Use this skill when transactions fail with UNABLE_TO_LOCK_ROW or when high-concurrency workloads contend on the same rows. The objective is to identify the locking mechanism involved, eliminate unnecessary contention, and add resilient retry logic where contention is unavoidable.
Record Locking And Contention is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/record-locking-and-contention/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when diagnosing or preventing UNABLE_TO_LOCK_ROW errors, record lock contention in Apex or Bulk API loads, FOR UPDATE locking, parent-child lock escalation, and deadlock scenarios. Triggers: 'UNABLE_TO_LOCK_ROW', 'record lock contention', 'FOR UPDATE SOQL', 'deadlock', 'lock timeout'.
The Record Locking And Contention Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/record-locking-and-contention curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/record-locking-and-contention/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/record-locking-and-contention/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/record-locking-and-contention/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/record-locking-and-contention/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\record-locking-and-contention\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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