# Rotor

> Durable job queues for GTM engineers — replace n8n, Make, or Vercel Cron with reliable, retryable background jobs that call your own code.

Rotor runs as managed infrastructure. You enqueue jobs via the SDK or REST API; Rotor delivers them to your callback URL with HMAC-signed HTTP POSTs, automatic retries, dead-letter queues, and cron scheduling. No serverless timeouts. No missed cron ticks.

Built for outbound automation workflows: contact enrichment, email sequences, HubSpot sync, campaign fan-outs. Ships a native MCP server so Claude Code and Cursor can manage queues and inspect runs directly.

Key primitives:
- **Queues** — named, concurrency-controlled job channels with per-queue callback URLs
- **Jobs** — enqueue with payload, tags, concurrency keys, and retry config; inspect state via REST
- **Schedules** — cron-triggered job dispatch with timezone support and pause/resume
- **Secrets** — workspace-scoped encrypted values injected into callback payloads at dispatch time
- **Workflows** — multi-step durable flows with step.invoke, step.sendEvent, step.waitForSignal
- **MCP server** — @rotorsh/mcp exposes Rotor tools to any MCP-compatible AI agent

## Get Started

- [Quickstart](https://rotor.sh/docs/quickstart): From zero to first cron tick — install CLI, create a queue, wire a callback handler, watch the first job fire.
- [Node.js SDK](https://rotor.sh/docs/guides/node-quickstart): Enqueue jobs, handle callbacks, use the Worker class in Node.js.
- [CLI reference](https://rotor.sh/docs/guides/cli-quickstart): All `rotor` commands for queues, jobs, schedules, and secrets.

## MCP (Claude Code / Cursor / Claude Desktop)

- [MCP install](https://rotor.sh/docs/mcp/install): Add Rotor tools to Claude Code, Cursor, or Claude Desktop in one command.
- [MCP connection guide](https://rotor.sh/docs/mcp/connection-guide): How the MCP server connects and authenticates to your workspace.
- [Claude Code plugin](https://rotor.sh/docs/skill/install): Install the Rotor skill for Claude Code to manage queues from your editor.

## API Reference

- [Introduction](https://rotor.sh/docs/api-reference/introduction): Base URL, authentication, rate limits, error format, and all 19 REST endpoints.
- [OpenAPI spec (JSON)](https://api.rotor.sh/doc): Machine-readable OpenAPI 3.1 spec for all /v1 endpoints.

## Workflows

- [Workflow quickstart](https://rotor.sh/docs/workflows/quickstart): Write a durable multi-step workflow in under 10 minutes.
- [step.invoke](https://rotor.sh/docs/workflows/step-invoke): Call a sub-function as an individually-retryable step.
- [step.sendEvent](https://rotor.sh/docs/workflows/step-send-event): Emit an event to trigger downstream workflows.
- [step.waitForSignal](https://rotor.sh/docs/workflows/step-wait-for-signal): Pause a workflow until an external signal arrives.

## Migrate From

- [From Inngest](https://rotor.sh/docs/migrate/from-inngest): Side-by-side comparison and migration playbook.
- [From Vercel Cron](https://rotor.sh/docs/migrate/from-vercel-cron): Replace cron-as-a-service with Rotor schedules.
- [From Vercel env vars](https://rotor.sh/docs/migrate/from-vercel-env-vars): Use Rotor workspace secrets instead of Vercel environment variables.

## Full Documentation

- [All docs (single file)](https://rotor.sh/llms-full.txt): Complete documentation concatenated into one plain-text file — load this into context when you need full coverage.