Convex Workflow
Convex component for building and executing durable serverless workflows.
Jobs, queues and workflows npm Apache-2.0
How Convex Workflow is used
Convex Workflow is a dependency in 3 of the 6,230 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 3,043, Ethereum and EVM 1,756, 3D and games 3,105, agent frameworks and SDKs 13,447); counting those, it appears in 32 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is BullMQ (34 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Convex (100.0%), AI SDK (81.2%), Convex Agent (78.1%).
Convex Workflow popularity over time
Gid Score 36: downloads 56, use in agent projects 34, GitHub stars 0, downloads trend 55 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Convex Workflow
| Convex | 100.0% of Convex Workflow projects · 178.0× more than average |
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| AI SDK | 81.2% of Convex Workflow projects · 18.5× more than average |
| Convex Agent | 78.1% of Convex Workflow projects · 2433.6× more than average |
| clsx | 71.9% of Convex Workflow projects · 3.7× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 68.8% of Convex Workflow projects · 3.7× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 90.6% of Convex Workflow projects · 2.8× more than average |
| React | 87.5% of Convex Workflow projects · 2.7× more than average |
| Class Variance Authority | 56.2% of Convex Workflow projects · 3.4× more than average |
From all 32 projects in our scan that use Convex Workflow, including the dependency samples.
Agent Skills for Convex Workflow
| workflow-orchestration-patterns from wshobson/agents | Design durable workflows with Temporal for distributed systems. Covers workflow vs activity separation, saga patterns, state management, and determinism constr…npx skills add wshobson/agents --skill workflow-orchestration-patterns |
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| workflow-from-chats from cursor/plugins | Extract durable working preferences from recent Cursor chats and convert them into skills, rules, or workflow docs. Use when asked to learn preferences, mine f…npx skills add cursor/plugins --skill workflow-from-chats |
| workflow-runner from jnMetaCode/superpowers-zh | 在 Claude Code / OpenClaw / Cursor 中直接运行 agency-orchestrator YAML 工作流——无需 API key，使用当前会话的 LLM 作为执行引擎。当用户提供 .yaml 工作流文件或要求多角色协作完成任务时触发。npx skills add jnMetaCode/superpowers-zh --skill workflow-runner |
| workflow-schema-tuning from breaking-brake/cc-wf-studio | Use when modifying `resources/workflow-schema.json` in cc-wf-studio to influence how AI agents generate workflows via the cc-workflow-ai-editor skill. Triggers…npx skills add breaking-brake/cc-wf-studio --skill workflow-schema-tuning |
| workflow-skill-creator from google-deepmind/science-skills | Distills a completed user workflow or interaction into a reusable agent skill. Use when the user asks to turn their workflow, interaction, or multi-step proces… has scriptsnpx skills add google-deepmind/science-skills --skill workflow-skill-creator |
| workflow from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace | Use when a task is too large for turn-by-turn orchestration and should run through the big-task workflow lane: system-wide changes, large migrations, repo-wide…npx skills add jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace --skill workflow |
Skills teach your coding agent how to use Convex Workflow well. Official means the pack comes from the same GitHub account as Convex Workflow. Read a skill before installing it: it can include scripts. All Agent Skills
Install
| Package | npm install @convex-dev/workflow |
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| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (19), Next.js (13) |
| Example projects | convex/agent, VecterAI/reacher-x, SuperiorAgents/superior-agents, michaelshimeles/convex-workflow, LaykenV/modern-hack |
Alternatives to Convex Workflow
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Convex Workflow are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BullMQ npm Fast, reliable Redis-backed queue for jobs and messages in Node.js. |
64 | 34 (0.7%) | 13.2M | 9,568 | MIT |
| Inngest npm Durable execution, events and queues platform for reliable workflows and background jobs. |
54 | 17 (0.4%) | 3.4M | 1,021 | Apache-2.0 |
| Trigger.dev npm · new in the catalog Background jobs and long-running tasks in TypeScript, with retries and queues. |
56 | 6 (0.1%) | 1.8M | 16.7K | MIT |
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