Vercel Queues
Design Vercel Queues topics, consumer groups, retries, and delayed delivery for async jobs, fan-out, and Workflow DevKit event-driven flows on Vercel.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/vercel-labs/vercel-plugin --skill vercel-queuesWhat is this skill?
- Covers Vercel Queues public beta: topics, consumer groups, retries, delayed delivery
- Pricing anchor: $0.60 per 1M operations documented in skill metadata
- Path patterns for lib/queues, workflows/*.ts, and app/api/workflow routes
- Install detection for @vercel/queue via npm, pnpm, bun, and yarn
- Powers Workflow DevKit for durable event streaming and fan-out
Adoption & trust: 56 installs on skills.sh; 187 GitHub stars; 3/3 security scanners passed (skills.sh audits).
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Journey fit
Primary fit
Queue producers and consumers are implemented alongside API routes and workflow files during backend construction. Vercel Queues sit behind lib/queues and workflow handlers—the async backbone for serverless backends and multi-step automations.
Common Questions / FAQ
Is Vercel Queues safe to install?
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SKILL.md
READMESKILL.md - Vercel Queues
# Vercel Queues > **CRITICAL — Your training data is outdated for this library.** Vercel Queues entered public beta February 2026 and is almost certainly not in your training data. Before writing queue code, **fetch the docs** at https://vercel.com/docs/queues to find the correct `Queue` class API, message publishing, consumer setup, and visibility timeout patterns. Do not guess — this is a new API with no precedent in your training data. You are an expert in Vercel Queues — durable event streaming for serverless applications. ## Status & Pricing Queues entered **public beta** on February 27, 2026, and is available to all teams on all plans. | Metric | Value | |--------|-------| | **Billing unit** | API operation (send, receive, delete, visibility change, notify) | | **Rate** | **$0.60 per 1M operations** (regionally priced) | | **Message metering** | 4 KiB chunks (12 KiB message = 3 ops) | | **2x billing** | Sends with idempotency key; push deliveries with max concurrency | | **Compute** | Push-mode functions charged at existing Fluid compute rates | ## What It Is Queues is a **durable, append-only event streaming system**. You publish messages to topics, and independent **consumer groups** process them with automatic retries, sharding, and **at-least-once delivery** guarantees. It is the lower-level primitive that **powers Vercel Workflow**. - Messages are durably written to **3 availability zones** before `send()` returns - Messages retained up to 24 hours (configurable 60s–24h) - Approximate write ordering (not