kafka-docs

kafka-docs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cookieMonsterDev/agents-skills. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,176 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide for Apache Kafka, a system that moves streams of events between applications and services. It grounds answers in the official Kafka 4.3 documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build, configure, secure, operate, replicate, monitor, upgrade, or troubleshoot Kafka clusters and applications, including producers, consumers, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams.
Why use it?
It helps avoid advice based on outdated Kafka versions or older ZooKeeper-based setups. It points to authoritative documentation instead of relying on memory.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/cookiemonsterdev/agents-skills/kafka-docs
Any agent
npx skills add cookieMonsterDev/agents-skills --skill kafka-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cookieMonsterDev/agents-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,176 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 5.1 $0.00103 $0.01176
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00588
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00235
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00118

Measured 6d ago against content hash f2b74d3b4896, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kafka-docs 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 6d 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.

docs-skills/kafka-docs/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kafka questions are easy to answer from stale memory or ZooKeeper-era patterns. Use this skill to ground answers in the official Apache Kafka 4.3 documentation and return the closest authoritative page instead of generic messaging advice.

When to Use

Use this skill when the request is about:

  • Kafka concepts, terminology, events, topics, partitions, and replication
  • Producers, consumers, consumer groups, offsets, and delivery semantics
  • Broker configuration, topic configuration, and cluster operations
  • KRaft mode, controller quorum, and migration from ZooKeeper
  • Security: listeners, SSL/TLS, SASL, and ACLs
  • Kafka Connect connectors, source/sink integration, and connector development
  • Kafka Streams applications, state stores, windowing, and processing guarantees
  • Monitoring, hardware sizing, datacenter deployment, and geo-replication
  • Tiered storage, transactions, and consumer rebalance protocol
  • Upgrading Kafka, compatibility, and Docker deployment

Do not use this skill for:

  • A different Kafka major/minor version when the user explicitly needs that version. Say which version you are using and offer to switch docs if needed.
  • Managed AWS MSK console operations when the question is provider-specific rather than Kafka behavior. Use aws-cli-docs for AWS CLI commands against MSK.
  • Redis streams or pub/sub. Use redis-docs instead.
  • Third-party client library APIs not covered by Kafka docs unless the question is about core Kafka protocol or configuration behavior.

Workflow

1. Classify the request

Decide which bucket the question belongs to before searching:

  • Getting started and quickstart
  • Core design and protocol concepts
  • Producer, consumer, and admin client configuration
  • Broker, topic, and group configuration
  • Cluster operations and scaling
  • KRaft and metadata management
  • Security and ACLs
  • Kafka Connect
  • Kafka Streams
  • Monitoring, hardware, and production operations
  • Upgrading, compatibility, and migration

If you need a quick starting point, load references/topic-map.md and jump to the closest section.

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 6d ago First seen · 106 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A f2b74d3b4896

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kafka-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository cookieMonsterDev/agents-skills (4 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,176 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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