Realtime WebSockets

by nimadorostkar

Realtime WebSockets is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by nimadorostkar in Claude-Skills-collection.

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Install Realtime WebSockets

Copy Realtime WebSockets into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection/tree/main/skills/backend/realtime-websockets ~/.claude/skills/realtime-websockets

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/backend/realtime-websockets/SKILL.md in nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/realtime-websockets
Collection: One of 50 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Realtime WebSockets does

Realtime WebSockets helps build live features with WebSockets or SSE. Use it to choose a protocol, handle reconnects and backfill, and scale message delivery across instances.

Realtime WebSockets is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Realtime WebSockets comes from a repository tagged ai, claude, claude-skills and skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Realtime and WebSockets

Purpose

Build realtime features that behave correctly when the connection drops — which it will, constantly, on mobile networks. The hard part is not the socket; it is the state after the reconnect.

When to Use

Building live updates, chat, presence, collaborative editing, or streaming dashboards.
Choosing between WebSockets, SSE, and polling.
Scaling a socket server beyond one instance.
Diagnosing memory growth or dropped messages under load.

Capabilities

Protocol selection and trade-offs.
Connection lifecycle: handshake, auth, heartbeat, graceful close.
Reconnection with resume tokens and gap backfill.
Horizontal scaling with a pub/sub fan-out layer.
Backpressure and slow-consumer handling.

Inputs

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Realtime WebSockets

What else does nimadorostkar publish alongside Realtime WebSockets?
Realtime WebSockets is one of 50 skills that DirSkills catalogs from nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Design, Agent Design and Agent Instructions. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Realtime WebSockets does, and is maintained by nimadorostkar in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the nimadorostkar/Claude-Skills-collection page.
How does Realtime WebSockets compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Realtime WebSockets ranks #2341 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Realtime WebSockets against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.