Inngest Agent Skills

Agent Skills for building with Inngest's durable execution platform. These skills give AI coding agents comprehensive guidance on creating reliable, fault-tolerant applications: durable functions, events, steps, flow control, middleware, realtime, AI agents, Agent Evals, CLI operations, REST API fallback, brownfield audits, and SDK migrations.

Looking for the full agent-plugin experience? Use the Inngest plugin for Claude Code or the Inngest plugin for Codex — same shared skills, plus plugin-specific MCP, eval harnesses, commands, or agents.

Learn more about Agent Skills.

Available Skills

Skill	Description	What It Covers
inngest-setup	Set up Inngest in a TypeScript project	SDK installation, client config, environment variables, dev server
inngest-events	Design and send Inngest events	Event schema, naming conventions, idempotency, fan-out patterns, system events
inngest-durable-functions	Create and configure Inngest durable functions	Triggers, step execution, memoization, cancellation, error handling, retries
inngest-steps	Use Inngest step methods to build durable workflows	step.run, step.sleep, step.waitForEvent, loops, parallel execution
inngest-flow-control	Configure Inngest flow control for functions	Concurrency limits, throttling, rate limiting, debounce, priority, batching
inngest-middleware	Create and use Inngest middleware for cross-cutting concerns	Middleware lifecycle, dependency injection, built-in middleware
inngest-realtime	Stream durable workflow updates to a UI in real time	v4 native realtime, channels, subscription tokens, `useRealtime` hook, SSE
inngest-cli	Install and use the Inngest CLI and Dev Server	Dev server, auto-discovery, Docker, testing, MCP server, deployment workflow
inngest-api-cli	Operate Inngest API resources from the terminal	`inngest api`, Cloud debugging, traces, event runs, invocation, Insights
inngest-api	Use REST API v2 and OpenAPI fallback	Raw HTTP, API keys, docs lookup, request shapes, pagination, secret redaction
inngest-agents	Build durable AI agents and agentic workflows	AgentKit, `step.ai`, tool calls, multi-agent networks, human approval, realtime
inngest-agent-evals	Evaluate AI agents and workflows in production	Scoring, deferred scorers, sessions, traces, step experiments, Insights
inngest-brownfield-audit	Audit an existing codebase for durability gaps	Repo discovery, anti-pattern detection, incremental Inngest integration plan
inngest-v3-v4-migration	Upgrade a codebase from SDK v3 to v4	Usage detection, trigger/schema/serve/realtime API changes, verification

Language Support

These skills are focused on TypeScript. Core concepts like events, steps, and flow control apply across all Inngest SDKs, but code examples and setup instructions are TypeScript-specific.

For Python or Go, refer to the Inngest documentation for language-specific guidance.

Installation

Skills.sh

npx skills add inngest/inngest-skills

This installs individual skills into your global ~/.claude/skills/ directory and works with Claude Code, Claude.ai, and other agent runtimes that read skills from that path.

Claude Code and Codex Plugins

For the full Claude Code experience — skills + dev-server MCP + eval harness + (coming soon) commands and agents — install the Claude Code plugin:

/plugin marketplace add inngest/inngest-claude-code-plugin
/plugin install inngest@inngest-claude-code-plugin

See the plugin repo for details.

For Codex, install the Codex plugin from its plugins/inngest bundle.

Cursor

Add to your .cursorrules file:

Load the Inngest skills from https://github.com/inngest/inngest-skills for building with Inngest's durable execution platform.

Other Agents

Reference this repository directly or clone it to your agent's skills directory. Each skill is self-contained with full documentation in its SKILL.md file.

Repository layout

This repo is the source of truth for the skills themselves. The Claude Code and Codex plugins pull from here.

skills/
├── inngest-setup/
├── inngest-durable-functions/
├── inngest-steps/
├── inngest-events/
├── inngest-flow-control/
├── inngest-middleware/
├── inngest-realtime/
├── inngest-cli/
├── inngest-api-cli/
├── inngest-api/
├── inngest-agents/
├── inngest-agent-evals/
├── inngest-brownfield-audit/
└── inngest-v3-v4-migration/

If you're authoring or editing a skill, do it here. The plugin repo syncs from this one.

Contributing

See AGENTS.md for guidelines on editing and maintaining these skills.

License

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE for details.

Inngest Skills

README