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Show HN: Pickaxe – A TypeScript library for building AI agents


Build agents that scale with a zero-cost abstraction. - hatchet-dev/pickaxe

Pickaxe is centered around the benefit of durable execution, which creates automatic checkpoints for agents so that they can easily recover from failure or wait for external events for a very long time without consuming resources. FeaturePickaxeTemporal Durable Execution ✅✅ Event Listeners within Workflows ✅✅ Code-First Workflow Definitions ✅✅ Cron Jobs ✅✅ One-Time Scheduling ✅✅ Flow Control ✅✅ Durable Sleep ✅✅ Global Rate Limits ✅❌ Event-Based Triggering ✅❌ Event Streaming ✅❌ DAG Support ✅❌ Priority Queues ✅❌ Sticky Assignment/Complex Routing Logic ✅❌When writing agents with Pickaxe, it's useful to follow these rules: In other words, the execution history is cached by Pickaxe, which allows the agent to recover gracefully from failure, instead of having to replay a bunch of work.

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