Laravel Queues & Jobs

Production-grade queue patterns for Laravel 13 (MySQL + Redis). Contains 20 rules across 6 categories covering driver choice, job design, retry/failure handling, worker scaling, batching/chaining, and testing. Targets the failure modes that pass code review but break under load — silent re-dispatch on retry, models stale on serialisation, missing idempotency on payment jobs, workers leaking memory, and "we forgot ShouldQueue and the request takes 12 seconds in production."

Metadata

• Version: 1.0.0
• Scope: PHP / Laravel 13 + MySQL + Redis (queues), optional Horizon
• Rule Count: 20 rules across 6 categories
• License: MIT

How to Use

When the user asks "design this background job", "audit our queue setup", "why is this job not running", or anything queue-related — work through this skill's rules as a checklist against the relevant files (job classes, config/queue.php, config/horizon.php, supervisor config, the dispatching call sites).

For audit mode, output per-rule verdicts:

• PASS — pattern correctly applied
• FAIL — anti-pattern present (with file:line + fix recommendation)
• N/A — does not apply to this codebase