What is kafka-streams-programming?

A guide to Kafka Streams, a Java and JVM library for processing event data from Apache Kafka inside an application.

Use it to build or debug applications that join, aggregate, window, or query data from Kafka topics.

It helps design stream-processing workflows and diagnose problems such as message lag, rebalancing, state-store failures, and data-decoding errors.

kafka-streams-programming — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by Kilo-Or

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 Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace --skill kafka-streams-programming

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,807 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

high Anti-Refusal · line 61
Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00113	$0.03807
Opus 5	$0.00056	$0.01903
Sonnet 5	$0.00023	$0.00761
Haiku 4.5	$0.00011	$0.00381

Measured 6d ago against content hash e53f3a16d174, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

kafka-streams-programming scanned grade B with 2 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/create-topics.sh, scripts/produce-test-data.sh, scripts/teardown.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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

If user asks for generic stream processing on CC without mentioning KS, briefly offer Flink as alternative. Don't lecture.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

1. `docker compose up -d` and wait for Kafka + SR to be healthy (`docker compose ps`, or curl SR `/subjects`)

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

kafka-streams-programming — 98% identical, 17 lines differ

skills/kafka-streams-programming/SKILL.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kafka Streams — Architect, Build, Debug

JVM-embedded stream processing library with no separate cluster.

⚠️ IMPORTANT: Lazy-Load References Only

Do NOT read all reference files upfront. Read ONLY what you need, when you need it.

User asks "how do I join two topics?" → Read references/topology-patterns.md § Joins Decision Tree only
User asks "build me a Kafka Streams app" → Read references/build-templates.md when writing build files, not before
User asks "my app is crashing" → Read the specific section in references/debugging.md for that symptom
Most questions need 0-2 reference files total, not all 10

Never read multiple files preemptively "just in case"

Always Confirm Target Environment First

Before answering in any mode (Architect, Build, Debug), confirm the target environment if the user hasn't stated it: Apache Kafka | Confluent Platform | Confluent Cloud | WarpStream. Versions/auth shape every recommendation — KIP-1071 support, SASL config, ACL model, transactional-id expiry, CLI tool names all branch on this. Skip the question only if the user already named the environment.

If the user selects WarpStream: Read references/warpstream-optimization.md and apply its overrides on top of the standard config baseline. Key impacts for Kafka Streams:

EOS has a significant throughput cost — exactly_once_v2 enables idempotent producers internally, which reduces throughput on WarpStream due to limited in-flight request concurrency. Default to at_least_once with downstream deduplication unless the user has a strong need for EOS.
Producer and consumer configs must be overridden (larger batches, higher linger, larger fetches). See the "Kafka Streams Specific" section in the shared reference.
fetch.min.bytes is not supported — do not set it.
replication.factor is cosmetic (always 3) — do not tune it.
Zone-aware routing via client.id with ws_az=<az> suffix is critical for cost.
Latency is higher (~250ms p50 produce vs single-digit ms on Kafka) — set expectations with the user.

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 lines

Files

What ships with it

18 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.

6d ago First seen · 225 lines · 113 tokens per session scan B e53f3a16d174

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kafka-streams-programming is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kilo-Org/kilo-marketplace (174 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 3,807 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (strips warnings and disclaimers, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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