mutex
v0.4.2by releasetools · author: ReleaseTools
Guard a shared resource with a distributed lock, using the mutex CLI
What mutex does, in the publisher's words
Guard a shared resource with a distributed lock, so that one deploy, migration or staging environment has a single holder at a time. The lock lives in a PostgreSQL table that the mutex CLI and the releasetools/mutex GitHub Action also use, so a lock taken here blocks CI too, and one taken by CI blocks the agent.
From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized · Open the README on GitHub
- Skills
- 2
- MCP servers
- 0
- Stars
- 0
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Repo created
- 2026-08-19
- Last pushed
- 2026-10-18
- Publisher type
- Organization
- Version
- 0.4.2
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- mutex
- Guard a shared resource with a distributed lock, using the mutex CLI over its PostgreSQL lock table. Use when the user asks to lock, unlock, guard, serialise or hold something while a step runs, a deploy, a migration, a staging environment, a release, or asks who holds a lock, to extend one, or to…
- naming
- Decide which lock an operation takes and what that lock is called, before any lock exists. Use when the user asks to name a lock, wants the lock id for a resource, asks which lock an operation needs or whether it needs one at all, or asks what something would be called, an issue, a PR, a branch, an…
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Other. Assigned by this directory. Agent Plugins 1.0.0 has no category field, so no manifest declares one.
Keywords
mutex · lock · distributed-lock · concurrency · postgres · ci · deployment
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