async-python-patterns

Guidance for writing Python programs that can wait for input or network work without blocking other tasks. It covers asyncio and async/await, Python features for coordinating multiple operations at once.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building asynchronous web APIs, scrapers, real-time services, background jobs, queues, microservices, and programs that perform many database, file, or network operations.
Why use it?
It helps choose between straightforward sequential code and concurrent code, avoiding designs that are unnecessarily complex or poorly suited to the workload.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/julien777z/agent-sync-action/async-python-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add julien777z/agent-sync-action --skill async-python-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/julien777z/agent-sync-action

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
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Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00175

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Security

Grade A, and why

async-python-patterns 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.

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Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to async-python-patterns — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/async-python-patterns/SKILL.md · 298 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 298 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Async Python Patterns

Comprehensive guidance for implementing asynchronous Python applications using asyncio, concurrent programming patterns, and async/await for building high-performance, non-blocking systems.

When to Use This Skill

  • Building async web APIs (FastAPI, aiohttp, Sanic)
  • Implementing concurrent I/O operations (database, file, network)
  • Creating web scrapers with concurrent requests
  • Developing real-time applications (WebSocket servers, chat systems)
  • Processing multiple independent tasks simultaneously
  • Building microservices with async communication
  • Optimizing I/O-bound workloads
  • Implementing async background tasks and queues

Sync vs Async Decision Guide

Before adopting async, consider whether it's the right choice for your use case.

Use Case Recommended Approach
Many concurrent network/DB calls asyncio
CPU-bound computation multiprocessing or thread pool
Mixed I/O + CPU Offload CPU work with asyncio.to_thread()
Simple scripts, few connections Sync (simpler, easier to debug)
Web APIs with high concurrency Async frameworks (FastAPI, aiohttp)

Key Rule: Stay fully sync or fully async within a call path. Mixing creates hidden blocking and complexity.

Core Concepts

1. Event Loop

The event loop is the heart of asyncio, managing and scheduling asynchronous tasks.

Key characteristics:

  • Single-threaded cooperative multitasking
  • Schedules coroutines for execution
  • Handles I/O operations without blocking
  • Manages callbacks and futures

2. Coroutines

Functions defined with async def that can be paused and resumed.

Syntax:

async def my_coroutine():
    result = await some_async_operation()
    return result

3. Tasks

Scheduled coroutines that run concurrently on the event loop.

4. Futures

Low-level objects representing eventual results of async operations.

5. Async Context Managers

Resources that support async with for proper cleanup.

Read the full file on GitHub · 298 lines

Files

What ships with it

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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 · 298 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 79d95888d4f0

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async-python-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository julien777z/agent-sync-action (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,752 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to async-python-patterns, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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