Inngest MCP Server (Official)

Official Inngest MCP server enabling AI agents to interact with Inngest's event-driven workflow platform — querying function runs, replaying failed functions, inspecting events, and monitoring background job health.

Evaluated Mar 06, 2026 (0d ago) vcurrent
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⚙ Agent Friendliness
78
/ 100
Can an agent use this?
🔒 Security
78
/ 100
Is it safe for agents?
⚡ Reliability
78
/ 100
Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality
78
Documentation
82
Error Messages
78
Auth Simplicity
85
Rate Limits
62

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement
100
Auth Strength
75
Scope Granularity
55
Dep. Hygiene
82
Secret Handling
78

HTTPS enforced. Signing key security model is good. API key scope gap. SOC 2 Type II.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA
80
Version Stability
80
Breaking Changes
78
Error Recovery
75
AF Security Reliability

Best When

An agent needs to debug, replay, or monitor Inngest background functions and event-driven workflows.

Avoid When

You're using Temporal, Celery, BullMQ, or other job queue systems.

Use Cases

  • Checking background job execution status from monitoring agents
  • Replaying failed Inngest function runs from incident response agents
  • Querying recent events for debugging and tracing agents
  • Monitoring function run history and failure patterns
  • Inspecting workflow step-by-step execution history

Not For

  • Teams not using Inngest for background jobs/workflows
  • Real-time data processing at massive scale
  • Simple one-off cron jobs without observability needs

Interface

REST API
Yes
GraphQL
No
gRPC
No
MCP Server
Yes
SDK
Yes
Webhooks
Yes

Authentication

Methods: api_key signing_key
OAuth: No Scopes: No

API keys for management operations. Signing keys for function security. No scope granularity on API key.

Pricing

Model: usage-based
Free tier: Yes
Requires CC: No

Developer-friendly pricing. Inngest is increasingly popular in the Next.js/Vercel ecosystem.

Agent Metadata

Pagination
cursor
Idempotent
Full
Retry Guidance
Documented

Known Gotchas

  • Function runs have complex state machine — agents must understand run status codes
  • Event data can contain sensitive payloads — agents should not log raw events
  • Short history retention on free tier limits debugging for agents
  • App and environment IDs required for most queries
  • Replaying functions is a mutation — implement confirmation logic

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.

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