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background-jobs from nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/background-jobs@git:20260919.a0d4f55Pins git:20260919.a0d4f55 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher
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skills/backend/background-jobs/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- Latest version
- git:20260919.a0d4f55, committed Sep 19, 2026
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- 58
- License
- MIT
Design queued and scheduled work so it survives duplicates, retries, crashes and restarts — job contract, idempotency, transactional enqueue, backoff, dead letters, leases and the ordering guarantees you actually have. Use when moving work off a request path, adding a worker or cron, or debugging a job that ran twice, never ran, ran out of order, or is stuck retrying forever. Not for in-request async concurrency, and not for stream processing topology design.
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What the file says
# Background jobs Every queue gives you at-least-once delivery and no useful ordering. Everything else — exactly once, in order, eventually — is something you build on top, or something you are assuming and will be paged about. Design for the guarantee you have, not the one you want. ## When this fires Work is being moved out of a request path; a queue, worker, scheduler or cron entry is being added or changed; or a job misbehaved — ran twice, silently vanished, processed stale data, or filled a dead-letter queue. It does not fire for concurrency inside a single request, and not for designing a streaming topology. ## Procedure 1. **Check it belongs off the request path.** If the caller needs the result to respond, it is not a job — making it one just moves the wait somewhere the user cannot see. Enqueue work that is slow, retryable, and whose completion the caller can learn about later. 2. **Define the job contract.** Small, serializable payload. Prefer passing an identifier and re-reading current state in the worker over embedding a snapshot — with one exception: when the job must act on the values as they were at enqueue time, embed them and say why. Never …
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How to install
mdr add nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher/background-jobs@sha256:1e07371adc47ef3dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260919.a0d4f55, 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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Source
nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher · 58 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main
API
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