saga-orchestration
saga orchestration
What it does
- 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.)
- Saga definition with ordered steps, action commands, and compensation commands
- Orchestrator or choreography implementation for your chosen pattern
Requirements & configuration
- Don't ignore partial failures — A step that partially executed still needs compensation
Configuration: STEP_TIMEOUTS
Derived from the skill's own SKILL.md documentation · extracted 2026-07-23
saga-orchestration FAQ
What does the saga-orchestration skill do?
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. Service boundaries and ownership (which service owns which step) Transaction requirements (which steps must be atomic, which can be eventual)
What does saga-orchestration require?
Don't ignore partial failures — A step that partially executed still needs compensation Configuration keys: STEP_TIMEOUTS.
How do I install saga-orchestration?
Run: npx -y skills add https://github.com/wshobson/agents --skill saga-orchestration --agent claude-code — the source lives at github.com/wshobson/agents.
Maintain saga-orchestration?
Let people know it's listed here — add the badge (live metrics, light/dark aware) or a plain link to your README or docs.
[](https://getagentictools.com/skills/wshobson-agents-saga-orchestration?ref=badge) npx agentictools info skills/wshobson-agents-saga-orchestration The second line is the CLI lookup for this page — handy in READMEs and docs.
