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          "registry": "pypi",
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          "Reviewers can be Conductor users or people in your own identity system, by email or group",
          "Human task search by state, assignee, claimant, full text and input or output fields",
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          "Several objects to set up (form, task, workflow, application key) before the first approval",
          "Paid editions are contact sales only, and the free Developer Edition isn't for production",
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          "Give every assignment you want to escalate from a non-zero `slaMinutes`, since 0 never expires and nothing can follow it",
          "Pick `TERMINATE` for risky actions so an unanswered approval fails the workflow instead of staying open to anyone",
          "Start approval workflows with an `idempotencyKey` and `RETURN_EXISTING`, so a retried start doesn't ask twice",
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          "measured": false
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        "privacy": "https://orkes.io/privacy-policy",
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        "securityTxt": "unknown",
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          "No public status page found. The Cloud support policy at orkes.io/cloud-support-policy sets uptime commitments by plan.",
          "We couldn't read security.txt or RDAP on 2026-10-01."
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              "date": "2026-10-03",
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              "date": "2026-10-04",
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              "date": "2026-10-05",
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      "kind": "platform",
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      "summary": "Open-source background jobs and durable tasks in TypeScript.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trigger-dev",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trigger-dev.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trigger-dev.min.md",
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      "repo": "https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev",
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
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        "http",
        "stdio"
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          "registry": "npm",
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "trigger.dev"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
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      "pricing": "freemium",
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        "level": "no",
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        "hosted",
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          "No compute billed for waits over 5 seconds",
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          "OpenAPI 3.1 spec, llms.txt and a release on 2026-10-01",
          "Apache-2.0 and self-hostable, with telemetry opt-outs documented"
        ],
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          "The MCP server's 31 tools don't cover waitpoint tokens"
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          "Pass an explicit `timeout` to `wait.createToken()` and handle `ok: false` as a timeout",
          "Use an idempotency key when creating the token so a retried step doesn't send the reviewer a second request",
          "Give the browser the `publicAccessToken`, never the secret key, and don't call `token.url` from client code",
          "Tag tokens with the user or task ID so pending approvals can be listed per reviewer",
          "Start the MCP server with `--readonly` when the agent only needs to inspect runs"
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          "kind": "remote",
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        "provenanceScore": 75
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        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add trigger -- npx trigger.dev@latest mcp",
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                "trigger.dev@latest",
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          "The privacy policy (updated 2025-12-23) names API Hero Ltd trading as Trigger.dev, Altrincham, United Kingdom, ICO registration ZB547039, and links a DPA at trigger.dev/legal/dpa. We couldn't read the live security.txt or RDAP on 2026-10-01."
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/trigger-dev.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/trigger-dev.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Orkes Conductor Human tasks for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\nPick Trigger.dev for reliability (+43), schema \u0026 documentation (+26), agent ergonomics (+10), payments \u0026 pricing (+20), maintenance \u0026 community (+9), transparency \u0026 trust (+28).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Orkes Conductor Human tasks | Trigger.dev | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 32 | 75 | Trigger.dev +43 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 91 | Trigger.dev +26 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 79 | Trigger.dev +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 71 | 73 | Trigger.dev +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | Trigger.dev +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 90 | Trigger.dev +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 46 | 74 | Trigger.dev +28 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **54.2 · C** | **74.8 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Orkes Conductor Human tasks | Trigger.dev |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | Model platform |\n| Vendor | Orkes | Trigger.dev |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://developer.orkescloud.com/api` | `https://api.trigger.dev` |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 (Conductor OSS and SDKs), proprietary (Orkes Conductor) | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 19 | 31 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.conductor-oss/conductor-mcp` | `io.github.triggerdotdev/trigger.dev` |\n| Last release | 2026-09-10 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Popularity | none | none |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 3.6/5 (8) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Orkes Conductor Human tasks.** Escalation chains with a time limit per assignee and a choice of leaving the task open or failing the workflow. No built-in Slack or email prompt, so alerts need a trigger policy and a second workflow.\n\n**Trigger.dev.** Tokens complete from a backend, a pre-signed callback URL or the browser with a token scoped to one waitpoint. 10-minute default timeout on tokens.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Orkes Conductor Human tasks\n\n1. Give every assignment you want to escalate from a non-zero `slaMinutes`, since 0 never expires and nothing can follow it\n2. Pick `TERMINATE` for risky actions so an unanswered approval fails the workflow instead of staying open to anyone\n3. Start approval workflows with an `idempotencyKey` and `RETURN_EXISTING`, so a retried start doesn't ask twice\n4. Refresh the JWT from `/api/token` with a set expiry instead of requesting one that never expires\n5. Fetch single doc pages, not llms.txt, which is the whole documentation in 2.57 MB\n\n### Trigger.dev\n\n1. Pass an explicit `timeout` to `wait.createToken()` and handle `ok: false` as a timeout\n2. 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Start the MCP server with `--readonly` when the agent only needs to inspect runs\n\n## Other comparisons with Orkes Conductor Human tasks or Trigger.dev\n\n- [gotoHuman vs Orkes Conductor Human tasks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-orkes-conductor.md)\n- [gotoHuman vs Trigger.dev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-trigger-dev.md)\n- [Inngest vs Orkes Conductor Human tasks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-orkes-conductor.md)\n- [Inngest vs Trigger.dev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-trigger-dev.md)\n- [Orkes Conductor Human tasks vs Permit MCP Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orkes-conductor-vs-permit-mcp-gateway.md)\n- [Orkes Conductor Human tasks vs Pushary](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orkes-conductor-vs-pushary.md)\n- [Orkes Conductor Human tasks vs Temporal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orkes-conductor-vs-temporal.md)\n- [Permit MCP Gateway vs Trigger.dev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/permit-mcp-gateway-vs-trigger-dev.md)\n- [Pushary vs Trigger.dev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pushary-vs-trigger-dev.md)\n- [Temporal vs Trigger.dev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/temporal-vs-trigger-dev.md)\n",
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