kafka-dlq-review

kafka-dlq-review is a skill for Claude Code from lensesio/agentic-engineering-for-apache-kafka. It costs 93 tokens per session (2,240 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review tool for dead-letter queues in Kafka. A dead-letter queue is a separate topic where messages that cannot be processed are stored for investigation or later retry.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect dead-letter topics, settings, monitoring, message metadata, retry paths, connector configurations, and application error handling.
Why use it?
It checks whether failed messages can be found, understood, monitored, retried, and connected correctly to Kafka connectors.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the kafka-skills plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect dead-letter topics, settings, monitoring, message metadata, retry paths, connector configurations, and application error handling.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lensesio/agentic-engineering-for-apache-kafka/kafka-dlq-review
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 lensesio/agentic-engineering-for-apache-kafka --skill kafka-dlq-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lensesio/agentic-engineering-for-apache-kafka

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kafka-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,240 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00093 $0.02240
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01120
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00448
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00224

Measured 13d ago against content hash 3a128f87c2fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kafka-dlq-review 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 13d ago.

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/kafka-dlq-review/SKILL.md · 232 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kafka Dead Letter Queue Review

Reviews dead letter queue implementations for completeness and best practices. DLQs are a cross-cutting concern that every Kafka consumer eventually needs. Most teams implement them as an afterthought and forget to monitor them.

Target environment: $ARGUMENTS

Workflow

Copy this checklist and track your progress:

DLQ Review Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Discover DLQ topics
- [ ] Step 2: Check DLQ topic configuration
- [ ] Step 3: Verify DLQ monitoring
- [ ] Step 4: Sample DLQ messages
- [ ] Step 5: Audit connector DLQ configs
- [ ] Step 6: Scan codebase for error handling
- [ ] Step 7: Generate report with maturity assessment
  1. Discover DLQ topics in the cluster
  2. Check DLQ topic configuration (retention, partitions)
  3. Verify DLQ monitoring (consumers, alerting)
  4. Sample DLQ messages for metadata completeness
  5. Audit connector DLQ configs
  6. Scan codebase for error handling patterns
  7. Report findings with maturity assessment

Step 1: Discover DLQ Topics

Use the Lenses MCP list_topics tool and filter for DLQ topics by naming convention:

  • *.dlq
  • *.dead-letter
  • *.error
  • *.errors
  • *.retry
  • *-dlq
  • *-dead-letter

Also check connector configurations for DLQ topic names using list_kafka_connectors.

Expected output: List of DLQ topics discovered by naming convention and connector config.

Validation: If no DLQ topics are found, search the codebase for error topic configuration before concluding that DLQs are not implemented.

Step 2: Check DLQ Topic Configuration

For each discovered DLQ topic, use get_topic to verify:

  • Warning: Retention too short (DLQ messages should be kept longer than source topics for investigation)
  • Warning: Only 1 partition (may bottleneck if DLQ volume spikes)
  • Warning: Replication factor < source topic (DLQ data is often more critical to preserve)
  • Suggestion: Consider compaction for DLQ topics where reprocessing overwrites errors

Read the full file on GitHub · 232 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. 13d ago First seen · 232 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 3a128f87c2fb

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kafka-dlq-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository lensesio/agentic-engineering-for-apache-kafka (57 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 2,240 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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