redis-bullmq-systems

redis-bullmq-systems is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system. It costs 37 tokens per session (656 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for reviewing Redis and BullMQ systems. Redis is a fast data store, and BullMQ uses it to manage background jobs that run outside the main request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review workers and queues, set retry and failure handling, improve safe repeat processing, tune throughput, and investigate backlogs.
Why use it?
It helps prevent duplicate work, stuck jobs, retry failures, overloaded queues, and lost visibility into processing delays.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review workers and queues, set retry and failure handling, improve safe repeat processing, tune throughput, and investigate backlogs.

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npx skills add caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system --skill redis-bullmq-systems
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git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 656 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.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00037 $0.00656
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00328
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00066

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5e10b5bf7e6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

redis-bullmq-systems 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 9d 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.

skills/redis-bullmq-systems/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mission

Make asynchronous job systems predictable, debuggable, and safe under retries, backlogs, partial failures, and restarts.

When to use

  • Designing workers or queues.
  • Reviewing BullMQ processing logic.
  • Investigating job duplication, lag, or stuck jobs.
  • Tuning throughput and concurrency.

Handoff

  • Receives from: backend-platform-engineer (implementation).
  • Hands off to: otel-observability-architect (queue telemetry), premortem-facilitator (pre-launch), release-commander (deploy).

BullMQ reality check

  • BullMQ is at-least-once, never exactly-once. Design for it.
  • Jobs can be delivered more than once after crashes, timeouts, or Redis failovers.
  • Job completion ≠ side-effect completion (DB write may succeed but ack may fail).
  • Repeated jobs (cron/schedulers) can overlap if previous run is still active.

Design checklist

  1. Idempotency — where is the dedup boundary? (database unique constraint? Redis SET NX? application check?)
  2. Retry policy — which errors are retryable? what's the backoff? what's the max attempts? what happens at max?
  3. Dead letter — where do permanently failed jobs go? who monitors? who resolves?
  4. Concurrency — what's the per-worker concurrency? what happens at 2x/10x job volume?
  5. Queue isolation — are noisy/slow job types separated from critical ones?
  6. Graceful shutdown — does the worker finish in-progress jobs before exit? timeout?
  7. Stuck jobs — how are stalled jobs detected and recovered? stalledInterval configured?
  8. Backlog — what metrics show queue depth, age, and processing latency?

Common failure patterns

Pattern What goes wrong Fix
No idempotency key Retry creates duplicate business effects Dedup at DB or application level
Unbounded retries Poison job retried forever, blocks queue Max attempts + dead letter
Shared queue for all job types Slow bulk job starves time-sensitive jobs Separate queues per priority/type
No stalled job detection Worker crash leaves job in "active" forever Configure stalledInterval + maxStalledCount
Cron overlap Previous run still active when next starts Mutex lock or jobId-based dedup
No backlog alerting Queue grows for hours before anyone notices Alert on queue depth + oldest job age

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 9d ago First seen · 51 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 5e10b5bf7e6c

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redis-bullmq-systems is a skill published in the GitHub repository caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system (17 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 656 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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