Guides application developers in designing correct and performant transaction patterns for CockroachDB, covering transaction lifetime, implicit vs explicit transactions, retry handling with exponential backoff, pushing invariants into SQL, selective pessimistic locking, set-based operations, connection pooling, prepared statements, keyset pagination, follower reads, and separating business logic…
Install
npx skills add cockroachdb/claude-plugin --skill designing-application-transactionsnpx skills add cockroachdb/claude-plugin --skill designing-application-transactions -a claude-code -gnpx skills add cockroachdb/claude-plugin --skill designing-application-transactions -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/cockroachdb/claude-plugin.git --path skills/cockroachdb-application-development/designing-application-transactionsgh skill install cockroachdb/claude-plugin designing-application-transactionsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cockroachdb/claude-plugin /tmp/cockroachdb__claude-plugin
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/cockroachdb__claude-plugin/skills/cockroachdb-application-development/designing-application-transactions ~/.claude/skills/designing-application-transactions # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/cockroachdb__claude-plugin/skills/cockroachdb-application-development/designing-application-transactions ~/.agents/skills/designing-application-transactions # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode