Library / SDK
Automation & Integration
Trigger.dev
1Open-source 2background 3jobs 4and 5AI 6workflows
the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Maintained by Trigger.dev.
W2
What
Writes durable background jobs and AI workflows in code.
W3
Where
Self-hosted or Trigger.dev Cloud.
W4
When
When long-running AI tasks need reliability and retries.
W5
Why
Durable execution without managing queue infrastructure.
W6
With
A Node runtime and the Trigger.dev SDK.
W7
Watch
Company-maintained; open-source, self-hostable, with a hosted cloud (open-core). Self-hosting keeps job data on your infrastructure.