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Transaction Isolation

Category: Engineering  ·  Sub-category: databases  ·  Last updated:
Use when reasoning about the I in ACID — the isolation level a database provides between concurrent transactions: the five SQL-standard levels (read uncommitted, read committed, repeatable read, serializable) plus snapshot isolation; the anomalies each level admits (dirty reads, non-repeatable reads, phantom reads, write skew, lost updates); the Berenson et al. 1995 critique that exposed the standard's looseness; the difference between locking-based and MVCC-based isolation; Postgres's Serializable Snapshot Isolation (SSI) as one rigorous implementation; how to choose an isolation level for a workload by enumerating the anomalies the workload cannot tolerate. Do NOT use for the broader ACID frame (use acid-fundamentals), distributed-replica consistency (use cap-theorem-tradeoffs), query performance tuning (use query-optimization), or schema design (use data-modeling).

What this skill does

Transaction Isolation is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the databases sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/transaction-isolation/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when reasoning about the I in ACID — the isolation level a database provides between concurrent transactions: the five SQL-standard levels (read uncommitted, read committed, repeatable read, serializable) plus snapshot isolation; the anomalies each level admits (dirty reads, non-repeatable reads, phantom reads, write skew, lost updates); the Berenson et al. 1995 critique that exposed the standard's looseness; the difference between locking-based and MVCC-based isolation; Postgres's Serializable Snapshot Isolation (SSI) as one rigorous implementation; how to choose an isolation level for a workload by enumerating the anomalies the workload cannot tolerate.

Who uses this skill

The Transaction Isolation Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. 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/transaction-isolation
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/transaction-isolation/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/transaction-isolation/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/transaction-isolation/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

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

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