Matt Aitken
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## Summary A run's finish commit and its follow-up side effects (completing the associated waitpoint, waking blocked parents, releasing the queue slot, nudging batch completion) are separate writes across Postgres and Redis. If a database error landed between them, the child run was already finished, so the runner's retries hit the "Run is already finished" guard and the completion signal was lost for good. A parent blocked on `triggerAndWait` or `batchTriggerAndWait` then stayed waiting forever. TTL expiry had the same shape: its worker retry returned early on a non-pending run, and the batch expiry path swallowed a failed waitpoint-job enqueue. ## Fix Every finalizing path (attempt success, permanent failure, cancellation, TTL expiry) now enqueues a durable `ensureRunFinalized` job before the finish commit, and acks it once the inline side effects all succeed. In steady state the guard never executes; the cost is one Redis enqueue and ack per completion. When the inline path dies in between, the guard fires after a short delay and re-derives everything from current state: it releases the run's queue message and concurrency slot, completes a still-pending associated waitpoint from the run row's output or error, re-runs the blocked-run fan-out (covering a lost unblock enqueue even after the waitpoint committed), and re-schedules the batch completion check. Every leg is idempotent, so racing the inline path is a no-op. The job retries with a capped backoff for roughly five weeks before dead-lettering, so it outlives any database outage while a genuinely poisoned item still becomes visible. Cancellation gets special handling: CANCELED is the only terminal run status where execution can still be in flight, so the guard only re-delivers for a canceled run once its execution snapshot is FINISHED, re-arming itself until then rather than resuming the parent while the child is still winding down. A `finalization_rederivations` counter increments whenever the guard actually re-delivers a lost signal; it should stay at zero in a healthy system. Tests cover six shapes: waitpoint completion lost after the finish commit, unblock fan-out lost after the waitpoint completed, a failed guard enqueue failing the completion request with nothing committed, a stale guard held back during an in-flight cancellation, waitpoint completion lost during TTL expiry, and the happy path where the guard is acked and never runs. Known accepted edge: a guard re-run after a partial inline completion can re-emit a cached-run completion event for the same span; this only happens during failure recovery and is bounded to duplicate trace events.
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Trigger.dev is the open-source platform for building AI workflows in TypeScript. Long-running tasks with retries, queues, observability, and elastic scaling.
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Build AI agents using all the frameworks, services and LLMs you're used to, deploy them to Trigger.dev and get durable, long-running tasks with retries, queues, observability, and elastic scaling out of the box.
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Long-running without timeouts: Execute your tasks with absolutely no timeouts, unlike AWS Lambda, Vercel, and other serverless platforms.
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True runtime freedom: Customize your deployed tasks with system packages – run browsers, Python scripts, FFmpeg and more.
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Human-in-the-loop: Programmatically pause your tasks until a human can approve, reject or give feedback.
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Realtime apps & streaming: Move your background jobs to the foreground by subscribing to runs or streaming AI responses to your app.
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Observability & monitoring: Each run has full tracing and logs. Configure error alerts to catch bugs fast.
Key features:
- JavaScript and TypeScript SDK - Build background tasks using familiar programming models
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- Durable cron schedules - Create and attach recurring schedules of up to a year
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- React hooks - Interact with the Trigger.dev API on your frontend using our React hooks package
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- Preview branches - Create isolated environments for testing and development. Integrates with Vercel and git workflows
- Waitpoints - Add human-in-the-loop judgment at critical decision points without disrupting workflow
- Concurrency & queues - Set concurrency rules to manage how multiple tasks execute
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export const helloWorld = task({
//2. Use a unique id for each task
id: "hello-world",
//3. The run function is the main function of the task
run: async (payload: { message: string }) => {
//4. You can write code that runs for a long time here, there are no timeouts
console.log(payload.message);
},
});
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