”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/tasks/overview“This triggers the task and returns a handle...You can use the handle to check the status of the task, cancel and retry it.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/wait-for-token“Waitpoint tokens pause task runs until you complete the token. They're commonly used for approval workflows and other scenarios where you need to wait for external confirmation”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/limits“Extra concurrency above the Pro tier limit is available via the dashboard. Click the "Concurrency" page from the left sidebar when on the Pro plan to purchase more.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/product/scheduled-tasks“Create, activate, disable, edit and delete schedules in the dashboard without having to deploy any new code.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/management/overview“All `v3` functionality is provided through the `@trigger.dev/sdk` module.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/cli-introduction“The Trigger.dev CLI has a number of options and commands to help you develop locally, self host, and deploy your tasks.”
• [probe] https://trigger.dev/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://trigger.dev/openapi.json, https://trigger.dev/swagger.json, https://trigger.dev/api/openapi.json, https://trigger.dev/.well-known/openapi.json)”
• [probe] https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction“official MCP server documented at https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction”

Export all of my data in open formats and leaveweight 3

3 (weight) × 5 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 9.0 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs“Trigger.dev is an open source background jobs framework that lets you write reliable workflows in plain async code. Run long-running AI tasks, handle complex background jobs...No timeouts, elastic scaling”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/self-hosting/overview“Self-hosting Trigger.dev means you run and manage the platform on your own infrastructure, giving you full control over your environment, deployment process, and the URLs you expose the service on.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/management/overview“async function main() { const completedRuns = await runs.list({ limit: 10, status: ["COMPLETED"], }); }”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/management/overview“All `v3` functionality is provided through the `@trigger.dev/sdk` module.”
• [github] https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev“Build rock solid agents and AI applications using our durable tasks, retries, queues and idempotency.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/cli-introduction“The Trigger.dev CLI has a number of options and commands to help you develop locally, self host, and deploy your tasks.”

Read the product's source under an open licenseweight 2

2 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 14.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs“Trigger.dev is an open source background jobs framework that lets you write reliable workflows in plain async code. Run long-running AI tasks, handle complex background jobs...No timeouts, elastic scaling”
• [github] https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev“Build rock solid agents and AI applications using our durable tasks, retries, queues and idempotency.”

Self-host the core productweight 3

3 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 21.0 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/self-hosting/overview“Self-hosting Trigger.dev means you run and manage the platform on your own infrastructure, giving you full control over your environment, deployment process, and the URLs you expose the service on.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/cli-introduction“The Trigger.dev CLI has a number of options and commands to help you develop locally, self host, and deploy your tasks.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/github-actions“This simple GitHub action workflow will deploy your Trigger.dev tasks when new code is pushed to the `main` branch.”
• [github] https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev“Build rock solid agents and AI applications using our durable tasks, retries, queues and idempotency.”

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the productweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/product/observability-and-monitoring“As soon as you trigger a task, the run page will show a trace view of each task executing in real-time along with any logs it produces.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/product/observability-and-monitoring“Receive alerts via email, Slack notification and webhooks when your tasks fail.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction“The Trigger.dev MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server enables AI assistants to interact directly with your Trigger.dev projects.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/management/overview“async function main() { const completedRuns = await runs.list({ limit: 10, status: ["COMPLETED"], }); }”

Set up automations that run autonomously in the backgroundweight 2

2 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 16.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs“Trigger.dev is an open source background jobs framework that lets you write reliable workflows in plain async code. Run long-running AI tasks, handle complex background jobs...No timeouts, elastic scaling”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/tasks/scheduled“Scheduled tasks are only for recurring tasks...A task that is triggered on a recurring schedule using cron syntax.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/product/scheduled-tasks“Add schedules to your tasks which sync when you run dev or deploy”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/product/scheduled-tasks“Create, activate, disable, edit and delete schedules in the dashboard without having to deploy any new code.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/wait-for-token“Waitpoint tokens pause task runs until you complete the token. They're commonly used for approval workflows and other scenarios where you need to wait for external confirmation”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/queue-concurrency“You can set the concurrency limit for a task by setting the `concurrencyLimit` property on the task's queue. This limits the number of runs that can be executing at any one time”
• [github] https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev“Build rock solid agents and AI applications using our durable tasks, retries, queues and idempotency.”
• [community] https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/45250720“co-founder of Magic Patterns: We use Trigger to take screenshots of designs... Puppeteer constantly hits OOM errors, needing a high-end machine that got expensive with our own microservice which would constantly crash. Trigger spinning up jobs was perfect and we migrated in a day and now I never think about it.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250720“Another happy customer here. Since day one Trigger.dev is powering our AI Automation platform. It helped us to scale effortlessly and stay on TypeScript stack... pricing is even cheaper than self-hosting on VPS.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250720“Big fan of Trigger.dev here. The scheduled task feature has been a lifesaver—super simple and just works exactly as expected. Also want to call out the Dev mode: it's an absolute gem, makes testing and iterating so much smoother than anything else I've tried.”

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the productweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction“The Trigger.dev MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server enables AI assistants to interact directly with your Trigger.dev projects.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/ai-chat/overview“Durable multi-turn AI chats — one Trigger.dev task per conversation, surviving refreshes, deploys, and crashes.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/ai-chat/mcp“The Trigger.dev MCP server includes tools for having conversations with your chat agents directly from AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and others.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/ai-chat/mcp“This lets your AI assistant interact with your agents without writing any code.”

Operate the product with natural-language commandsweight 2

2 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 7.2 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction“The Trigger.dev MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server enables AI assistants to interact directly with your Trigger.dev projects.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/ai-chat/mcp“The Trigger.dev MCP server includes tools for having conversations with your chat agents directly from AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and others.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/skills“Install Trigger.dev agent skills to teach any AI coding assistant how to write tasks, realtime frontends, and chat.agent AI agents.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/ai-chat/mcp“This lets your AI assistant interact with your agents without writing any code.”
• [probe] https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction“official MCP server documented at https://trigger.dev/docs/mcp-introduction”

Perform bulk operations across many items at onceweight 2

2 (weight) × 5 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 6.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/management/overview“async function main() { const completedRuns = await runs.list({ limit: 10, status: ["COMPLETED"], }); }”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/queue-concurrency“You can set the concurrency limit for a task by setting the `concurrencyLimit` property on the task's queue. This limits the number of runs that can be executing at any one time”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/product/concurrency-and-queues“With concurrency keys you can create bespoke queue logic for each of your users.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/limits“You can view your current limits, quotas, and rate limit usage in real-time by visiting the **Limits** page in the dashboard”

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on eventsweight 3

3 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 10.8 of 30 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/tasks/scheduled“Scheduled tasks are only for recurring tasks...A task that is triggered on a recurring schedule using cron syntax.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/product/scheduled-tasks“Add schedules to your tasks which sync when you run dev or deploy”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/product/scheduled-tasks“Create, activate, disable, edit and delete schedules in the dashboard without having to deploy any new code.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/wait-for-token“Waitpoint tokens pause task runs until you complete the token. They're commonly used for approval workflows and other scenarios where you need to wait for external confirmation”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev“refundOrder: tool({ ... needsApproval: true, // pauses for human approval; the run stays alive ... })”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/tasks/overview“This triggers the task and returns a handle...You can use the handle to check the status of the task, cancel and retry it.”
• [github] https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev“Build rock solid agents and AI applications using our durable tasks, retries, queues and idempotency.”

Schedule recurring jobs or workflowsweight 2

2 (weight) × 9 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 18.0 of 20 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/tasks/scheduled“Scheduled tasks are only for recurring tasks...A task that is triggered on a recurring schedule using cron syntax.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/product/scheduled-tasks“Add schedules to your tasks which sync when you run dev or deploy”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/product/scheduled-tasks“Create, activate, disable, edit and delete schedules in the dashboard without having to deploy any new code.”
• [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250720“Big fan of Trigger.dev here. The scheduled task feature has been a lifesaver—super simple and just works exactly as expected. Also want to call out the Dev mode: it's an absolute gem, makes testing and iterating so much smoother than anything else I've tried.”

Version, review, and roll back my automationsweight 1

1 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 2.4 of 10 max

• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/versioning“When a task run starts it is locked to the latest version of the code (for that environment). Once locked it won't change versions, even if you deploy new versions.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/github-actions“This simple GitHub action workflow will deploy your Trigger.dev tasks when new code is pushed to the `main` branch.”
• [claimed-docs] https://trigger.dev/docs/cli-introduction“The Trigger.dev CLI has a number of options and commands to help you develop locally, self host, and deploy your tasks.”