batch-processing-jobs

batch-processing-jobs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts. It costs 41 tokens per session (575 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to running large or slow tasks as jobs handled in the background, often through queues, schedules, and worker processes. A queue is a holding area that lets work be processed separately from the user's immediate request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for large data processing, scheduled reports, email campaigns, imports and exports, media processing, data pipelines, cleanup, and bulk updates.
Why use it?
Long-running work can make applications feel slow or fail when too much arrives at once. Background jobs help separate heavy processing from the main application flow and organize retries or results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for large data processing, scheduled reports, email campaigns, imports and exports, media processing, data pipelines, cleanup, and bulk updates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/batch-processing-jobs
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill batch-processing-jobs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 575 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 5 Mar 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00041 $0.00575
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00287
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00057

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0111c96a38dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

batch-processing-jobs scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-pipeline.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/batch-processing-jobs/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Batch Processing Jobs

Table of Contents

Overview

Implement scalable batch processing systems for handling large-scale data processing, scheduled tasks, and async operations efficiently.

When to Use

  • Processing large datasets
  • Scheduled report generation
  • Email/notification campaigns
  • Data imports and exports
  • Image/video processing
  • ETL pipelines
  • Cleanup and maintenance tasks
  • Long-running computations
  • Bulk data updates

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

import Queue from "bull";
import { v4 as uuidv4 } from "uuid";

interface JobData {
  id: string;
  type: string;
  payload: any;
  userId?: string;
  metadata?: Record<string, any>;
}

interface JobResult {
  success: boolean;
  data?: any;
  error?: string;
  processedAt: number;
  duration: number;
}

class BatchProcessor {
  private queue: Queue.Queue<JobData>;
  private resultQueue: Queue.Queue<JobResult>;

  constructor(redisUrl: string) {
    // Main processing queue
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide Contents
Bull Queue (Node.js) Bull Queue (Node.js)
Celery-Style Worker (Python) Celery-Style Worker (Python)
Cron Job Scheduler Cron Job Scheduler

Best Practices

✅ DO

  • Implement idempotency for all jobs
  • Use job queues for distributed processing
  • Monitor job success/failure rates
  • Implement retry logic with exponential backoff
  • Set appropriate timeouts
  • Log job execution details
  • Use dead letter queues for failed jobs
  • Implement job priority levels
  • Batch similar operations together
  • Use connection pooling
  • Implement graceful shutdown
  • Monitor queue depth and processing time

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 104 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 0111c96a38dc

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batch-processing-jobs is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (336 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 575 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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