Trigger.dev MCP Server

Name: Trigger.dev MCP Server
Author: Trigger.dev

Lets an assistant trigger, monitor and deploy Trigger.dev background tasks and query run data.

Official · Trigger.dev JavaScript Local · stdio DevOps and monitoring Developer tools

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115 popularity score ★ 17k ↓ 1.2M/wk

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Claude CodeTerminal

claude mcp add trigger-dev -- npx -y trigger.dev mcp

Claude Desktopclaude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trigger-dev": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "trigger.dev",
        "mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Cursor~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trigger-dev": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "trigger.dev",
        "mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

VS Code.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "trigger-dev": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "trigger.dev",
        "mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Codex~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.trigger-dev]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "trigger.dev", "mcp"]

Gemini CLITerminal

gemini mcp add --scope user trigger-dev npx -- -y trigger.dev mcp

What it does

Trigger.dev is an open-source platform for building and running background jobs, workflows and AI agents in TypeScript, hosted or self-hosted. Its MCP server, run through the Trigger.dev CLI, lets a coding assistant work with your projects: search the Trigger.dev docs, set up Trigger.dev in a project, list organisations and projects, see the current worker and its tasks, trigger tasks with a payload, follow runs and their logs, wait for a run to finish, cancel runs, and deploy to staging or production.

It can also query run data with TRQL and the built-in dashboards and health reports, start and stop the local dev server, and talk to chat agents registered in your worker. Flags restrict it to the dev environment (--dev-only), hide the write tools deploy, trigger_task and cancel_run (--readonly), or scope it to one project (--project-ref).

The quickest setup is npx trigger.dev@latest install-mcp, which detects installed MCP clients and configures them; the configured command is npx trigger.dev@latest mcp. search_docs works without an account; the other tools need you to be logged in through the Trigger.dev CLI, and the client prompts for login on first use.

What it needs

Runtime	Node.js

Tools 31

search_docs: Search the Trigger.dev documentation for guides, examples, and API references.
list_orgs: List all organizations you have access to.
list_projects: List all projects in your Trigger.dev account.
create_project_in_org: Create a new project in an organization.
initialize_project: Initialize Trigger.dev in your project with automatic setup and configuration.
get_current_worker: Get the current worker for a project, including worker version, SDK version, and registered tasks.
trigger_task: Trigger a task to run with a specific payload, including delay, tags, retries, and other options.
get_run_details: Get detailed information about a specific task run, including logs and status.
list_runs: List runs for a project with filtering by status, task, tags, version, and time period.
wait_for_run_to_complete: Wait for a specific run to finish and return the result.
cancel_run: Cancel a running or queued run.
deploy: Deploy your project to staging or production.
list_deploys: List deployments for a project with filtering by status or time period.
list_preview_branches: List all preview branches in the project.
whoami: Show the current authenticated user, active CLI profile, email, and API URL.
list_profiles: List all configured CLI profiles and which one is currently active.
switch_profile: Switch the active CLI profile for this MCP session.
get_query_schema: Get the schema for TRQL queries with available tables, columns, and data types.
query: Execute a TRQL query against your Trigger.dev data for analyzing runs and metrics.
list_dashboards: List available built-in dashboards with their widgets.
run_dashboard_query: Execute a single widget query from a built-in dashboard.
get_report: Render an interpreted health report as text with sparklines.
start_dev_server: Start the Trigger.dev dev server in the background.
stop_dev_server: Stop the running Trigger.dev dev server.
dev_server_status: Check the status of the dev server and view recent output.
list_agents: List all chat agents registered in the current worker.
start_agent_chat: Start a conversation with a chat agent.
send_agent_message: Send a message to an active agent chat and get the response.
close_agent_chat: Close an agent chat conversation.
read_session_channel: Read records from a session's realtime stream.
write_session_channel: Append one record to a named side channel's input stream.

Popularity

115 popularity score, on our list (the bar is 36)

★ 17k ↓ 1.2M/wk

GitHub stars, whole repository	16,726	48.6 points
Stars in 30 days	+232	10 points
npm downloads, last week	1,175,485	48.6 points
Official server	Yes	8 points

It lives in the folder packages/cli-v3 of triggerdotdev/trigger.dev, which holds more than this server. Its stars are the whole repository's, so in the score they never count for more than its own downloads.

Measured 2026-11-07. How the score works.

Where it is published

Code	triggerdotdev/trigger.dev/packages/cli-v3 ★ 17k, the whole repository
npm	trigger.dev 4.8.3, 2026-10-30

What it can reach

Runs	On your machine
Reaches	Cloud resources, Your account at a service, The internet, Runs shell commands
Changes things	Yes: it can write, send, create or delete
Sign-in	Account credentials
Licence	MIT (npm)
Last code change	2026-10-30

Runs on your machine through the Trigger.dev CLI and acts on your Trigger.dev account with your CLI login (only search_docs works without it). Write tools can trigger and cancel runs and deploy to staging or production; --readonly hides deploy, trigger_task and cancel_run, --dev-only restricts it to the dev environment, and --project-ref scopes it to one project. The dev-server tools start and stop a local process. Tasks run on Trigger.dev's cloud or your self-hosted instance.

Over time

GitHub stars, whole repository 17k +232 (+1 %)

17k16k

7 Oct 20267 Nov 2026

npm downloads a week 1.2M +1.1M (+3336 %)

1.2M34k

20 Oct 20257 Nov 2026

Before the site measured it, read from npm's daily download counts.

Popularity score 115 +57 (+96 %)

11559

7 Oct 20267 Nov 2026

What is rising across the directory

Sources

Page checked 2026-10-07.

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