background-jobs SKILL.md skillA
background-jobs 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/background-jobs@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/background-jobs/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260720.1dc980e, committed Jul 20, 2026
- Size
- 2,653 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Run asynchronous work through queues with safe retries, poison-message handling, and idempotent jobs. Use when moving work out of the request path or fixing duplicated, stuck, or lost jobs.
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
# Background jobs
A job system's contract is at-least-once execution at some later time.
Design every job for the "at least" and the "later": it will run twice,
and it will run after the world changed.
## Method
1. **Enqueue references, not state.** The payload is IDs plus intent
(`{"type": "send_receipt", "order_id": 123}`); the job reloads current
state at run time. Snapshotting state into payloads acts on stale data
after any delay or retry.
2. **Make every job idempotent.** Natural idempotency where possible
(setting a status, upserting), otherwise an idempotency key checked in
the job's own transaction. The queue will redeliver after crashes
between work and ack; only the job can make that safe.
3. **Retry with backoff, jitter, and a ceiling.** Exponential backoff
starting at seconds, jittered to avoid thundering herds, capped
attempts (5-10). Distinguish retryable failures (timeouts, 429s) from
permanent ones (validation): permanent failures skip retries and go
straight to the dead-letter queue.
4. **Dead-letter with context, and staff the queue.** Failed-forever jobs
land in a DLQ with error, attempt count, and first-failure time. A DLQ
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/background-jobs@sha256:15204ce1319ed83eThe 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_f6t34w257ajhvdvb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/background-jobs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/15204ce1319ed83ee9b4fc9557ee684c134e22c9c74aed80855df19625311c65
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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.
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