## Summary
Each scheduled-task tick previously issued **3 Prisma `UPDATE`s**
against
`TaskSchedule.lastRunTriggeredAt`,
`TaskScheduleInstance.lastScheduledTimestamp`,
and `TaskScheduleInstance.nextScheduledTimestamp`. All three were pure
denormalization — every value can be derived without persisting.
After this PR `TaskSchedule` and `TaskScheduleInstance` become **near
read-only**:
writes happen only on schedule create / update / delete (rare admin
actions),
so the per-tick autovacuum churn on these hot tables disappears.
## Design
The previous fire time travels forward through the **schedule worker
payload**,
not through the database. Concretely:
- The `schedule.triggerScheduledTask` worker payload gains an optional
`lastScheduleTime: z.coerce.date().optional()` field.
- When the engine fires a schedule, it re-enqueues the next tick with
`lastScheduleTime = scheduleTimestamp` (the just-fired time).
- When the next tick dequeues, `payload.lastTimestamp` is sourced from
`params.lastScheduleTime` directly. No DB round-trip, no cron-derivation
drift across DST boundaries, no caveats around recently-edited cron
expressions.
`payload.lastTimestamp` keeps its `Date | undefined` SDK shape.
First-ever
fires still report `undefined`, so customer `if
(!payload.lastTimestamp)`
first-run patterns keep working.
For Redis jobs that were enqueued **before** this change (which lack
`lastScheduleTime` in their payload), the engine falls back to
`instance.lastScheduledTimestamp` once. Once those drain, the column is
never read again. Revert is code-only; the columns stay in place and can
be dropped in a follow-up once the rollout is stable.
## Files
- `internal-packages/schedule-engine/*` — engine refactor,
`workerCatalog`
schema field, `TriggerScheduleParams` extension, tests updated to assert
on the worker-payload flow rather than DB readbacks.
- `internal-packages/database/prisma/schema.prisma` — `/// @deprecated`
triple-slash docstrings on the three columns. No migration.
- `apps/webapp/app/presenters/v3/ScheduleListPresenter.server.ts` —
drops
the `lastRunTriggeredAt` Prisma select; "Last run" cell is approximated
from the cron expression's previous slot, gated on `schedule.createdAt`
so brand-new schedules show "–". UI is best-effort; the runs page is the
source of truth.
- `apps/webapp/app/v3/utils/calculateNextSchedule.server.ts` — adds a
`previousScheduledTimestamp` helper for the UI cell above. Public API
responses (`api.v1.schedules.*`) already compute `nextRun` from cron and
don't expose `lastTimestamp` — no public API change.
- `references/scheduled-tasks/` — new reference project with declarative
schedules at multiple cadences and three throw-on-fail validators
(`first-fire-detector`, `interval-validator`, `upcoming-validator`) for
E2E-verifying the worker-payload flow.
Refs TRI-8891
## Test plan
- [x] `pnpm run typecheck --filter @internal/schedule-engine --filter
webapp`
- [x] `pnpm run build --filter @trigger.dev/core`
- [x] `pnpm run test --filter @internal/schedule-engine` — integration
test
asserts first-fire `lastTimestamp === undefined`, second fire carries
the previous fire's timestamp exactly.
- [x] E2E against local webapp via `references/scheduled-tasks`:
- Fresh schedules attached → all three deprecated columns stay `NULL`
after
multiple fires.
- Redis payload at second fire contains
`"lastScheduleTime":"<previous fire timestamp>"`.
- `TaskRun.payload` and the every-minute task's returned output both
confirm
`lastTimestamp = null` on first fire and `lastTimestamp = <prev fire>`
on
second fire, exactly 60s apart.
- All three throw-on-FAIL validators completed successfully on every
non-first fire.
- [x] Schedules REST API end-to-end (`POST` / `GET` / `PUT` / `activate`
/
`deactivate` / `DELETE`) — `nextRun` recomputed live from cron + tz on
every response, no reads of deprecated columns.
Trigger.dev References
Contains code that tests or uses the @trigger.dev/* packages in some way, either by using them to test out a framework adapter, an integration, or parts of the main SDK.
All the dependencies to the @trigger.dev/* packages will be both referenced in the package.json dependencies as workspace:*, as well as using a direct path from the tsconfig.json file like so:
{
"extends": "@trigger.dev/tsconfig/node18.json",
"include": ["./src/**/*.ts"],
"compilerOptions": {
"baseUrl": ".",
"lib": ["DOM", "DOM.Iterable"],
"paths": {
"@/*": ["./src/*"],
"@trigger.dev/sdk": ["../../packages/trigger-sdk/src/index"],
"@trigger.dev/sdk/*": ["../../packages/trigger-sdk/src/*"],
"@trigger.dev/express": ["../../packages/express/src/index"],
"@trigger.dev/express/*": ["../../packages/express/src/*"],
"@trigger.dev/core": ["../../packages/core/src/index"],
"@trigger.dev/core/*": ["../../packages/core/src/*"],
"@trigger.dev/integration-kit": ["../../packages/integration-kit/src/index"],
"@trigger.dev/integration-kit/*": ["../../packages/integration-kit/src/*"],
"@trigger.dev/github": ["../../integrations/github/src/index"],
"@trigger.dev/github/*": ["../../integrations/github/src/*"],
"@trigger.dev/slack": ["../../integrations/slack/src/index"],
"@trigger.dev/slack/*": ["../../integrations/slack/src/*"],
"@trigger.dev/openai": ["../../integrations/openai/src/index"],
"@trigger.dev/openai/*": ["../../integrations/openai/src/*"],
"@trigger.dev/resend": ["../../integrations/resend/src/index"],
"@trigger.dev/resend/*": ["../../integrations/resend/src/*"],
"@trigger.dev/typeform": ["../../integrations/typeform/src/index"],
"@trigger.dev/typeform/*": ["../../integrations/typeform/src/*"],
"@trigger.dev/plain": ["../../integrations/plain/src/index"],
"@trigger.dev/plain/*": ["../../integrations/plain/src/*"],
"@trigger.dev/supabase": ["../../integrations/supabase/src/index"],
"@trigger.dev/supabase/*": ["../../integrations/supabase/src/*"],
"@trigger.dev/stripe": ["../../integrations/stripe/src/index"],
"@trigger.dev/stripe/*": ["../../integrations/stripe/src/*"],
"@trigger.dev/sendgrid": ["../../integrations/sendgrid/src/index"],
"@trigger.dev/sendgrid/*": ["../../integrations/sendgrid/src/*"],
"@trigger.dev/airtable": ["../../integrations/airtable/src/index"],
"@trigger.dev/airtable/*": ["../../integrations/airtable/src/*"]
}
}
}
Creating a New Reference Project
This guide assumes that you have followed the Contributing.md instructions to set up a local trigger.dev instance. If not, please complete the setup before continuing.
Step-by-Step Instructions
- Run an HTTP tunnel: You will need to run an HTTP tunnel to expose your local webapp, it is required for some API calls during building the image to deploy on your local instance. This is optional if you do not plan to test deployment on your local instance.
- Download the ngrok CLI. This can be done by following the instructions on ngrok's website.
- Create an account on ngrok to obtain the authtoken and add it to the CLI.
ngrok config add-authtoken <your-auth-token>
Replace the with the token you obtain from ngrok.
- Run the tunnel.
ngrok http <your-app-port>
Replace the with the webapp port, default is 3030.
-
Add your tunnel URL to the env: After running the ngrok tunnel, you will see URL in your terminal, it will look something like
https://<your-tunnel-address>.ngrok-free.app. Replace theAPP_ORIGINvariable with this URL in your.envfile in the root of the trigger.dev project. -
Run the webapp on localhost:
pnpm run dev --filter webapp --filter coordinator --filter docker-provider
- Build the CLI in a new terminal window:
# Build the CLI
pnpm run build --filter trigger.dev
# Make it accessible to `pnpm exec`
pnpm i
- Set up a new project in the webapp:
- Open the webapp running on
localhost:3030. - Create a new project in the webapp UI.
- Go to the Project Settings page and copy the project reference id from there.
- Copy the hello-world project as a template:
cp -r references/hello-world references/<new-project>
Replace <new-project> with your desired project name.
- Update project details:
-
Open
<new-project>/package.jsonand change the name field. (Tip: Use the same name as in the webapp to avoid confusion.) -
Open
<new-project>/trigger.config.tsand update the project field with the project reference you copied from the webapp. -
Run
pnpm iin your<new-project>directory to sync the dependencies.
- Authorize the CLI for your project:
pnpm exec trigger login -a http://localhost:3030 --profile local
- Run the new project: You can now run your project using the CLI with the following command:
pnpm exec trigger dev --profile local
You can also deploy them against your local instance with the following command:
pnpm exec trigger deploy --self-hosted --load-image --profile local