job-reliability

job-reliability is a skill for Claude Code from sigistry/marketplace. It costs 129 tokens per session (1,054 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for making background workers and message consumers reliable when a queue may deliver the same job more than once. It covers retries, acknowledgements, and dead-letter queues, which hold messages that keep failing.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps review queue-based jobs built with systems such as SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Celery, or BullMQ, including deduplication, retry backoff, acknowledgement timing, and failure handling.
Why use it?
It prevents duplicate work, lost messages, endless retries, and stalled workers when crashes or network problems occur.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the api-contract-keeper plugin — 4 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps review queue-based jobs built with systems such as SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Celery, or BullMQ, including deduplication, retry backoff, acknowledgement timing, and failure handling.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sigistry/marketplace/job-reliability
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 sigistry/marketplace --skill job-reliability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sigistry/marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install api-contract-keeper, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,054 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

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 $0.00129 $0.01054
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00527
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00105

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2eccd0501738, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

job-reliability 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 10d 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.

plugins/api-contract-keeper/skills/job-reliability/SKILL.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Job Reliability

Purpose

Provide a standardized methodology for making background jobs and message consumers reliable under the delivery guarantee that nearly every queue actually offers: at-least-once. That guarantee has two consequences every consumer must handle: duplicates (the same message is delivered more than once) and partial failure (the worker crashes after doing the work but before acknowledging). Code that ignores either will silently double-charge, double-send, lose messages, or stall. This skill catalogs the gaps and the fixes, statically, from the worker source.

The at-least-once contract

  • Duplicates are guaranteed, eventually. A network blip, a redelivery after a visibility timeout, or a consumer restart re-delivers a message. → Make consumers idempotent (see references/dedup-strategies.md).
  • Ack means "I'm done," not "I received it." Ack/commit the offset after the side effect succeeds, never before. Ack-then-work loses the message on a crash.
  • Poison messages exist. A message that always fails must not retry forever, route it to a dead-letter queue after a bounded number of attempts.
  • Retries need backoff + jitter. Immediate infinite retries create a thundering herd against a failing dependency.

The reliability checklist (audit every consumer against this)

Axis The gap The fix
Idempotency Side effect runs again on redelivery (double charge/email) Dedup store keyed by message-id/business key; check before acting
Ack ordering Ack/commit before the work completes Ack after success; nack/retry on failure
Dead-letter Poison message retries forever or is dropped DLQ / dead-set after N attempts; alert on it
Retry policy No backoff, or fixed immediate retry Exponential backoff with jitter, capped attempts
Visibility/redelivery Work outlives the visibility timeout → concurrent redelivery Timeout ≥ processing time, or extend/heartbeat
Atomic "work + ack" Crash between work and ack Idempotency makes the inevitable redelivery safe
Outbox DB commit then publish (dual write), crash loses the event Transactional outbox: write event in the same tx; a relay publishes

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 42 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A 2eccd0501738

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job-reliability is a skill published in the GitHub repository sigistry/marketplace (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 1,054 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

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