concurrency-patterns

concurrency-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (3,345 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review guide for finding concurrency problems, which occur when multiple threads or asynchronous tasks use shared work at the same time.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps review thread and async code, worker queues, background tasks, databases, caches, and files for synchronization and data-sharing risks.
Why use it?
It highlights bugs that may appear only occasionally, such as race conditions, deadlocks, unsafe shared data, and hidden async bottlenecks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps review thread and async code, worker queues, background tasks, databases, caches, and files for synchronization and data-sharing risks.

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Install with agentmods
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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 mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills --skill concurrency-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,345 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00067 $0.03345
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01673
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00669
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00334

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9b6974aaaf8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

concurrency-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 9d 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/concurrency-patterns/SKILL.md · 401 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 401 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Concurrency Patterns for Code Review

Overview

Concurrency bugs are among the hardest to reproduce: they appear non-deterministically, are invisible in unit tests, and can cause data corruption in production. Use this guide during code review to catch concurrency hazards before they ship.

When to Use

  • Reviewing code that accesses shared state from multiple threads or coroutines
  • Reviewing async/await code for hidden bottlenecks or error-swallowing
  • Evaluating background task queues, worker pools, or message-passing systems
  • Code touching databases, caches, or files from concurrent request handlers

Quick Reference

Pattern Core Idea Primary Red Flag
Race Conditions Multiple threads read-modify-write shared state Unsynchronized count++, check-then-act without lock
Deadlocks Circular wait on two or more locks Nested lock acquisition in inconsistent order
Thread Safety Ensuring shared resources are safe to use concurrently Mutable fields accessed without synchronization
Immutable Data Eliminate races by sharing only read-only values Passing mutable objects across thread boundaries
Producer-Consumer Decouple work creation from execution via queue Unbounded queue, missing backpressure
Actor Model Isolated state, message-only communication Shared mutable state between actors, blocking in actor
Thread Pool Reuse threads instead of creating per-request Thread-per-request at scale, pool exhaustion
Async/Await Pitfalls Common mistakes in async code Fire-and-forget without error handler, blocking in async
Read-Write Locks Multiple readers OR single writer Write-heavy workload using RWLock (more overhead than mutex)
Compare-and-Swap Lock-free atomic update via CAS loop ABA problem, spin loop without backoff

Patterns in Detail

1. Race Conditions

Red Flags:

  • Unsynchronized count++ — read-modify-write is three operations, not one
  • Check-then-act without lock: if (!map.containsKey(k)) { map.put(k, v); }
  • Lazy init without synchronization: if (instance == null) instance = new Foo()
  • Multiple fields updated separately when they should be atomic

Read the full file on GitHub · 401 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 401 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 9b6974aaaf8a

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concurrency-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository mickeyyaya/refactoring-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 3,345 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.