James

Founder @triggerdotdev (YC W23) – Build and deploy AI agents and workflows

[Arena.ai @arena]

Introducing Agent Mode: Agentic AI is now measured in the Arena.

Agent Mode can do deep research, create reports, generate images, build websites, debug code, and more.

It completes more complex tasks by using tools like web search, bash in a sandbox environment, image generation, file writing, and asking follow-up questions.

Frontier models are waiting for you in Agent Mode to take on real-world tasks. GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and top open models. Test them yourself.

[Trigger.dev @triggerdotdev]

Trigger Cloud is now HIPAA-ready.

Healthcare and healthtech teams can sign a BAA and run tasks that process Protected Health Information on our managed infrastructure. ↓

[Dalton Caldwell @daltonc]

A message for recent YC founders

[Trigger.dev @triggerdotdev]

Your tasks can now connect to private resources in your AWS VPC.

RDS, ElastiCache, internal APIs, self-hosted services. No public endpoint, no IP allowlist, no VPN.

Over AWS PrivateLink ↓

[Trigger.dev @triggerdotdev]

Errors: find and fix your bugs faster.

You can now quickly track down what’s causing your runs to fail with error alerts. Then bulk replay when you’ve shipped the fix.

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[Dalton Caldwell @daltonc]

Trigger is growing faster the bigger it gets via a combination of their existing customers growing + the product rapidly improving which attracts new customers and usecases♻️

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

https://t.co/EAT6n7xgeL lets developers add AI agents to their products with a simple SDK, handling execution, long-running workflows, and reliability so they don't have to. Over 90% of their usage now comes from agent workflows, and they recently announced their $16M Series A led by Standard Capital.

In this episode of Founder Firesides, co-founders @mattaitken and @maverickdotdev sat down with YC's @koomen to talk about three versions of the product before finding product market fit, how building async infrastructure for two years accidentally put them in the perfect position for the agent era, and why they think the future of computing is programmatic checkpoint and restore — freezing and resuming compute on demand.

[Trigger.dev @triggerdotdev]

You can now chat with your running tasks.

Input streams: send typed data INTO a @triggerdotdev task while it's executing.

- Cancel signals for AI generations
- Course-correct agents mid-run
- Approval gates that free compute while they wait

Shipped in v4.4.2 ↓

[Scaling DevTools Podcast @ScalingDevTools]

. @mattaitken from @triggerdotdev talking durable agents - @aiDotEngineer Europe

[Eric Allam @maverickdotdev]

📝Detailed write up of how we ditched git worktrees in favor of @gitbutler and how we use it with agents here:

https://t.co/SodJ8IToQp

[Trigger.dev @triggerdotdev]

GitHub sends a webhook. 60 seconds later, Claude has reviewed your PR diff, labeled your issue, and posted a deploy summary to Slack.

Built with @HookDeck + @triggerdotdev + @AnthropicAI↓

[Scaling DevTools Podcast @ScalingDevTools]

We'll be open-sourcing a docker-compatible cli for firecracker that will help with building your own sandboxes
@mattaitken from @triggerdotdev at @aiDotEngineer

[Hookdeck @Hookdeck]

🧵 GitHub webhooks → durable AI tasks, no custom infrastructure.

Here's how we wired the Hookdeck Event Gateway + @triggerdotdev + @claudeai into a production-ready GitHub automation pipeline. 👇

[Capy @capydotai]

Introducing Capy, the world’s first multiplayer cloud coding platform.

Capy plans, builds, tests, and reviews your code to ship self-healing PRs fully async.

PR view, review agent, computer use, Slack, Linear, ChatGPT sub, all in one tool.

Comment to get $100 of free credits.

[Matt – Trigger.dev @mattaitken]

Switching from Node to @bunjavascript gave us a 5x speed boost (28x better max latency) but there was a gotcha…

Pending response promises don't resolve on client disconnect. @nodejs handles this automatically. Fix: resolve disconnects with 499.

https://t.co/CznIyoOBxP

[Umesh Kumar @itsumeshk]

We're launching RunClaw to kill OpenClaw.

OpenClaw costs $700 to set up.
RunClaw costs $1 no setup.

> OpenClaw can’t build you a website
> Can’t generate a video
> Can’t make a slide deck
> Has 9 security CVEs

RunClaw does all of it.
Better agents. More secure. Always in your DMs.

Try it now for $1.

[Capy @capydotai]

Introducing Capy

The agent that plans, builds, tests, and reviews your code - all in the cloud

Multiplayer on web, mobile, and Slack

[Matt – Trigger.dev @mattaitken]

https://t.co/Szge3rxURj

[Trigger.dev @triggerdotdev]

Just launched: our Vercel integration for Trigger.

Push code. @vercel deploys your app. @triggerdotdev deploys your tasks. Env vars sync both ways. Your app never goes live with mismatched task versions.
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[Dalton Caldwell @daltonc]

A message for YC W26 founders