devtools-event-client

A typed event client for connecting application code to TanStack Devtools panels. It works across several JavaScript UI frameworks and vanilla JavaScript.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define event payload types, emit or listen for plugin events, namespace events with a plugin ID, and connect devtools integrations.
Why use it?
It gives developers a consistent way to send and receive named events while handling connection changes and production fallbacks.

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/tanstack/devtools/devtools-event-client
Any agent
npx skills add TanStack/devtools --skill devtools-event-client
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TanStack/devtools

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,500 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 $0.00079 $0.02500
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01250
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00500
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00250

Measured yesterday against content hash 4f5b9db9ba03, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devtools-event-client 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 yesterday.

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.

packages/event-bus-client/skills/devtools-event-client/SKILL.md · 291 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 291 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

devtools-event-client

Typed event emitter/listener that connects application code to TanStack Devtools panels. Framework-agnostic. Works in React, Vue, Solid, Preact, and vanilla JS.

Setup

Install the package:

npm i @tanstack/devtools-event-client

The package has two entry points — the root export (the real client in development, a no-op tree-shaken out of production), and the /production subpath (always the real client, for libraries that want devtools events in production):

import { EventClient } from '@tanstack/devtools-event-client'

Constructor Options

Option Type Required Default Description
pluginId string Yes -- Identifies this plugin in the event system. Must be unique across all plugins.
debug boolean No false Enable verbose console logging prefixed with [tanstack-devtools:{pluginId}-plugin].
enabled boolean No true When false, emit() is a no-op and on() returns a no-op cleanup function.
reconnectEveryMs number No 300 Interval in ms between connection retry attempts (max 5 retries).

Core Patterns

1. Define an Event Map and Create a Singleton Client

Define a TypeScript type mapping event suffixes to payload types. Extend EventClient and export a single instance at module level.

import { EventClient } from '@tanstack/devtools-event-client'

type StoreEvents = {
  'state-changed': { storeName: string; state: unknown; timestamp: number }
  'action-dispatched': { storeName: string; action: string; payload: unknown }
  reset: void
}

class StoreInspectorClient extends EventClient<StoreEvents> {
  constructor() {
    super({ pluginId: 'store-inspector' })
  }
}

// Module-level singleton -- one instance per plugin
export const storeInspector = new StoreInspectorClient()

Read the full file on GitHub · 291 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. yesterday First seen · 291 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 4f5b9db9ba03

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devtools-event-client is a skill published in the GitHub repository TanStack/devtools (493 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 2,500 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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