Trigger.dev is an open-source TypeScript platform for running long-lived AI workflows and background tasks. Developers use it for jobs and agents that need queues, retries, schedules, human approval, monitoring, or resources such as browsers and Python scripts. The catalogue entries provide instructions, skills, agents, and commands for working with this platform.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add triggerdotdev/trigger.dev --skill trigger-cost-savingsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.devWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev/trigger-cost-savings)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev/trigger-cost-savings"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev/trigger-cost-savings/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev/trigger-cost-savings"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev/trigger-cost-savings.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Agent Snooping · line 16 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 21 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00068 | $0.00583 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00027 | $0.00233 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00117 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00058 |
Grade A, and why
trigger-cost-savings scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 36 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Trigger.dev Cost Savings Analysis
The full, version-pinned cost-audit workflow ships inside your installed @trigger.dev/sdk. Read it before giving recommendations so they match the SDK version in this project:
- Skill:
node_modules/@trigger.dev/sdk/skills/trigger-cost-savings/SKILL.md— the static-analysis checklist, the MCP run-analysis steps (list_runs,get_run_details,get_current_worker), the report format, and the machine-preset cost table. - Docs: the canonical guidance is bundled at
node_modules/@trigger.dev/sdk/docs/how-to-reduce-your-spend.mdx, with supporting pages undernode_modules/@trigger.dev/sdk/docs/(machines.mdx,runs/max-duration.mdx,queue-concurrency.mdx,idempotency.mdx,triggering.mdx,errors-retrying.mdx).
If those paths don't exist, @trigger.dev/sdk isn't installed yet — install it first. In a non-hoisted layout, resolve the package with node -p "require.resolve('@trigger.dev/sdk/package.json')" and read skills/ + docs/ beside it.
Live run analysis needs the Trigger.dev MCP server (npx trigger.dev@latest install-mcp). Without it, do the static source analysis only — never fabricate run data.
Key principles
- Waits > 5 seconds are free — checkpointed, no compute charge.
- Start small, scale up — the default
small-1xis right for most tasks; right-size down tasks stuck onlarge-*with short durations. - I/O-bound tasks don't need big machines — API calls and DB queries wait on the network.
- Add
maxDuration— cap runaway compute. - Debounce high-frequency triggers — consolidate bursts into single runs.
- Idempotency keys prevent duplicate billed work.
AbortTaskRunErrorstops wasteful retries — don't pay to retry permanent failures.
References
Sibling skills: trigger-authoring-tasks (the task options these levers tune: machine, maxDuration, retry, queue, idempotency), trigger-realtime-and-frontend, trigger-authoring-chat-agent and trigger-chat-agent-advanced (AI agents).
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago First seen · 36 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 3c5b38eaf140
trigger-cost-savings is a skill published in the GitHub repository triggerdotdev/trigger.dev (16,558 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 583 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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