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dag
5 registry resources · 3 tutorials, 1 skill · roadmap: Orchestration
What this topic covers
DE//AGENT currently lists 5 resources under dag: 3 tutorials, 1 skill, 1 template. Everything below is derived from the live registry — counts, capabilities, verification state and security posture come from the curated records, never from marketing copy.
What you can learn here
Documented learning objectives across these resources:
- Make every task safe to re-run — via Airflow DAG Reviewer
- Choose retries and timeouts deliberately — via Airflow DAG Reviewer
- Predict what a backfill will do before running it — via Airflow DAG Reviewer
- Apply the idempotency test to every task in a DAG — via Review a DAG for idempotency and retry safety
- Justify retry, timeout and concurrency settings per task — via Review a DAG for idempotency and retry safety
- Scaffold a DAG project with tests and a Dockerfile from the template — via Scaffold an idempotent DAG from the template
- Write tasks that are safe to re-run from day one — via Scaffold an idempotent DAG from the template
- Set catchup, retries and sensor modes as deliberate choices — via Scaffold an idempotent DAG from the template
3 more objectives live on the individual resource pages.
Where this fits in the learning roadmap
These resources map to stage: Orchestration (5). Follow the four-phase roadmap to place this topic inside a progression instead of learning it in isolation.
Compare the registry's options
Every entry, its shape and its trust state — sorted by the registry's composite score. This table is the honest version of a marketing comparison: no sponsored placements, no unverifiable claims.
| Resource | Type | Difficulty | Verification | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airflow DAG Reviewer | Skill | intermediate | community flags | 39.5 |
| Review a DAG for idempotency and retry safety | Tutorial | beginner | community | 34.15 |
| Scaffold an idempotent DAG from the template | Tutorial | beginner | community | 34.15 |
| Wire task dependencies and retries that survive failure | Tutorial | intermediate | community | 34.15 |
| Airflow DAG Template | Template | intermediate | community flags | 27.1 |
How scores are computed: source quality score.
Where to start
Highest composite score first:
- Airflow DAG Reviewer score 39.5 — intermediate
- Review a DAG for idempotency and retry safety score 34.15 — beginner
- Scaffold an idempotent DAG from the template score 34.15 — beginner
Scores rank provenance, completeness and trust — read how verification works before adopting anything.
Good fits
Start here if you're new: Review a DAG for idempotency and retry safety, Scaffold an idempotent DAG from the template.
Cautions and limitations
Security-flagged entries: Airflow DAG Reviewer (1 flag), Airflow DAG Template (4 flags). Flags mean the record declares capabilities like credential use or write access — read the security posture on each page before connecting.
Production use cases
- Airflow DAG Reviewer — Checks a DAG for non-idempotent tasks, unsafe retries, missing catchup policy, ambiguous catchup/backfill semantics and unbounded concurrency. details
- Review a DAG for idempotency and retry safety — Walk the Pipeline Reviewer's four-step pass over a DAG: apply the idempotency test to every task, check retry, timeout and concurrency settings, predict backfill behaviour, and pro… details
- Scaffold an idempotent DAG from the template — Generate a new pipeline from the Airflow DAG template and keep its guarantees — an idempotent skeleton with task groups, retries and backoff, SLA, pools, and a reschedule-mode sens… details
- Wire task dependencies and retries that survive failure — Model the pipeline as task groups and give every task deliberate retries with backoff, a timeout and a pool — the skeleton's guarantees, verified the way the DAG reviewer verifies … details
Install and inspect
Real install commands from the registry — read the source before running any of them:
npx de-agent-platform add airflow-dag-reviewerAirflow DAG Reviewer — review first
amp template new de-agent/airflow-dag ./dagsAirflow DAG Template — review first
Further study
Adjacent topics: tutorial (3 shared), Apache Airflow (2 shared), beginner (2 shared), template (2 shared), idempotency (2 shared), retries (2 shared).
Study path: the roadmap places this topic in a progression · the scoring model explains the numbers · the trust rule catalog shows every security check these entries passed through.
Full resource list
| Resource | Type | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Airflow DAG Reviewer | Skill | 39.5 |
| Review a DAG for idempotency and retry safety | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Scaffold an idempotent DAG from the template | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Wire task dependencies and retries that survive failure | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Airflow DAG Template | Template | 27.1 |