Agent skill

Event Driven Messaging

by rrezartprebreza in rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills

A skill your agent uses when implementing Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or JMS producers and consumers in Spring Boot 4.

MITAuto-check passedBackend & APIs

Install Event Driven Messaging

skills CLI
$ npx skills add rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills --skill event-driven-messaging -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills event-driven-messaging --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/spring-boot-4/event-driven-messaging .claude/skills/event-driven-messaging && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
event-driven-messaging
GitHub stars
301
Token cost
~657 tokens
SKILL.md length
277 words
Files
5
Skills in repo
51
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when implementing Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or JMS producers and consumers in Spring Boot 4.

  • Implementing Kafka
  • SKILL.md covers Dependencies and contracts, Producer rules, Consumer rules and Testing, plus 3 more sections
  • Runs Java scripts from its folder
  • JMS producers and consumers in Spring Boot 4

What it does

Event Driven Messaging is an agent skill from rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills. Use when implementing Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or JMS producers and consumers in Spring Boot 4. Covers modular starters, event contracts, idempotency, retries, dead letters, and outbox delivery.

Its SKILL.md is about 660 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 6 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml` and `examples/good-kafka.yml`).

It sits in Backend & APIs, covering Event-driven systems and Backend development. It works with Spring Boot and Apache Kafka. The repository describes itself as: Production-grade Claude Code and Codex skills for Spring Boot developers. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Implementing Kafka
  • JMS producers and consumers in Spring Boot 4

Example prompts

  • “/event-driven-messaging”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit f0c06a0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships script files (Java), which the agent can run.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • docs.spring.io
    • github.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Event Driven Messaging loads about 657 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 54 tokens; SKILL.md has 277 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~54
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~657

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills at commit f0c06a0, republished under its MIT licence (© rrezartprebreza). 277 words, ~657 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/event-driven-messaging/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 4 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
event-driven-messaging
description
Use when implementing Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or JMS producers and consumers in Spring Boot 4. Covers modular starters, event contracts, idempotency, retries, dead letters, and outbox delivery.

Event-Driven Messaging

Design for at-least-once delivery unless the complete system proves stronger semantics.

Dependencies and contracts

  • Use the dedicated Boot 4 starter and matching technology test starter.
  • Let Boot manage Spring Kafka, AMQP, Pulsar, and Integration versions.
  • Publish immutable envelopes containing event ID, type, timestamp, schema version, and payload.
  • Treat event schemas as public APIs and evolve them compatibly.
  • Do not serialize JPA entities or internal Jackson configuration as contracts.

Producer rules

  • Publish only after the originating state is durable.
  • Use a transactional outbox when a database write and message must agree.
  • Choose a stable aggregate key when per-aggregate ordering matters.
  • Configure acknowledgements, delivery timeout, and serialization failure behavior explicitly.

Consumer rules

  • Make every handler idempotent with a durable marker or naturally idempotent state transition.
  • Commit the state change and idempotency marker in one transaction.
  • Retry only transient failures with bounded exponential backoff.
  • Route permanent or exhausted failures to a dead-letter destination with diagnostic headers.
  • Build replay as an explicit operation with authorization and auditability.

Testing

  • Use the Boot 4 technology test starter and Testcontainers for broker integration.
  • Test duplicate, reordered, delayed, incompatible, and poison events.
  • Verify schema compatibility independently from handler tests.

Examples

  • See examples/good-consumer.java, examples/good-kafka.yml, and examples/bad-consumer.java.

Official sources

Gotchas

  • Agent assumes broker transactions make external side effects exactly once - consumers still need idempotency.
  • Agent retries every exception - classify permanent failures before retrying.
  • Agent publishes directly after a repository call - use an outbox when atomicity matters.
  • Agent uses old Boot 3 transitive dependencies - declare the Boot 4 messaging and test starters.
  • Agent sends framework entities as events - publish a stable versioned contract.

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Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files in skills/spring-boot-4/event-driven-messaging of rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • examples/bad-consumer.java
  • examples/good-consumer.java
  • examples/good-kafka.yml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit f0c06a0

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Categories

Questions about Event Driven Messaging

What does Event Driven Messaging do?

A skill your agent uses when implementing Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or JMS producers and consumers in Spring Boot 4. Event Driven Messaging is an agent skill from rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills. Use when implementing Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or JMS producers and consumers in Spring Boot 4.

When should I use Event Driven Messaging?

Event Driven Messaging fits situations like: implementing Kafka; JMS producers and consumers in Spring Boot 4.

How do I install Event Driven Messaging in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills --skill event-driven-messaging -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/spring-boot-4/event-driven-messaging in rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills) into .claude/skills/event-driven-messaging in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Event Driven Messaging in Codex?

Run `npx skills add rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills --skill event-driven-messaging -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/spring-boot-4/event-driven-messaging in rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills) into .agents/skills/event-driven-messaging in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Event Driven Messaging in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills --skill event-driven-messaging -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/event-driven-messaging, .gemini/skills/event-driven-messaging, .github/skills/event-driven-messaging and .opencode/skills/event-driven-messaging in your project.

What does Event Driven Messaging need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Event Driven Messaging needs Java for the scripts in its folder.

Does Event Driven Messaging access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. As links in the text: docs.spring.io and github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Event Driven Messaging safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Event Driven Messaging use?

Event Driven Messaging is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Event Driven Messaging use?

About 657 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Event Driven Messaging?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Event Driven Messaging: Kafka Configuration (Amplicode/spring-skills, 128 stars), 314 Frameworks Spring Kafka (jabrena/plinth, 447 stars), 323 Frameworks Spring Boot Testing Acceptance Tests (jabrena/plinth, 447 stars) and Spring Boot Event Driven Patterns (giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit, 357 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Event Driven Messaging?

rrezartprebreza (a GitHub user) maintains it in rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills, which has 301 GitHub stars. The repository holds 51 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 21, 2026.

Source: rrezartprebreza/spring-boot-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.