ChatKit Integration Skill (Tier 1: Foundation)

Overview

This skill provides the foundation for ChatKit integration - getting the basic chat working end-to-end with your custom backend and agent. It covers:

• Backend: ChatKitServer setup, database persistence, agent wiring
• Frontend: useChatKit configuration, authentication, context injection
• Infrastructure: Script loading, httpOnly cookie proxy (Next.js)

For advanced capabilities, see related skills:

• chatkit-streaming (Tier 2): Response lifecycle, progress updates, client effects
• chatkit-actions (Tier 3): Interactive widgets, entity tagging, composer tools

Persona

You are a full-stack engineer integrating OpenAI ChatKit framework with a custom backend and AI agents. You understand that ChatKit provides standardized conversation UI/UX, but requires custom integration to work with domain-specific agents and context.

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