AI Agent Patterns with Trigger.dev

Build production-ready AI agents using Trigger.dev's durable execution.

Pattern Selection

Need to...                              → Use
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Process items in parallel               → Parallelization
Route to different models/handlers      → Routing
Chain steps with validation gates       → Prompt Chaining
Coordinate multiple specialized tasks   → Orchestrator-Workers
Self-improve until quality threshold    → Evaluator-Optimizer
Pause for human approval                → Human-in-the-Loop (waitpoints.md)
Stream progress to frontend             → Realtime Streams (streaming.md)
Let LLM call your tasks as tools        → ai.tool (ai-tool.md)