Overview
saga-orchestration is an open-source workflow skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by wshobson. Its author describes it as: “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 actio…”. The project has 39k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add wshobson/agents`.
What saga-orchestration does
Patterns for managing distributed transactions and long-running business processes without two-phase commit.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for saga-orchestration is organised into these sections:
- Inputs and Outputs
- When to Use This Skill
- Detailed section: Core Concepts
- Detailed section: Templates
- Best Practices
- Do's
- Don'ts
- Troubleshooting
- Saga stuck in COMPENSATING state
- Duplicate saga executions on restart
- Choreography saga losing events
- Timeout firing before a slow-but-valid step completes
Installation
Add saga-orchestration to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add wshobson/agentsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
- Codex — declared in the repository topics
- Cursor — declared in the repository topics
- OpenCode — declared in the repository topics
- GitHub Copilot — declared in the repository topics
- Antigravity — declared in the repository topics
License
saga-orchestration is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in wshobson/agents, an established project with 39,066 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, Antigravity
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
- Its repository gained 669 GitHub stars over the last 24 days
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does saga-orchestration 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.
- How do I install saga-orchestration?
- Run /plugin marketplace add wshobson/agents in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/wshobson/agents before installing.
- Is saga-orchestration free to use?
- Yes. saga-orchestration is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does saga-orchestration work with?
- saga-orchestration lists Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, and Antigravity — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does saga-orchestration come from?
- saga-orchestration ships inside wshobson/agents, a repository that contains 54 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 39,066 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.