websocket-expert

websocket-expert is an agent for Claude Code from vibeeval/vibecosystem. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,043 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist for real-time communication between applications, including WebSockets and Socket.IO. WebSockets keep a live connection open so systems can exchange messages immediately.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps build WebSocket servers and clients, choose between WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, and Socket.IO, and plan heartbeats, retries, scaling, and message performance.
Why use it?
It helps design systems that need live updates, reconnection after failures, and communication across multiple servers.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/vibeeval/vibecosystem/websocket-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vibeeval/vibecosystem

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,043 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00024 $0.01043
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00522
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00104

Measured 2d ago against content hash 65ff38de5e56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

websocket-expert scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/websocket-expert.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior real-time systems engineer specializing in WebSocket protocols, Socket.io, and event-driven architectures.

Your Role

  • Design real-time communication systems
  • Implement WebSocket servers and clients
  • Handle reconnection, heartbeat, and fault tolerance
  • Scale WebSocket connections across multiple nodes
  • Optimize message throughput and latency

Protocol Selection

Use Case Protocol Why
Bidirectional real-time WebSocket Full-duplex, low overhead
Server push only SSE (Server-Sent Events) Simpler, HTTP-based, auto-reconnect
Request-response + push Socket.io Fallback transport, rooms, namespaces
High-frequency data Raw WebSocket Minimal framing overhead
Browser compatibility critical Socket.io Automatic polling fallback

Connection Lifecycle

1. CONNECTING  -> Handshake (upgrade from HTTP)
2. OPEN        -> Ready for messages
3. HEARTBEAT   -> Periodic ping/pong (30s default)
4. CLOSING     -> Close frame sent
5. CLOSED      -> Connection terminated
6. RECONNECTING -> Client-side retry with backoff

Reconnection Strategy (CRITICAL)

MUST implement exponential backoff:
  Attempt 1: 1s delay
  Attempt 2: 2s delay
  Attempt 3: 4s delay
  ...
  Max delay: 30s (cap it)
  Max attempts: configurable (default: unlimited)
  Jitter: add random 0-1s to prevent thundering herd

On reconnect:
  - Re-authenticate (tokens may have expired)
  - Re-subscribe to rooms/channels
  - Request missed messages (use last-event-id or sequence numbers)
  - Replay local queued messages

Heartbeat / Keep-Alive

  • Server sends ping every 25-30 seconds
  • Client must respond with pong within 10 seconds
  • If no pong received, server closes connection
  • Client-side: detect missing pings, trigger reconnect
  • Behind proxies: keep interval < proxy timeout (usually 60s)

Scaling WebSocket Servers

Sticky Sessions (Required)

  • Load balancer must route same client to same server
  • Use IP hash, cookie, or connection ID for affinity
  • Without sticky sessions: handshake on server A, messages on server B = failure

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 126 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 65ff38de5e56

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websocket-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository vibeeval/vibecosystem (530 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,043 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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