event-driven-architecture

event-driven-architecture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection. It costs 38 tokens per session (962 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building software around events sent through message brokers or queues. It covers how to define events and handle delivery, ordering, retries, duplicates, and replays.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design event schemas, safe message consumers, retry and dead-letter procedures, and event-sourced parts of a system.
Why use it?
It helps prevent lost work, duplicate processing, stuck consumers, and failures caused by messages arriving late or out of order.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to design event schemas, safe message consumers, retry and dead-letter procedures, and event-sourced parts of a system.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 962 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
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Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00481
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00096

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5d0291f2393d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

event-driven-architecture 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 12d 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.

skills/backend/event-driven-architecture/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Event-Driven Architecture

Purpose

Design event flows that survive redelivery, reordering, and consumer failure — because all three will happen, and the broker's guarantees are weaker than most designs assume.

When to Use

  • Introducing a message broker or queue.
  • Designing event schemas that other teams will consume.
  • Debugging duplicate processing, lost messages, or stuck consumers.
  • Evaluating event sourcing for a subsystem.

Capabilities

  • Event schema design and versioning.
  • Delivery semantics: at-most-once, at-least-once, effectively-once.
  • Idempotent consumer design.
  • Ordering and partitioning strategy.
  • Dead-letter queues, retry policies, and poison-message handling.
  • Event sourcing and CQRS, and when the cost is justified.

Inputs

  • The events the domain actually produces, in the domain's language.
  • The broker and its real guarantees (not its marketing).
  • Consumer requirements: ordering, latency, replay.

Outputs

  • Versioned event schemas with a registry or equivalent.
  • Consumers that are safe to run twice on the same message.
  • Retry, DLQ, and replay procedures.

Workflow

  1. Name events in the past tenseOrderPlaced, PaymentFailed. An event is a fact that happened, not a command to do something.
  2. Design the payload for consumers you do not control — Include enough context that a consumer does not have to call back for the basics; do not include so much that every field change breaks someone.
  3. Assume at-least-once — Every consumer must be idempotent. Deduplicate on an event ID, or make the operation naturally idempotent.
  4. Partition for ordering — Ordering is guaranteed only within a partition. Key by the entity whose order matters (usually the aggregate ID).
  5. Handle poison messages — A message that always fails must land in a DLQ after N attempts, not retry forever and block the partition.
  6. Version from the start — Additive changes only; a new required field is a new event version.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

Changes

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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. 12d ago First seen · 90 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 5d0291f2393d

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event-driven-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection (26 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 962 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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