graceful-shutdown SKILL.md skillA
graceful-shutdown from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/graceful-shutdown@git:20260720.1dc980ePins git:20260720.1dc980e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/backend/graceful-shutdown/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260720.1dc980e, committed Jul 20, 2026
- Size
- 2,518 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Drain servers on SIGTERM so deploys and scale-downs drop zero requests and corrupt no jobs. Use when implementing shutdown handling or chasing errors that spike during every deploy.
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
# Graceful shutdown Every deploy kills your processes. Errors that spike at deploy time are not bad luck; they are an unimplemented shutdown sequence. ## Method 1. **Trap SIGTERM and flip readiness first.** On signal: mark the readiness/health endpoint unready so the load balancer stops sending new work, but keep serving in-flight requests. Liveness stays green; you are draining, not dead. 2. **Wait out the routing lag.** There is a gap between "unready" and "traffic actually stops" (LB health-check interval, k8s endpoint propagation). Sleep a few seconds before closing listeners; closing immediately resets connections the balancer already routed. 3. **Drain in dependency order.** Stop accepting new HTTP connections, finish in-flight requests, stop pulling new jobs from queues, finish or checkpoint running jobs, flush buffers (logs, metrics, producer queues), then close DB pools and connections last; everything above needs them. 4. **Bound the drain with a deadline.** Grace budget minus routing-lag sleep is your drain window (k8s `terminationGracePeriodSeconds` default 30s; set it above your request timeout). At the deadline, …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/graceful-shutdown@sha256:b8643bd628ebcf48The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260720.1dc980e, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 20, 2026.
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_76i66i2h7k63lnhh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/graceful-shutdown GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b8643bd628ebcf489c6917a7d44dfb7172fb8ec8b4ee1fc5ca6a419ee51b50e2
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.