What problem does it solve? Vercel Queues entered public beta in February 2026 and is absent from AI training data, so generated queue code is often wrong. This Skill provides accurate guidance for building asynchronous, event-driven processing on Vercel's durable event streaming platform. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Message Publishing: Send messages to topics with delaySeconds, idempotency keys, custom retention, and headers using the @vercel/queue SDK. - Consumer Patterns: Implement push-mode consumers via handleCallback route handlers with visibility timeouts and retry policies, or poll-mode consumers with PollingQueueClient for external infrastructure. - Architecture Guidance: Choose correctly between Queues, Workflow, and Cron Jobs based on fan-out, orchestration, and scheduling needs. - Use Case: You need to defer order fulfillment emails after checkout. Publish an event to an 'order-events' topic, configure a consumer group route with exponential backoff retries, and monitor consumer lag via the Queues observability tab. ## Quick Start Ask the AI to set up a Vercel Queue consumer that processes messages from an 'order-events' topic with retries and delayed delivery.
