Kafka questions are easy to answer from stale memory or ZooKeeper-era patterns. Use this skill to ground answers in the official Apache Kafka 4.3 documentation and return the closest authoritative page instead of generic messaging advice.

When to Use

Use this skill when the request is about:

Kafka concepts, terminology, events, topics, partitions, and replication
Producers, consumers, consumer groups, offsets, and delivery semantics
Broker configuration, topic configuration, and cluster operations
KRaft mode, controller quorum, and migration from ZooKeeper
Security: listeners, SSL/TLS, SASL, and ACLs
Kafka Connect connectors, source/sink integration, and connector development
Kafka Streams applications, state stores, windowing, and processing guarantees
Monitoring, hardware sizing, datacenter deployment, and geo-replication
Tiered storage, transactions, and consumer rebalance protocol
Upgrading Kafka, compatibility, and Docker deployment

Do not use this skill for:

kafka-docs

When to Use