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distribution-boundaries from robsonkades/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add robsonkades/agent-skills/distribution-boundaries@git:20261016.c769bd8Pins git:20261016.c769bd8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- robsonkades/agent-skills
- Path
skills/distribution-boundaries/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261016.c769bd8, committed Oct 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 6, 2026
- Size
- 12,615 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- Apache-2.0
Deciding whether a boundary should be a process boundary, and designing it when it must be: what distribution actually costs (latency, serialisation, partial failure, lost atomicity, independent deployment), caller-driven remote granularity, and choosing between synchronous call, messaging and replication. Use when a module is proposed for extraction into a service, when microservices are being adopted without a named driver, when a service call sits inside a transaction, when one request fans…
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What the file says
# Distribution Boundaries ## Purpose Make distribution a decision with a stated driver and a stated price, rather than a default architecture. A process boundary is not a stronger version of a module boundary; it is a different kind of thing, with different failure semantics. Remote calls do not inherit a local transaction or a shared release lifecycle; transport failure can leave their outcome unknown. Local calls can also block or fail after a mutation. The first law here is old and still correct: **do not distribute your objects.** Distribute when a concrete driver justifies it, and design the boundary to be worth its cost. The law warns against transparent remote objects, not against every service boundary. Java snippets are partial architectural illustrations, not a runnable application or a declared Java baseline. Before implementing a client, transaction or cancellation choice, inspect the project's JDK/toolchain, resolved framework/client versions and runtime configuration. Applying this skill does not authorize upgrades or preview features. ## What crossing a process boundary actually costs …
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How to install
mdr add robsonkades/agent-skills/distribution-boundaries@sha256:ce5ccc743136ff23The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.c769bd8, 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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The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 6, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 10 days.
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| git:20261016.c769bd8 latest | 2026-10-16 | c769bd8 | 12,615 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.9ecadfd | 2026-09-27 | 9ecadfd | 12,102 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.832673e | 2026-09-23 | 832673e | 11,456 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.37b054b | 2026-09-11 | 37b054b | 11,032 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.e6ad4bd | 2026-09-06 | e6ad4bd | 10,600 B | A | view |
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Source
robsonkades/agent-skills · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_io6it6owecvrslti GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=robsonkades/agent-skills/distribution-boundaries GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ce5ccc743136ff2363fa74b418017a77be23a79623f469ecc2ef6d25b2e955ad
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