Eip Integration Validation

EIP Integration Validation

When to use

Use after producing or receiving an integration design, architecture decision record, sequence diagram, event contract, API/event topology, broker configuration or implementation plan that should be checked against Enterprise Integration Patterns and production operability criteria.

Objective

Review integration designs and implementations against EIP, distributed-systems risks and production operability criteria, and return severity-rated findings with precise remediation.

Procedure

1. Classify each integration interaction as command, event, document, request/reply, stream, batch or query.
2. Map each interaction to EIP categories:

• Integration style.
• Channel.
• Message construction.
• Routing.
• Transformation.
• Endpoint.
• System management.

1. Check correctness:

• Pattern selection fits the problem.
• Message intent is not ambiguous.
• Contracts are versioned and testable.
• Routing, correlation and sequencing are explicit.
• Transformation preserves semantics.
• Endpoint transaction and acknowledgement behaviour is safe.

1. Check resilience:

• Duplicate handling.
• Retry and backoff.
• Dead-letter and invalid-message paths.
• Back-pressure and consumer lag.
• Ordering and replay.
• Disaster recovery.

1. Check governance:

• Ownership of messages, channels and schemas.
• Data minimisation and PII handling.
• Access control and encryption.
• Auditability and retention.
• Operational runbooks.

1. Rate issues by severity: Critical, High, Medium, Low.
2. Provide precise remediation steps, not generic advice.

Required outputs

• Executive summary
• Pattern mapping table
• Findings by severity
• Recommended design changes
• Residual risks
• Test cases required before production

Acceptance criteria

• Every integration flow has a named pattern or a justified exception.
• Every message has intent, schema, owner, version and metadata.
• Every channel has ownership, security, retention and error handling.
• Every consumer has retry, idempotency and acknowledgement behaviour.
• Every production flow has observability and runbook coverage.

Guardrails

• Do not approve designs that lack dead-letter or invalid-message handling for critical flows.
• Do not approve non-idempotent consumers for at-least-once delivery unless duplicate delivery is impossible by construction.
• Do not approve canonical models without ownership and version governance.
• Do not approve designs where routing, transformation or process state is undocumented.

Related skills

• message-based-integration-design
• message-channel-design
• integration-message-construction
• message-routing-design
• message-transformation-design
• message-endpoint-design
• messaging-system-management
• code-review-and-quality

Verification

• [ ] Each flow is mapped to an EIP category or justified exception.
• [ ] Findings are severity-rated with remediation steps.
• [ ] Resilience and governance checks are complete.
• [ ] Residual risks and required tests are stated.
• [ ] Acceptance criteria are assessed explicitly.

References

• EIP Table of Contents
• EIP — Messaging Systems introduction
• EIP — Messaging Channels introduction
• EIP — Message Construction introduction
• EIP — Message Routing introduction
• EIP — Message Transformation introduction
• EIP — Messaging Endpoints introduction
• EIP — System Management introduction

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: mmccalla
• Source: mmccalla/coding-agent-skill-library
• License: Apache-2.0

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.