Build Your Kafka Skill

Before learning Kafka—building event-driven architectures for AI agents—you'll own a Kafka skill.

Step 1: Get the Skills Lab

1. Go to github.com/panaversity/claude-code-skills-lab
2. Click the green Code button
3. Select Download ZIP
4. Extract the ZIP file
5. Open the extracted folder in your terminal

cd claude-code-skills-lab
claude

Step 2: Create Your Skill

Copy and paste this prompt:

Using your skill creator skill create a new skill for Apache Kafka. I will use
it to build event-driven architectures from hello world to professional production
systems. Use context7 skill to study official documentation and then build it
so no self assumed knowledge.

Claude will:

1. Fetch official Kafka documentation via Context7
2. Ask you clarifying questions (topics, consumer groups, schema patterns)
3. Create the complete skill with references and templates

Your skill appears at .claude/skills/kafka-events/.

Done

You now own a Kafka skill built from official documentation. The rest of this chapter teaches you what it knows—and how to make it better.

Next: Lesson 1 — From Request-Response to Events