superpowers-sage:acorn-queues

superpowers-sage:acorn-queues is a skill for Claude Code from hekivo/superpowers-sage. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,970 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to running background jobs in WordPress with Acorn. Background jobs perform work later or outside the user’s immediate request, such as imports or image processing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create recurring tasks, queue long-running work, configure database or Redis workers, add retries and backoff, and manage failed jobs.
Why use it?
It helps choose between WordPress’s built-in scheduled-task system and Laravel-style queues, including how to handle retries and failed jobs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the superpowers-sage plugin — 36 skills, 3 commands, 11 agents, 7 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create recurring tasks, queue long-running work, configure database or Redis workers, add retries and backoff, and manage failed jobs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hekivo/superpowers-sage/acorn-queues
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.

Any agent
npx skills add hekivo/superpowers-sage --skill acorn-queues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hekivo/superpowers-sage

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superpowers-sage, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 3 commands, 11 agents, 7 hooks.

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,970 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.
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 $0.00096 $0.01970
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00985
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00394
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00197

Measured 11d ago against content hash de448e1bd9d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

superpowers-sage:acorn-queues 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/create-job.sh, scripts/run-worker.sh), 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.

plugins/superpowers-sage/skills/acorn-queues/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Queues, Jobs, and Background Tasks

When to Use What

Criteria Action Scheduler Laravel Queue + Job
Best for Simple recurring tasks, WP-native workflows Robust async, retry logic, heavy computation
Infrastructure None — runs on WP cron Needs queue driver (database or Redis)
Retry/backoff Manual Built-in ($tries, $backoff, exponential)
Monitoring WP Admin > Tools > Scheduled Actions lando acorn queue:failed, logs
Examples Daily cleanups, content sync, email digests Image processing, API syncs, bulk imports
Already available Bundled with WooCommerce; standalone via woocommerce/action-scheduler Requires Acorn queue config + worker

Rule of thumb: Start with Action Scheduler for simple recurring WordPress tasks. Move to Laravel Queue + Job when you need retries, backoff, chaining, batching, or processing that could take more than a few seconds.

Quick Start — Laravel Queue

# 1. Create a job class
bash skills/acorn-queues/scripts/create-job.sh ProcessImage

# 2. Create queue tables (database driver)
lando acorn queue:table
lando acorn queue:failed-table
lando acorn migrate

# 3. Set driver in .env
# QUEUE_CONNECTION=database

# 4. Start a worker
bash skills/acorn-queues/scripts/run-worker.sh
bash skills/acorn-queues/scripts/run-worker.sh emails

Quick Start — Action Scheduler

# Install (if not using WooCommerce)
lando composer require woocommerce/action-scheduler
// Schedule once
as_schedule_single_action(strtotime('+10 minutes'), 'app/sync_content', ['post_id' => 42], 'content-sync');

// Schedule recurring (guard against duplicates)
if (! as_has_scheduled_action('app/cleanup_tokens', [], 'maintenance')) {
    as_schedule_recurring_action(time(), HOUR_IN_SECONDS, 'app/cleanup_tokens', [], 'maintenance');
}

Register callbacks in ThemeServiceProvider::boot():

add_action('app/sync_content', function (int $postId): void {
    $this->app->make(\App\Services\ContentSyncService::class)->syncPost($postId);
});

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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. 11d ago First seen · 182 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A de448e1bd9d9

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superpowers-sage:acorn-queues is a skill published in the GitHub repository hekivo/superpowers-sage (13 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,970 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 2026-08-30.

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