Descriptions:
Nate Herk demonstrates how to pair Claude Code with Trigger.dev to move AI agents and automation workflows off a local machine and into persistent cloud infrastructure. The video opens with two live examples built in under 30 minutes: a YouTube channel monitor that checks a specified creator for new videos and extracts key highlights, and a ClickUp-integrated research agent that triggers automatically when a new company name is added as a task, conducts multi-step web research, and posts a structured report as a comment — with the ability to continue a conversational back-and-forth inside ClickUp.
The tutorial covers Trigger.dev’s core advantages over alternatives like Modal: native scheduling (tasks running every two minutes or every eight hours), automatic retries with exponential backoff on failure, task queuing, and orchestration across multiple agent tools. Herk shows how Claude Code generates the full TypeScript project structure — including idempotency logic to prevent duplicate ClickUp entries — and walks through the deployment flow from dev environment testing to production.
A third live build illustrates the real-world messiness of agent development: a Monday morning lead generation agent designed to query Yelp Fusion for dental practices pivots mid-build when Claude Code discovers Yelp’s free API tier has been discontinued, automatically switching to SerpAPI instead. The video is a practical end-to-end reference for developers wanting to deploy Claude Code automations as always-on, fault-tolerant cloud agents rather than one-off local scripts.
📺 Source: Nate Herk · Published February 20, 2026
🏷️ Format: Hands On Build
