feat(sdk,webapp): add tags.delete() to remove tags from a run

[claude]

Requested by Matt Aitken · Slack thread

Before / After

Before: tags were add-only. Once a tag was on a run — set at trigger time or via tags.add() — there was no way to take it off. A run that used tags to signal state (status_processing, then status_done) accumulated both forever, and there was no public API or SDK function to remove one.

After: you can remove tags from inside a run:

import { tags, task } from "@trigger.dev/sdk";

export const myTask = task({
  id: "my-task",
  run: async () => {
    await tags.add("status_processing");
    // ...
    await tags.delete("status_processing"); // or tags.delete(["a", "b"])
    await tags.add("status_done");
  },
});

This removes the tags from that run only. It is not a global or org-wide delete: every other run carrying the same tag keeps it, and the tag stays available to filter by. That holds by construction — a run's tags are just strings in its own runTags array, not rows in a shared table.

Removing a tag the run doesn't have is an idempotent success rather than a 404, so you don't have to read the run's current tags first. An empty or blank-only list is also a no-op success. The 10-tag cap doesn't apply to a removal, since a removal can only shrink the list.

How

• SDK — tags.delete added to the tags namespace in packages/trigger-sdk/src/v3/tags.ts, mirroring addTags' in-a-run guard. Both add and delete now carry JSDoc.
• Core — RemoveTagsRequestBody in schemas/api.ts (reusing RunTags) and ApiClient#removeTags in apiClient/index.ts.
• HTTP — DELETE /api/v1/runs/:runId/tags with a { tags } body. The existing hand-rolled route (api.v1.runs.$runId.tags.ts) now switches on method instead of hard-rejecting non-POST. The POST path is unchanged: same auth, same status codes, same response shapes. Deliberately not converted to createActionApiRoute and no RBAC authorization gate was added, because either would change behaviour for narrowly-scoped JWTs. The route module still exports only action.
• Store — RunStore#removeTags (types.ts, PostgresRunStore.ts, runOpsStore.ts). It's a single UPDATE that rebuilds the array with unnest, so there's no read-modify-write window for a concurrent pushTags to be lost inside. unnest rather than EXCEPT because EXCEPT would dedupe and reorder the surviving tags. Raw SQL doesn't fire Prisma's @updatedAt, so "updatedAt" is set explicitly and returned — realtime uses it as the read-your-writes watermark. Both the legacy and dedicated schema variants are handled, following expireRunsBatch's array-binding convention.
• Buffer — a remove_tags SnapshotPatch and Lua branch in packages/redis-worker/src/mollifier/buffer.ts, for runs not yet materialised into Postgres. The branch has to exist: an unhandled patch type falls into the terminal else that returns busy, which surfaces as a 2s stall then a 503. When the last tag goes, the Lua drops the tags field rather than writing an empty table, because cjson encodes an empty Lua table as {} (a JSON object) — an absent tags is the same shape a run triggered without tags has, and every reader already normalises it to an empty list.

No ClickHouse or replication changes are needed: task_runs_v2 is a ReplacingMergeTree keyed on _version, so the TaskRun UPDATE replicates as a replacement row correctly.

Realtime limitation

On the Postgres path the route publishes a change record with the remaining tag set, the same way the add path does. That means a subscribeToRunsWithTag subscriber to a removed tag simply stops receiving the run — there is no "tag removed" un-subscribe signal. That's an accepted limitation of this PR.

Testing

• internal-packages/run-store/src/PostgresRunStore.test.ts — 8 postgresTest cases for removeTags: removes one, removes several, tag-not-present is a no-op, removing all leaves [], survivor order preserved, survivor duplicates preserved (proving no EXCEPT dedupe), a run in a different runtimeEnvironmentId is untouched (returns null), and updatedAt is refreshed and matches what was stored.
• packages/redis-worker/src/mollifier/buffer.test.ts — 6 redisTest cases for remove_tags, mirroring the append_tags set: survivor order, unknown-tag no-op, no-tags-field no-op, removing the last tag never writing a JSON object for tags, remove_tags then append_tags rebuilding a dense array, and not_found (not busy) for an unknown run.

Verified locally: pnpm run format, pnpm run lint, pnpm run build --filter @trigger.dev/core, --filter @trigger.dev/sdk, --filter @trigger.dev/redis-worker, pnpm run typecheck --filter webapp, pnpm run typecheck --filter @internal/run-store, and pnpm run build --filter webapp (to confirm no server-only import leaked into the client bundle) all pass.

The two new test files were not executed by CI-equivalent tooling in the authoring environment, because the container images testcontainers needs could not be pulled there. Both layers were instead verified against real servers: the removeTags scenarios above against a locally installed PostgreSQL 16 through the real PostgresRunStore (both the legacy and dedicated schema variants, the latter against the run-ops client), and the remove_tags scenarios against a local Redis 7.0 through the real built MollifierBuffer — all passed, including a control case confirming an unhandled patch type still returns busy — so both files should be re-run in CI.

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