{"slug": "unlock-new-workflows-with-smart-triggers-powered-by-jev", "title": "Unlock new workflows with smart triggers, powered by Jev", "summary": "Modem launched smart triggers, which use Jev, the decision model from TypeSafe, to evaluate each incoming event against a plain-English condition before spinning up the Modem agent. Modem said Jev evaluates conditions in under a second at a cost of 1/100th of a cent, so the agent only runs on events that match, letting users run more automations for fewer agent usage credits. The feature is available today to all Modem users and can be created in-app, from Slack or Discord, or through Modem's MCP plugins for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.", "body_md": "[All posts](https://modem.ai/blog)\n\n# Unlock new workflows with smart triggers, powered by Jev\n\n*Use Jev to control when Modem takes action.*\n\nAt Modem, support tickets, calls, Slack messages, emails and in-app feedback from customers come in all day, and we want Modem's agent to act on them as they land - to alert your team, create tickets, or other agentic workflows. But that meant spinning up a full agent run per-event, even if there was nothing to act on.\n\nSmart triggers change that. Now before spinning up the Modem agent, we first evaluate each event using Jev, the decision model from [TypeSafe](https://typesafe.ai), against a plain-English condition. These conditions can be customizable by you, and are evaluated in under a second and cost 1/100th of a cent. The agent only runs on the ones that match.\n\nThis means Modem users can now run far more custom automations, covering more workflows — *for less agent usage credits* — to cover the customer and product observability demands of your entire organization. And it's available today for everyone.\n\n## Use Jev to filter triggered events\n\nThe easiest way to get started with smart triggers is to create or update your automations using the Modem agent, either in-app or from Slack or Discord. Modem will automatically use Smart Triggers to ensure automations only run when they need to.\n\nBut you can also create and update them manually from the [Automations](https://app.modem.dev/org/automations) page.\n\nFirst choose an event, like \"a support ticket has new activity\", and optionally scope the event using the **+ Filter** selector. In the example above, support ticket activity is filtered to Intercom activity coming from customers.\n\nHere's where smart triggers comes in. You additionally scope the event to trigger on a natural language prompt using the **+ Analyze** button. In the example above, if Jev detects that a customer is reporting a broken product experience, the Modem agent comes alive and sends a triage update to `#eng-triage`.\n\nThis is just one example demonstrating the power of short triggers. Let's talk about some others.\n\n## Unlock new workflows\n\nTickets, calls, pull requests, issues, feedback and posts on X were too noisy to automate on when every event cost a run. Now an automation can subscribe to the whole stream, scope it to a source, channel or state change, and filter it down to the relevant events with your condition.\n\nHere's some recipes you can try today:\n\nBefore smart triggers, the agent itself would evaluate these conditions with a slow and expensive frontier-level model - making many workflows cost-prohibitive. But since these conditions are now evaluated with Jev, it's feasible for any organization to run them at any scale.\n\n## Create one from your coding agent\n\nModem today has plugins for [Claude](https://claude.ai/directory/modem), [ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6aa301615af48191a59c3febcdef6ec2), [Cursor](https://cursor.com/marketplace/modem), and of course any agent via [MCP](https://modem.ai/mcp).\n\nIf you've plugged Modem into your agent, you can create smart triggered automations without leaving it.\n\nAsk whichever one you already have open:\n\nYour agent uses Modem's MCP to create the automation, including the scope and the smart trigger condition.\n\n## A new age of customer workflows\n\nSmart triggers and Jev are an exciting new change to the Modem platform. Now you can create bespoke custom workflows, triggered from activity detected in any of your customer channels. You can route concerns to the team that cares most, trigger coding agents to take a first pass, and many other agentic workflows. And the agent only does the work if there's work to be done.\n\nEarlier this month we moved to [modem.ai](https://modem.ai/), and launched a whole new website positioned around how we find, fix, and follow up on customer concerns. 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