Pause a Trigger.dev v4 run with wait.for/wait.until and run subtasks with triggerAndWait without burning compute
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Documented steps
Import from the v4 SDK: `import { task, wait } from "@trigger.dev/sdk";` (https://trigger.dev/docs/wait).
For a fixed delay call `await wait.for({ seconds: 5 })` — units are seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years (https://trigger.dev/docs/wait-for).
To resume at an instant call `await wait.until({ date: new Date(payload.date) })`, optionally with `throwIfInThePast: true` (https://trigger.dev/docs/wait-until).
To run a subtask and block on it: `const result = await childTask.triggerAndWait(payload);` then check `result.ok` before reading `result.output`, or call `.unwrap()` to get the output directly and throw on failure.
For parallel subtasks use `await childTask.batchTriggerAndWait(items)` rather than `Promise.all()` of individual triggerAndWait calls.
Make waits retry-safe by passing `idempotencyKey` (and optionally `idempotencyKeyTTL`) to `wait.for`/`wait.until`.
Rely on the documented checkpoint behavior: waiting on a subtask trigger checkpoints the parent and does not count toward compute usage; time-based waits longer than 5 seconds are also checkpointed and excluded from compute usage.
Known gotchas
`triggerAndWait` and `batchTriggerAndWait` only work inside a task — calling them from ordinary backend code throws.
Time-based waits shorter than about 5 seconds are NOT checkpointed and still consume compute.
`triggerAndWait` resolves with a result object, not the output — reading `result.output` without checking `result.ok` silently uses undefined on failure.
batchTriggerAndWait items per call: 1,000 on SDK 4.3.1+, 500 on earlier v4 SDKs (https://trigger.dev/docs/limits).
The current docs state no maximum subtask nesting depth — do not assume deep nesting is safe; the documented bounds are concurrency limits (Free 10, Hobby 25, Pro 100+) and the 14-day run TTL.
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