cometchat-troubleshooting
Companion skills:
cometchat-coreis the authoritative source for correct init, login, and provider patterns;cometchat-customizationexplains why drift after customization is expected;cometchat-themingcovers the CSS variable cascade for theme-not-applying symptoms.
Purpose
This skill teaches Claude how to diagnose CometChat integration problems systematically. It explains what each diagnostic tool checks, what the known failure modes are and why they happen, and how to distinguish infrastructure problems (env vars, dashboard config, network) from code problems (wrong init sequence, missing CSS import, drift).
1. Use this skill when
The user has a problem with their CometChat integration. Trigger phrases:
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