websocket-impl

Guidance for building WebSocket systems, which keep a live two-way connection between a client and server. It covers connection setup, message frames, heartbeats, reconnection, scaling across servers, security, and traffic control.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for chat, collaboration, live updates, online games, multi-server message broadcasting, or choosing between WebSocket, server-sent events, and regular HTTP.
Why use it?
It helps avoid unexplained disconnects, reconnection storms, lost messages, and unsafe real-time connections.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill/websocket-impl
Any agent
npx skills add cass-2003/local-workflow-skill --skill websocket-impl
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cass-2003/local-workflow-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 186 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,021 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 $0.00186 $0.04021
Opus 5 $0.00093 $0.02011
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00804
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00402

Measured 2d ago against content hash b2fb179e8cce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

websocket-impl 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.

skills/backend-api/ours/websocket-impl/SKILL.md · 446 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 446 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WebSocket Implementation Skill — WS 实战

何时使用

  • 实现实时双向通信(聊天 / 协作 / 推送 / 在线游戏)
  • 排查"客户端莫名断线"/ 重连风暴
  • 设计多实例部署的消息广播
  • WebSocket vs SSE vs Long Polling 选型
  • 评估 Socket.IO / 原生 ws / uWebSockets

一、何时选 WS 何时不选

需求 推荐
服务端 → 客户端单向推送 SSE(更简单、自动重连、HTTP/2 多路复用)
双向 / 低延迟 WebSocket
客户端 → 服务端低频提交 HTTP POST(普通 API)
实时性 < 1s 即可 Long polling / SSE
多设备同步 WebSocket / 推送服务(FCM / APNs)
文件 / 大数据流 HTTP/2 streamingWebTransport

WS 是"双向 + 低延迟"的工具,不是默认选项。

二、协议基础

握手(HTTP Upgrade)

GET /ws HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Upgrade: websocket
Connection: Upgrade
Sec-WebSocket-Key: dGhlIHNhbXBsZSBub25jZQ==
Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13
Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: chat.v1
Sec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate

HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols
Upgrade: websocket
Connection: Upgrade
Sec-WebSocket-Accept: s3pPLMBiTxaQ9kYGzzhZRbK+xOo=
Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: chat.v1

Frame 结构

OPCODE 类型:
  0x0  continuation  (分片)
  0x1  text          (UTF-8 字符串)
  0x2  binary        (任意字节)
  0x8  close
  0x9  ping
  0xA  pong
  0xB-0xF  reserved

最大消息体:协议无硬限,实现限(多数 16-64 MB)。

三、Node.js (ws 库) 服务端

import { WebSocketServer } from 'ws'
import http from 'node:http'

const server = http.createServer()
const wss = new WebSocketServer({ noServer: true })

server.on('upgrade', (req, socket, head) => {
  // 自家鉴权(cookie / token)
  if (!authenticate(req)) {
    socket.write('HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized\r\n\r\n')
    socket.destroy()
    return
  }
  wss.handleUpgrade(req, socket, head, (ws) => {
    wss.emit('connection', ws, req)
  })
})

wss.on('connection', (ws, req) => {
  ws.userId = extractUserId(req)
  ws.isAlive = true

  ws.on('pong', () => { ws.isAlive = true })

  ws.on('message', (data, isBinary) => {
    const msg = isBinary ? data : data.toString()
    handleMessage(ws, msg)
  })

  ws.on('close', (code, reason) => {
    cleanup(ws)
  })
})

// 心跳:每 30s 发 ping,对方未 pong 则断开
setInterval(() => {
  for (const ws of wss.clients) {
    if (!ws.isAlive) { ws.terminate(); continue }
    ws.isAlive = false
    ws.ping()
  }
}, 30_000).unref()

server.listen(8080)

Read the full file on GitHub · 446 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 · 446 lines · 186 tokens per session scan A b2fb179e8cce

Subscribe to this mod's changes

websocket-impl is a skill published in the GitHub repository cass-2003/local-workflow-skill (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 186 tokens to every session and 4,021 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-30.

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