retry-safety SKILL.md skillA
retry-safety from escoffier-labs/brigade is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add escoffier-labs/brigade/retry-safety@git:20260712.7784bdaPins git:20260712.7784bda in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- escoffier-labs/brigade
- Path
registry/skills/retry-safety/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260712.7784bda, committed Jul 12, 2026
- Size
- 4,052 bytes
- Repository stars
- 78
- License
- MIT
Use when a diff carries side effects - database writes, migrations, file mutations, network calls, payments, queue messages - to check whether running it twice is safe. Also when reviewing retry logic, crash recovery, or anything a scheduler, queue, or impatient caller might re-run. Silent when the diff touches no side-effecting surface.
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
# retry-safety Fire the same ticket twice and the kitchen must not charge the table twice. Timeouts, crashes, queue redeliveries, and impatient callers re-run operations constantly. The only question is whether the second run finishes the remainder or doubles the damage. **Core principle:** the standard is idempotent read-modify-write at the side-effecting edge. The operation reads current state before writing, so a re-run over work already done completes the remainder and changes nothing else. Anything short of that needs a named reason it is still safe. **Read-only.** This is a review lens. Fixing is a separate engagement. When the diff touches no side-effecting surface, say so in one line and stop. ## The sweep For each side-effecting edge in the diff, simulate two failure shapes: the whole operation retried after a timeout, and a crash halfway followed by a re-run. | Surface | The double-run hazard | |---------|----------------------| | Database writes | duplicate rows, double-applied increments, constraint violations on the second pass | | Migrations | re-running a completed step corrupts or aborts (see the migration section) | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add escoffier-labs/brigade/retry-safety@sha256:68ec3f84ef23367aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260712.7784bda, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_45adlk3uk6xcdkdr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 12, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4052 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
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
escoffier-labs/brigade · 78 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_45adlk3uk6xcdkdr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=escoffier-labs/brigade/retry-safety GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/68ec3f84ef23367abb7a6b4149e8dd2a2ebaf70282a155cf0cc773634aef8e85
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