Saga Orchestration
Skill Verified ActiveImplement 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.
To provide a robust and well-documented framework for implementing saga patterns, enabling reliable distributed transactions and cross-aggregate workflows in microservices architectures.
Features
- Saga pattern implementation (orchestration and choreography)
- Automated compensation logic for failures
- Per-step timeout configuration
- Idempotency guards for commands and compensations
- Production monitoring setup with Prometheus metrics
- DLQ recovery patterns for compensation failures
Use Cases
- Coordinating multi-service transactions without distributed locks
- Implementing compensating transactions for partial failures
- Managing long-running business workflows
- Building atomic order fulfillment, approval, or booking processes
- Debugging stuck saga states in production
Non-Goals
- Directly managing participant service implementations
- Replacing message brokers or event stores
- Providing synchronous transaction guarantees
- Handling network-level failures outside of compensated workflows
Workflow
- Define saga steps (action and compensation)
- Configure participant service interactions
- Implement idempotency guards
- Set up per-step timeouts and retry policies
- Monitor saga execution and handle compensation failures
- Implement DLQ recovery for persistent compensation issues
Practices
- Idempotency
- Compensation Design
- Error Handling
- Monitoring
- Asynchronous Communication
Prerequisites
- Python runtime
- Message broker or event bus (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS)
- Saga store (database)
Code Execution
- info:LoggingThe advanced patterns section mentions logging state transitions and using correlation IDs, but a dedicated audit log file mechanism is not explicitly detailed in the provided code snippets.
Installation
First, add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add wshobson/agents/plugin install backend-development@claude-code-workflowsQuality Score
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