Jobs, queues and workflows for projects built with AI agents
Background jobs, queues, schedulers. 7 tools ranked by how many of 12,697 public projects built with AI coding agents use them, with downloads and GitHub stars. Updated Oct 10, 2026.
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| node-cron npm Job scheduling for Node.js with overlap prevention and distributed coordination. |
74 (0.6%) | 5.1M | 3,280 | ISC |
| APScheduler pypi In-process task scheduler with Cron-like capabilities for Python applications. |
50 (0.4%) | 8.9M | 7,652 | MIT |
| Celery pypi Distributed task queue for Python executing jobs asynchronously across workers. |
48 (0.4%) | 11M | 28.9K | BSD-3-Clause |
| BullMQ npm Fast, reliable Redis-backed queue for jobs and messages in Node.js. |
43 (0.3%) | 9.6M | 9,490 | MIT |
| schedule pypi Simple Python library for scheduling jobs to run at regular intervals. |
29 (0.2%) | 1.3M | 12.3K | MIT License |
| p-queue npm Promise queue with concurrency control for managing async task execution. |
21 (0.2%) | 37.3M | 4,283 | MIT |
| amqplib npm AMQP 0-9-1 client library for RabbitMQ and message-based workflows. |
20 (0.2%) | 3M | 3,844 | MIT |
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