distributed-transactions SKILL.md skillA
distributed-transactions from d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/distributed-transactions@git:20260906.0766fecPins git:20260906.0766fec in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook
- Path
skills/distributed-transactions/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260906.0766fec, committed Sep 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 12, 2026
- Size
- 7,195 bytes
- Repository stars
- 20
- License
- MIT
Designs and reviews cross-service consistency using Transactional Outbox/Inbox, Saga orchestration, Saga choreography, compensating actions, idempotency, and eventual consistency. Use when the user mentions outbox, inbox, saga, orchestration, choreography, compensation, distributed transaction, dual write, CDC relay, duplicate delivery, or cross-service workflow consistency.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Distributed Transactions Use this skill when one business operation spans services, databases, brokers, or external systems and cannot rely on one local ACID transaction. ## Non-Negotiables - Prefer one local ACID transaction when the data can remain inside one ownership boundary. - Every design must preserve declared business invariants across success, retries, concurrency, partial failure, compensation, and recovery. Never imply that eventual consistency or a Saga provides global ACID semantics. - Never implement a database write followed by direct message publication as an unprotected dual write. - Assume messages can be delayed, duplicated, reordered, and redelivered. - Make externally visible commands and consumers idempotent at the business-effect boundary. - Acknowledging or committing a message is not proof that the business effect occurred exactly once. - Compensation is a new business action, not a database rollback. It can fail and may require human resolution. - Persist workflow state, deadlines, attempts, and decisions durably. Do not keep authoritative Saga state only in process memory. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/distributed-transactions@sha256:dc87af5aa9bf4501The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260906.0766fec, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 12, 2026 and Sep 6, 2026, about one every 12 days.
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| git:20260906.0766fec latest | 2026-09-06 | 0766fec | 7,195 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.d23bb73 | 2026-08-19 | d23bb73 | 6,970 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.4160717 | 2026-08-12 | 4160717 | 7,070 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7195 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
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Source
d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2k7jx2kotz2i7u2b GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/distributed-transactions GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dc87af5aa9bf45014bf2773c07c98f788fad58ea3bceef7955f58bd5842a5662
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