kafka

kafka is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ashish7802/awesome-api-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (655 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Apache Kafka, a distributed system for storing and processing streams of events such as clicks or sensor readings. It keeps events in an append-only log that multiple consumers can read.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running Kafka, designing topics and partitions, scaling consumer groups, and choosing Kafka alongside tools such as RabbitMQ or Redis Streams.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand Kafka’s partitioning and ordering rules so event-processing systems can scale without assuming it behaves like a simple message queue.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Running Kafka, designing topics and partitions, scaling consumer groups, and choosing Kafka alongside tools such as RabbitMQ or Redis Streams.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills/kafka
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ashish7802/awesome-api-skills --skill kafka
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashish7802/awesome-api-skills

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When invoked 655 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
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
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Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00328
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00065

Measured 10d ago against content hash 61ba59469f10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kafka 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (examples/basic.py, examples/consumer.ts, examples/producer.ts, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

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/kafka/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apache Kafka Skill

Distributed event streaming platform.

Ecosystem Graph Preview

graph LR
  kafka["kafka"]:::core
  classDef core fill:#f9f,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px;
  kafka -- "alternative to" --> rabbitmq
  kafka -- "alternative to" --> redis-streams
  nats -- "related to" --> kafka
  rabbitmq -- "alternative to" --> kafka
  redis-streams -- "alternative to" --> kafka
  • rabbitmq (Score: 0.9) Why: Direct relationship, Both are Messaging, Shared ecosystem (infrastructure), Can deploy to aws
  • redis-streams (Score: 0.8) Why: Direct relationship, Both are Messaging, Can deploy to aws
  • nats (Score: 0.7) Why: Direct relationship, Both are Messaging

Quick Start

Kafka is not a queue; it is a distributed, append-only log. It excels at handling massive event streams (like clickstreams or IoT telemetry) by distributing partitions across a cluster.

docker run -p 9092:9092 apache/kafka:latest

Production Patterns

Consumer Groups and Partitions

Kafka guarantees message ordering only within a single partition. To scale out, you must increase the number of partitions for a topic. The maximum number of concurrent consumers in a group is strictly equal to the number of partitions.

Architecture & Scaling

Log Retention

Unlike RabbitMQ where messages are deleted once consumed, Kafka retains messages on disk based on a retention policy (e.g., 7 days or 100GB). This allows new consumer groups to replay the entire history of events from the beginning.

Error Recovery

If a consumer is too slow, Kafka will trigger a 'rebalance', pausing message processing for the entire group. Ensure your consumer's max.poll.interval.ms is tuned properly, and keep processing logic completely asynchronous from the polling loop.

Security Notes

Enable SASL/SCRAM for client authentication and TLS for in-transit encryption. Kafka without security is completely open to the network.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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. 10d ago First seen · 70 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 61ba59469f10

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kafka is a skill published in the GitHub repository ashish7802/awesome-api-skills (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 655 tokens. 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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