# rabbitmq-development

A rule set that keeps your coding agent from making the usual RabbitMQ mistakes when it designs exchanges, queues and consumers.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1100 installs · ★ 286
- Author: Mindrally
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Mindrally/skills/tree/HEAD/rabbitmq-development/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-08
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/rabbitmq-development

## What it does

The skill frames how the agent approaches RabbitMQ and AMQP 0-9-1. It maps exchange types to intent: direct for exact routing keys, fanout for broadcast, topic for wildcard patterns, headers for routing on message attributes. Queues get declared durable or transient, and for fault tolerance the agent reaches for quorum queues, declared client-side with `x-queue-type: quorum` rather than set through a policy.

A second block covers throughput and connections. Queues are single-threaded, so on multi-core nodes the agent spreads work across several of them. Channels should be created per thread or operation, not per message, and closed once they are done. Prefetch starts at a moderate value and gets tuned from metrics; manual acknowledgments are the default recommendation so messages survive a crash.

Failures go through dead letter exchanges and retry queues with growing delays. The skill is blunt that requeueing a failing message into the same queue forever is a self-inflicted denial of service. Clustering, TLS, vhost isolation and monitoring metrics each get their own section. One caveat: the source text is cut off at the work queues pattern, so some patterns may not be covered in full.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Mindrally/skills --skill rabbitmq-development -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/rabbitmq-development/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/rabbitmq-development/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Mindrally/skills --skill rabbitmq-development -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/rabbitmq-development/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Mindrally/skills --skill rabbitmq-development -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/rabbitmq-development/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Mindrally/skills rabbitmq-development
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/rabbitmq-development/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Mindrally/skills --skill rabbitmq-development -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Mindrally/skills --path rabbitmq-development
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/rabbitmq-development/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Mindrally/skills --skill rabbitmq-development -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Mindrally/skills/tree/HEAD/rabbitmq-development/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pick an exchange type that matches your routing scheme
- declare a quorum queue for durable, replicated delivery
- tune prefetch and manual acks for a slow consumer
- build retry queues with backoff instead of endless requeue
- wire RabbitMQ metrics into Prometheus and Grafana

## Example prompts
- Set up RabbitMQ exchanges and queues for routing orders by region
- Rewrite this consumer with manual acks and prefetch 50, explain the choice
- Add a dead letter exchange and a retry queue with 1s, 5s, 30s delays

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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  maintainer: Mindrally
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# RabbitMQ Development

You are an expert in RabbitMQ and AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) development. Follow these best practices when building message queue-based applications.

## Core Principles

- RabbitMQ is a message broker that receives messages from publishers and routes them to consumers
- AMQP 0-9-1 is the most commonly used protocol - an application layer protocol transmitting data in binary format
- Design for reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Leave NO todos, placeholders, or missing pieces in the implementation

## Architecture Components

### Exchanges

- **Direct Exchange**: Routes based on exact routing key match - use for unicast routing
- **Fanout Exchange**: Routes to all bound queues regardless of routing key - use for broadcast
- **Topic Exchange**: Routes based on wildcard pattern matching - use for multicast routing
- **Headers Exchange**: Routes based on message header attributes - use for complex routing logic

### Queues

- Queues store messages until consumed
- Can be durable (survives broker restart) or transient (in-memory only)
- Metadata of durable queues is stored on disk
- Metadata of transient queues is stored in memory when possible

### Bindings

- Connect exchanges to queues with routing rules
- Binding keys determine which messages reach which queues
- Multiple bindings can connect the same exchange to multiple queues

## Queue Management Best Practices

### Queue Size

- Keep queue sizes small - large queues put heavy load on RAM usage
- RabbitMQ flushes messages to disk when RAM is constrained, impacting performance
- Monitor queue depth and implement backpressure mechanisms
- Use TTL (Time-To-Live) to automatically remove old messages

### Queue Types

#### Classic Queues

- Traditional RabbitMQ queue implementation
- Good for most use cases
- Supports all features (lazy queues, priorities, etc.)

#### Quorum Queues (Recommended)

- Introduced in RabbitMQ 3.8
- Replicated queue type for high availability and data safety
- Declare with `x-queue-type: quorum`
- Use for queues requiring durability and fault tolerance
- Cannot be set via policy - must be declared by client

### Performance Optimization

- Use transient messages for fastest throughput when durability isn't required
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