Waleed 04e0fe00c0 fix(trigger): let workers see that Trigger.dev is available (#6869)
* fix(trigger): let workers see that Trigger.dev is available

Workers run Trigger.dev by definition, but the flag saying so is read from the
environment and had only ever been set on the app container. isTriggerAvailable()
was therefore false inside every task run, so work a task dispatched silently
took the in-process fallback instead of the queue it was written for.

Document processing is where this showed: a connector sync chunked and embedded
its documents itself, five at a time, rather than handing them to the
document-processing queue. The queue's concurrency limit, the per-document task's
machine, retry policy and duration budget all sat unused, and a sync with
thousands of documents ran until it hit its own max duration. It also explains
why that task has no runs for connector-synced knowledge bases at all.

Asserting the flag here is safe because the same check still requires
TRIGGER_SECRET_KEY, which only the Trigger.dev runtime provides: anywhere
dispatching is not actually possible the flag stays ineffective and behaviour is
unchanged.

Dispatch failure is now recoverable rather than silent. Only a total failure
raised before, so one failed batch left its documents at pending with nothing
recording why. Those are processed in-process instead, which costs the caller
the time it hoped to hand to the queue but does not drop the work. That path was
unreachable from a worker until this change made dispatching happen there.

* refactor: tighten the comments on this change and the quota classification

Both sets explained the incident that motivated the code rather than the code
itself. That kind of narrative stops being true as the surrounding system moves
and starts misleading instead, so each is cut back to the reason a reader needs.
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Open sim.ai

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