Inngest SOPDurable workflow engine — docs, distilled

A self-contained SOP reference mirrored from inngest.com/docs. Step-level retries, event coordination, flow control, and durable AI workflows.

Quick Start (Next.js)

How durable execution works

TypeScript v4 Reference

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Getting Started

Quick starts for Next.js, Node.js frameworks, and Python. Serve a handler and run a durable function locally in minutes.

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Concepts

How functions execute, durable functions & endpoints, steps, error handling, and durable agents.

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Flow Control

Concurrency, throttling, batching, rate limiting, debounce, singleton, and priority.

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Events & Triggers

Sending events, payload formats, fan-out, cron, delayed and background jobs, multiple triggers.

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Error Handling

Retries, rollbacks, failure handlers, cancellation, and Inngest errors.

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AI Patterns

Agent tool loops, human-in-the-loop, sub-agent delegation, and CLIs for coding agents.

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Deploying

Sync your app, Connect workers, checkpointing, self-hosting, and cloud provider guides.

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SDK Reference

TypeScript v3 & v4, Python, steps, serve, realtime, and middleware references.

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Examples

AI agents & RAG, email sequences, scheduling, durable fetch, realtime streaming, and more.

About this reference

This is an internal, self-contained SOP mirror of the Inngest documentation, organized to match the source structure: Learn, Reference, and Examples. Use the sidebar to browse, the top search to jump to a topic, or the Ask the Docs chat widget (bottom-right) once RAG is wired.

Inngest is a durable workflow engine for AI applications: write reliable background jobs and multi-step AI pipelines as regular code, with step-level retries, event coordination, throttling, concurrency controls, and built-in observability — no infrastructure to manage.