Trigger.dev agent skills for AI coding assistants

Install our official agent skills to teach any AI coding assistant best practices for writing tasks, agents, and workflows.

Skills are built on the open Agent Skills standard. Each skill is a directory containing a SKILL.md file with patterns, examples, and best practices that AI assistants automatically discover and follow.

Installation

Install the full suite of Trigger.dev skills:

npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills

Or install individual skills:

npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills/trigger-setup
npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills/trigger-tasks
npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills/trigger-agents
npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills/trigger-realtime
npx skills add triggerdotdev/skills/trigger-config

Available skills

Skill	Purpose	Coverage
trigger-setup	Initial configuration	SDK installation, project structure
trigger-tasks	Async workflows	Triggering, queues, retries, scheduling
trigger-agents	AI orchestration	Prompt chaining, routing, parallelization
trigger-realtime	Live updates	React hooks, streaming responses
trigger-config	Build configuration	Configuration file and extensions

Supported AI assistants

Skills work with any AI coding assistant that supports the Agent Skills standard, including Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Cline, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and more.

Skills replace vendor-specific config files with a single install that works across every major AI coding assistant.