Distributed Locking
Ensures exclusive access to shared resources across multiple systems, preventing conflicts and maintaining data integrity – crucial for reliable distributed applications.
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add distributed-locking npx -- -y @trustedskills/distributed-locking
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"distributed-locking": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/distributed-locking"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
This skill provides distributed locking capabilities. It allows multiple processes or threads to coordinate access to shared resources, preventing conflicts and ensuring data integrity. The skill facilitates mutual exclusion, guaranteeing that only one process can hold a lock at any given time.
When to use it
- Resource Management: Preventing concurrent modifications to critical configuration files across multiple servers.
- Database Operations: Ensuring exclusive access to database tables during updates or migrations.
- Order Processing: Guaranteeing that only one instance processes an order at a time, avoiding duplicate entries.
- Cache Invalidation: Coordinating cache invalidation events across distributed caches to maintain data consistency.
Key capabilities
- Distributed locking mechanism
- Mutual exclusion
- Coordination of access to shared resources
Example prompts
- "Acquire a lock named 'order_processor' and release it when done."
- "Check if the lock 'database_migration' is currently held."
- "Attempt to acquire the lock 'cache_invalidation' with a timeout of 5 seconds."
Tips & gotchas
This skill requires a shared storage or coordination service (like Redis or ZooKeeper) for managing locks. Ensure this dependency is properly configured and accessible to all agents utilizing the distributed locking functionality.
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