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Recursion And Re Entry Prevention

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Use when a record-triggered Flow re-fires on the same record because its own DML (or a downstream Flow's DML) re-satisfies the entry criteria — causing CPU-limit failures, duplicated side effects, or 'Maximum Trigger Depth Exceeded' errors. Triggers: 'flow infinite loop', 'flow re-firing on same record', 'flow updates field then runs again', 'flow A and flow B keep updating each other', 'maximum trigger depth exceeded record-triggered flow', 'flow recursion limit hit'. NOT for Apex trigger recursion (use apex/recursive-trigger-prevention) or for Loop element design inside a single Flow run (use flow/flow-loop-element-patterns).

From the source SKILL.md

Activate when a record-triggered Flow re-fires on the same record because its own DML — or a chain of DML through other automations on the same object — re-satisfies the Flow's entry criteria. Apex has the static Boolean idiom for breaking recursion; Flow does not. The skill produces entry-criteria refinements, idempotency markers, and diagnostic patterns specific to Flow's re-entry mechanics.

What this skill does

Recursion And Re Entry Prevention is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the automation sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/recursion-and-re-entry-prevention/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when a record-triggered Flow re-fires on the same record because its own DML (or a downstream Flow's DML) re-satisfies the entry criteria — causing CPU-limit failures, duplicated side effects, or 'Maximum Trigger Depth Exceeded' errors. Triggers: 'flow infinite loop', 'flow re-firing on same record', 'flow updates field then runs again', 'flow A and flow B keep updating each other', 'maximum trigger depth exceeded record-triggered flow', 'flow recursion limit hit'.

Who uses this skill

The Recursion And Re Entry Prevention 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).

How to install

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Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/recursion-and-re-entry-prevention
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/recursion-and-re-entry-prevention/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/recursion-and-re-entry-prevention/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/recursion-and-re-entry-prevention/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/recursion-and-re-entry-prevention/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\recursion-and-re-entry-prevention\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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