125-java-concurrency

Guidance for writing safer and more scalable concurrent Java code. Concurrency means several tasks can run at the same time, which can cause shared data and timing problems if handled incorrectly.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps configure thread pools, coordinate producer and consumer tasks, compose asynchronous work, use virtual threads, handle cancellation, add backpressure, and avoid lock problems.
Why use it?
It helps prevent thread-safety bugs, deadlocks, overloaded workers, and poorly managed asynchronous tasks.

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Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jabrena/cursor-rules-examples/125-java-concurrency
Any agent
npx skills add jabrena/cursor-rules-examples --skill 125-java-concurrency
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jabrena/cursor-rules-examples

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When invoked 643 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.
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Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00321
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00064

Measured 2d ago against content hash 78ade00585ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

125-java-concurrency 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 2d ago.

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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.

.agents/skills/125-java-concurrency/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Java rules for Concurrency objects

Identify and apply Java concurrency best practices to improve thread safety, scalability, and maintainability by using modern java.util.concurrent utilities and virtual threads.

What is covered in this Skill?

  • Thread safety fundamentals: ConcurrentHashMap, AtomicInteger, ReentrantLock, ReadWriteLock, Java Memory Model
  • ExecutorService thread pool configuration: sizing, keep-alive, bounded queues, rejection policies, graceful shutdown
  • Producer-Consumer and Publish-Subscribe patterns with BlockingQueue
  • CompletableFuture for non-blocking async composition (thenApply/thenCompose/exceptionally/orTimeout)
  • Immutability and safe publication (volatile, static initializers)
  • Lock contention and false-sharing performance optimization
  • Virtual threads (Executors.newVirtualThreadPerTaskExecutor()) for I/O-bound scalability
  • ScopedValue over ThreadLocal for immutable cross-task data
  • Cooperative cancellation and InterruptedException discipline
  • Backpressure with bounded queues and CallerRunsPolicy
  • Deadlock avoidance via global lock ordering and tryLock with timeouts
  • ForkJoin/parallel-stream discipline for CPU-bound work
  • Virtual-thread pinning detection (JFR VirtualThreadPinned)
  • Thread naming and UncaughtExceptionHandler observability
  • Fit-for-purpose primitives: LongAdder, CopyOnWriteArrayList, StampedLock, Semaphore, CountDownLatch, Phaser

Scope: The reference is organized by examples (good/bad code patterns) for each core area. Apply recommendations based on applicable examples.

Constraints

Before applying any concurrency changes, ensure the project compiles. If compilation fails, stop immediately — compilation failure is a blocking condition. After applying improvements, run full verification.

  • MANDATORY: Run ./mvnw compile or mvn compile before applying any change
  • SAFETY: If compilation fails, stop immediately — compilation failure is a blocking condition that prevents any further processing
  • VERIFY: Run ./mvnw clean verify or mvn clean verify after applying improvements
  • BEFORE APPLYING: Read the reference for detailed good/bad examples, constraints, and safeguards for each concurrency pattern

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 49 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 78ade00585ef

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125-java-concurrency is a skill published in the GitHub repository jabrena/cursor-rules-examples (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 643 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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