oban

A setup skill for Oban, an Elixir library that runs background jobs and scheduled tasks in Phoenix web apps. It adds job queues, database storage, retries, a web dashboard, and test support.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for email sending, third-party API calls, report generation, file processing, recurring jobs, and inspecting, retrying, or cancelling jobs.
Why use it?
It moves slow or recurring work out of web requests and keeps jobs stored reliably instead of losing them when a process stops.

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/fullstack-phoenix/saas_kit/oban
Any agent
npx skills add fullstack-phoenix/saas_kit --skill oban
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fullstack-phoenix/saas_kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,378 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 $0.00045 $0.01378
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00689
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00138

Measured yesterday against content hash 1941b03bd847, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

oban 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 yesterday.

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/oban/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Oban background jobs

Integrates Oban, the database-backed job processing library, into the Phoenix app. Adds the oban + oban_web deps, four queues (default, mailers, high, low), the Pruner and Cron plugins, the oban_jobs migration, the Oban Web dashboard, and test helpers wired into :manual mode. This is a core feature.

When to use

  • The app needs to run work outside the request cycle: sending email, calling third-party APIs, generating reports, processing uploads.
  • You need scheduled/recurring jobs (cron) or reliable retries with persistence.
  • You want a dashboard to inspect, retry, and cancel jobs.
  • Don't reach for this if a fire-and-forget Task is enough and you don't need persistence, retries, or scheduling.

Dependencies

  • Requires: None.
  • Recommended: None. If authentication/admin is installed, the installer mounts the dashboard at /admin/oban; otherwise it mounts under /dashboard.

Install

mix saaskit.feature.install oban

No interactive decisions. The installer:

  • Adds {:oban, "~> 2.20.0"} and {:oban_web, "~> 2.11.0"} to mix.exs.
  • Picks the Oban engine from the boilerplate's DB choice: Oban.Engines.Lite for sqlite3, Oban.Engines.Basic otherwise.
  • Mounts the Oban Web dashboard at /admin/oban (admin present) or /dashboard.

What it generates

  • config/config.exsconfig :my_app, Oban block (engine, repo, queues, plugins).
  • config/test.exsconfig :my_app, Oban, testing: :manual.
  • lib/my_app/application.ex{Oban, Application.fetch_env!(:my_app, Oban)} in the supervision tree, after the Endpoint.
  • lib/my_app_web/router.eximport Oban.Web.Router and an oban_dashboard route.
  • migration priv/repo/migrations/*_add_oban_jobs_table.exsOban.Migration.up(version: 12), creates the oban_jobs table.
  • test/support/conn_case.ex and test/support/data_case.exuse Oban.Testing, repo: MyApp.Repo.

Configuration

Injected into config/config.exs:

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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. yesterday First seen · 143 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 1941b03bd847

Subscribe to this mod's changes

oban is a skill published in the GitHub repository fullstack-phoenix/saas_kit (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,378 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 2026-08-31.

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