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Do AI agents pick Graphile Worker?

How often agents choose Graphile Worker when a developer needs background jobs & queues — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Graphile Worker

#5 of 5 queues
0%Pick Rate
95% CI 0%3%

When developers ask an AI agent for queues, Graphile Worker is picked 0% of the time — ranking #5 of 5 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 0% Named, not picked 5% Never surfaced 95%

Beaten by BullMQ (17%), Temporal (5%), Inngest (2%), Trigger.dev (0%).

Awareness

303K package downloads / week

Thin presence in the data models learn from — an awareness problem. Get into more code, docs, and developer discussion.

0 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 2 URLs in Common Crawl

In the raw web crawl, but thin in the filtered corpus models actually train on — an awareness gap at the source.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

1.3M installs / month ▲ 44% MoM

Growing despite a low Pick Rate — winning the agent pick is upside, not a dependency.

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About Graphile Worker

A background job queue for PostgreSQL-backed Node.js applications.

Graphile Worker lets you offload tasks — such as sending emails, generating PDFs, or running calculations — to background workers so your main application code isn't blocked waiting for them to complete. It uses PostgreSQL as its queue store, meaning no additional infrastructure is required beyond a database you likely already have. It works with any PostgreSQL-backed application and pairs particularly well with PostGraphile and PostgREST.

Where to start

Install the package, point it at your existing PostgreSQL database, and define task handler functions that Graphile Worker will execute when jobs are queued. The project's documentation site at worker.graphile.org covers setup, task definition, and job scheduling in detail.

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