kafka

kafka is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aspectrr/deer. It costs 39 tokens per session (915 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for operating Apache Kafka, a system that moves streams of messages between applications. It covers topics, consumer groups, message testing, broker health, partitions, offsets, and pipeline debugging.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage topics, monitor consumer lag, produce or read test messages, inspect partitions, and debug Logstash pipelines connected to Kafka.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose missing or delayed messages, connection problems, unhealthy brokers, and consumers that are falling behind.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aspectrr/deer/kafka
Any agent
npx skills add aspectrr/deer --skill kafka
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aspectrr/deer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 915 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00039 $0.00915
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00458
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00092

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6dd166ffe52d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d ago.

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.

deer-cli/internal/skill/defaults/kafka/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kafka Operations

When to Use

  • Managing Kafka topics (create, describe, delete, list)
  • Monitoring consumer group lag
  • Producing or consuming messages for testing
  • Diagnosing broker connectivity issues
  • Checking partition offsets and health
  • Debugging logstash pipelines that read from or write to Kafka

Common Commands

Cluster Status

# Check broker health
kafka-broker-api-versions --bootstrap-server localhost:9092

# List topics with partition counts
kafka-topics --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --list

# Describe a topic (partitions, replicas, ISR)
kafka-topics --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --describe --topic <topic>

Topic Management

# Create topic
kafka-topics --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --create --topic <name> --partitions 3 --replication-factor 1

# Delete topic
kafka-topics --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --delete --topic <name>

# Increase partitions
kafka-topics --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --alter --topic <name> --partitions <count>

Consumer Groups

# List all consumer groups
kafka-consumer-groups --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --list

# Show consumer group lag (key debugging command)
kafka-consumer-groups --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --describe --group <group>

# Reset consumer group offsets (use with caution)
kafka-consumer-groups --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --group <group> --topic <topic> --reset-offsets --to-earliest --execute

Produce and Consume

# Produce a message with key
echo "key:value" | kafka-console-producer --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic <topic> --property "parse.key=true" --property "key.separator=:"

# Consume messages from beginning
kafka-console-consumer --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic <topic> --from-beginning --max-messages 10

# Consume with key and value
kafka-console-consumer --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic <topic> --from-beginning --property print.key=true --property key.separator="|"

Offset Inspection

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 112 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 6dd166ffe52d

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kafka is a skill published in the GitHub repository aspectrr/deer (404 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 915 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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