Event-driven agent execution: lifecycle hooks, scheduled and repository-triggered cloud agents, and the canvases and code-first platforms where triggers start agent work.
- Aeon - the MIT framework that turns a GitHub repo plus Actions into an unattended cron agent driving nine harnesses.
- Airut - the self-hosted gateway that starts sandboxed Claude Code tasks from email and Slack and keeps sessions alive across replies.
- Claude Code Action - the official Action that runs Claude Code on issues and pull requests, triggered by mentions, labels, and schedules.
- Claude Code hooks - lifecycle triggers that turn the harness into an event-driven system.
- Claude Code routines - hosted Claude Code sessions on schedules, API calls, and GitHub events.
- Codex Action - the official Action that runs Codex in workflows behind a key-holding proxy with drop-sudo defaults.
- GitHub Agentic Workflows - markdown-defined automation compiled into hardened Actions runs.
- GitHub Copilot automations - GitHub’s cloud agent on schedules and repository events.
- n8n - the fair-code automation canvas where triggers start workflows and agents.
- Rivet Agents - the Apache-2.0 actor runtime keeping one durable coding agent per key, woken by cron, connectors, and calls.
- Run Gemini CLI - the official Action and workflow suite that runs Gemini CLI on issues, pull requests, and schedules.
- Trigger.dev - the Apache-2.0 code-first platform running TypeScript agent tasks on durable cron, SDK, and batch triggers.
Its members are compared on shared rows in the Executions Feature Matrix.
Changes #
- 2026-08-24 - Added Claude Code hooks.
- 2026-08-24 - Added Copilot automations.
- 2026-08-24 - Added GitHub Agentic Workflows.
- 2026-08-24 - Added n8n.
- 2026-10-06 - Added Claude Code routines.
- 2026-10-08 - Added Aeon.
- 2026-10-10 - Added Trigger.dev.
- 2026-10-11 - Added Airut.
- 2026-10-11 - Added Claude Code Action.
- 2026-10-11 - Added Codex Action.
- 2026-10-11 - Added Run Gemini CLI.
- 2026-10-13 - Added Rivet Agents.