Dagu Workflow Orchestration Skill

Expert-level skill for building, deploying, and managing Dagu workflows for task orchestration, automation, and pipeline management.

Overview

Dagu is a compact, portable workflow engine that provides declarative orchestration of command execution across diverse environments. This skill covers complete workflow design patterns from simple cron replacements to complex multi-step pipelines with error handling, notifications, and distributed execution.

What Dagu Can Do

• Task Orchestration: Chain shell commands, scripts, Docker containers, or remote SSH commands
• Scheduling: Cron-based scheduling, one-time execution, or event-driven triggers
• Error Handling: Automatic retry with exponential backoff, failure notifications, error isolation
• Parallel Execution: Run steps concurrently with dependency management
• Monitoring: Web UI, logs, history tracking, and status monitoring
• Integration: HTTP APIs, databases (PostgreSQL, SQLite), message queues (Redis), cloud storage (S3)

What Dagu Cannot Do