# Background Jobs Queues

> Use when working on queues, workers, scheduled jobs, retries, idempotency, and async workflows. Focus on idempotency, retry policy, dead-letter handling, and operational visibility.

- Skill: `mr-q526/background-jobs-queues` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 4 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add mr-q526/background-jobs-queues`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/mr-q526/background-jobs-queues/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: mr-q526 (https://skillmd.com/u/mr-q526)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/mr-q526/background-jobs-queues

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# Background Jobs Queues

Use this skill when the task involves queues, workers, scheduled jobs, retries, idempotency, and async workflows.

Goal: produce reliable engineering guidance and implementation steps focused on idempotency, retry policy, dead-letter handling, and operational visibility.

## Working model

1. Identify the affected system, data, users, and failure modes.
2. Define invariants, inputs, outputs, ownership, and rollback needs.
3. Prefer small, auditable changes with explicit validation.
4. Call out security, performance, concurrency, and data-loss risks when relevant.
5. Finish with concrete verification steps and residual risks.

## Rules

- Ground recommendations in the current codebase or runtime evidence.
- Prefer explicit contracts, typed boundaries, and defensive validation.
- Do not hide operational concerns behind generic best practices.
- Include negative cases, edge cases, and failure behavior.
- For review tasks, list findings first with file and line references when possible.
- For test or performance tasks, define the workload, success criteria, and measurement method.

## Checklist

- Are assumptions and ownership boundaries explicit?
- Are risky changes reversible or safely deployable?
- Are observability and diagnostics sufficient for production issues?
- Are tests or validation steps targeted to the actual risk?
- Are security and data-integrity concerns addressed?