Agent skill · product strategy · wshobson
saga-orchestration
Implement saga patterns for distributed transactions and cross-aggregate workflows. Use this skill when implementing distributed transactions across microservices where 2PC is unavailable, designing compensating actions for failed order workflows that span inventory, payment, and shipping services, building event-driven saga coordinators for travel booking systems that must roll back hotel, flight, and car rental reservations atomically, or debugging stuck saga states in production where compensation steps never complete.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific patterns and compensation logic for managing distributed transactions that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
About 3k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-05. 38,570 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Saga Orchestration Patterns for managing distributed transactions and long-running business processes without two-phase commit. Inputs and Outputs What you provide: Service boundaries and ownership (which service owns which step) Transaction requirements (which steps must be atomic, which can be eventual) Failure modes for each step (transient vs. permanent, retry policy) SLA requirements per step (informs timeout configuration) Existing event/messaging infrastructure (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.) What this skill produces: Saga definition with ordered steps, action commands, and compensation commands Orchestrator or choreography implementation for your chosen pattern Compensation logic for each participant service (idempotent, always-succeeds) Step timeout configuration with per-step deadlines Monitoring setup: state machine metrics, stuck saga detection, DLQ recovery --- When to Use This Skill Coordinating multi-service transactions without distributed locks Implementing compensating transactions for partial failures Managing long-running business workflows (minutes to hours) Handling failures in distributed systems where atomicity is required Building order fulfillment, approval, or booking processes Replacing fragile two-phase commit with async compensation --- Detailed section: Core Concepts Moved to references/details.md. Detailed section: Templates Moved to references/details.md. …
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