Realtime Websockets

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Realtime Websockets skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Realtime Websockets is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Engineering category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

Category: Engineering · Sub-category: backend · Last updated: 2026-08-05

Build production realtime servers over WebSockets and Server-Sent Events — connection lifecycle, the heartbeat/ping-pong + idle-timeout contract, automatic reconnection with exponential backoff and resume tokens, backpressure and per-connection send queues, horizontal scale-out via a Redis/NATS pub-sub fan-out, presence tracking, and auth on the upgrade handshake. Use when adding live updates (chat, notifications, collaborative cursors, live dashboards), choosing WebSocket vs SSE vs long-poll, debugging dropped or zombie connections, or scaling a socket server past one node. Boundary vs api-design — api-design owns request/response HTTP contracts (REST/GraphQL, idempotency, RFC 9457 errors) and stops at the protocol-upgrade boundary; this skill owns the persistent bidirectional connection after upgrade. Carries higher-level subscription protocols (e.g. graphql-ws) as transport but defers their payload schema to graphql.

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From the source SKILL.md

A practical guide to running persistent realtime connections in production. Stack-agnostic; concrete patterns reference ws/Socket.IO (Node), websockets/Starlette (Python), gorilla/websocket + melody (Go), and Redis/NATS as the fan-out bus.

What this skill does

Realtime Websockets is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the backend sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/realtime-websockets/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when adding live updates (chat, notifications, collaborative cursors, live dashboards), choosing WebSocket vs SSE vs long-poll, debugging dropped or zombie connections, or scaling a socket server past one node. Boundary vs api-design — api-design owns request/response HTTP contracts (REST/GraphQL, idempotency, RFC 9457 errors) and stops at the protocol-upgrade boundary; this skill owns the persistent bidirectional connection after upgrade.

Who uses this skill

The Realtime Websockets Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 176,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/realtime-websockets
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/realtime-websockets/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/realtime-websockets/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/realtime-websockets/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/realtime-websockets/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\realtime-websockets\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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One-click install via the desktop app

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Realtime Websockets Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/realtime-websockets/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.

What does the Realtime Websockets skill do?

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

When should I use the Realtime Websockets skill?

Use Realtime Websockets when your Claude Code task falls under the Engineering category — specifically in the backend area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Realtime Websockets" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/engineering/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Realtime Websockets skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Realtime Websockets is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Engineering category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/kouroshez/coding-os/blob/HEAD/src/core/skills/realtime-websockets/SKILL.md
License: Apache-2.0
Author: kouroshez
Website: https://coding-os.dev

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APA

kouroshez. (2026). Realtime Websockets [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/realtime-websockets/

BibTeX

@misc{realtime-websockets-2026,
  author    = {kouroshez},
  title     = {Realtime Websockets [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/realtime-websockets/}
}

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Grade A · scanned 2026-08-05 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.

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