AI agents with GitHub webhooks

Receive GitHub webhooks on Trigger.dev and use them to start, resume or message your AI agents.

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What you can do with GitHub webhooks

Start an agent

GitHub events can start a new agent run. For example, an agent that reviews every GitHub pull request.

Resume an agent

An agent can pause until the GitHub event it needs arrives, for up to 90 days, and costs nothing while it waits.

Message an agent

GitHub events can land in a running agent's conversation, so it acts on them with full context.

Events you can receive from GitHub

Some of the events GitHub sends. Your agent can filter on any of them.

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create
delete
issue_comment
label
ping
pull_request
push
release
star
watch

Example

An agent that reviews every GitHub pull request

import { webhook, webhooks } from "@trigger.dev/sdk";


export const github = webhooks.endpoint.define({
  id: "github",
  source: webhooks.github(),
});


export const githubEvents = webhook({
  id: "github-events",
  endpoint: github,
  onEvent: async ({ event }) => {
    // Start, resume or message your agent with the event
    console.log(event);
  },
});

Handled for you

Docs

Verified for you

webhooks.github() checks the X-Hub-Signature-256 header on every request. Bad requests are rejected before anything runs.

Retries don't run twice

Retries are matched on the x-github-delivery header, so a retried webhook doesn't start a second run.

Filter before anything runs

Only the GitHub events you care about start a run. Filtered webhooks use no compute.

See every delivery

Every webhook is recorded with its payload, headers and the agents it reached, so you can debug it and replay it.

Get started

  1. 1

    Set up the agent

    Copy the starter prompt into your coding agent, like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. It creates a Trigger.dev project and adds the webhook endpoint. Prefer to write it yourself? Start from the example above.

  2. 2

    Add the webhook in GitHub

    Deploy your project, or run trigger dev, and the endpoint appears on the Webhooks page of the Trigger.dev dashboard with its URL. Add that URL in GitHub's webhook settings and pick the events you need. The endpoint's Copy setup prompt button gives your coding agent the exact steps.

  3. 3

    Add a signing secret

    On the endpoint's page in the Trigger.dev dashboard, choose Generate secret. Then paste it into GitHub's webhook settings, so Trigger.dev can check every request really came from GitHub.

  4. 4

    Try it

    Send a test event from GitHub, or use the endpoint's Test tab. It appears on the endpoint's Deliveries tab, with the agents it reached.

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Ready to build with GitHub webhooks?

Declare an endpoint, deploy, and paste the URL into your provider.

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