debugging-websocket-issues

debugging-websocket-issues is a skill for Claude Code from AgentWorkforce/relay. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,234 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A troubleshooting guide for WebSocket connections, which allow a client and server to exchange live messages over one connection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose frame-header errors, RSV1 errors, code 1006 disconnects, multiple WebSocketServer conflicts, and upgrade-handler problems.
Why use it?
It explains common invalid-frame and unexpected-disconnection errors caused by conflicting servers, compression mismatches, or raw HTTP sent to a WebSocket.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to diagnose frame-header errors, RSV1 errors, code 1006 disconnects, multiple WebSocketServer conflicts, and upgrade-handler problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentworkforce/relay/debugging-websocket-issues
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add AgentWorkforce/relay --skill debugging-websocket-issues
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/relay

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,234 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00054 $0.01234
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00494
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00123

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 40c5fab7d562, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

debugging-websocket-issues 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/debugging-websocket-issues/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Debugging WebSocket Issues

Overview

WebSocket "invalid frame header" errors often stem from raw HTTP being written to an upgraded socket, not actual frame corruption. The most common cause is multiple WebSocketServer instances conflicting on the same HTTP server.

When to Use

  • Error: Invalid WebSocket frame: RSV1 must be clear
  • Error: WS_ERR_UNEXPECTED_RSV_1
  • Error: Invalid frame header
  • WebSocket connects then immediately disconnects with code 1006
  • Server logs success but client receives garbage data

Quick Reference

Symptom Likely Cause Fix
RSV1 must be clear Multiple WSS on same server OR compression mismatch Use noServer: true mode
Hex starts with 48545450 Raw HTTP on WebSocket (0x48='H') Check for conflicting upgrade handlers
Code 1006, no reason Abnormal closure, often server-side abort Check abortHandshake calls
Works isolated, fails in app Something else writing to socket Audit all upgrade listeners

The Multiple WebSocketServer Bug

Problem

When attaching multiple WebSocketServer instances to the same HTTP server using the server option:

// ❌ BAD - Both servers add upgrade listeners, causing conflicts
const wss1 = new WebSocketServer({ server, path: '/ws' });
const wss2 = new WebSocketServer({ server, path: '/ws/other' });

What happens:

  1. Client connects to /ws
  2. BOTH upgrade handlers fire (Node.js EventEmitter calls all listeners)
  3. wss1 matches path, handles upgrade successfully
  4. wss2 doesn't match, calls abortHandshake(socket, 400)
  5. Raw HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request written to the now-WebSocket socket
  6. Client receives HTTP text as WebSocket frame data
  7. First byte 0x48 ('H') interpreted as: RSV1=1, opcode=8 → invalid frame

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. 1mo ago First seen · 131 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 40c5fab7d562

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debugging-websocket-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository AgentWorkforce/relay (885 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,234 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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