Real-Time Patterns Skill

When to Activate

• Building live collaboration features (multiple users editing)
• Live notifications, activity feeds, or presence indicators
• Streaming LLM responses to the client
• Real-time dashboards or live metrics
• Chat or messaging features
• Choosing between SSE, WebSocket, and WebRTC for a given use case
• Scaling WebSocket connections across multiple server instances using Redis pub/sub
• Implementing connection state management, offline queuing, and reconnection with backoff

Technology Selection