About stream
The Stream skill guides agents and developers using Stream APIs and SDKs for Chat, Video, Activity Feeds, and Moderation. It routes app work to platform-specific skills and uses the getstream CLI for account operations, API calls, documentation, and agent setup.
Key features
- 01Platform-specific skill routing
- 02getstream CLI guidance
- 03API and documentation lookup
- 04Stream Agents setup guidance
Use cases
- 01Choose a skill for a platform app
- 02Query or update Stream app data
- 03Look up Stream documentation
- 04Configure a Stream Agents app
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ getstream/ agent-skills --skill streamAfter installing, type/streamin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled filesai-backend-contract.mdsendbird-data-migration.md
Details
From the project READMEStream
Stream (getstream.io) provides APIs and SDKs for adding Chat, Video (calls and livestreaming), Activity Feeds, and Moderation to apps. A Stream account has organizations; an organization has apps; an app has one or more API key + secret pairs. All data - users, channels, calls, feeds - is scoped to an app. Client SDKs cover React, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, Unity, and Unreal; server-side SDKs mint user tokens and call the same API. Most client SDKs provide UI kits.
Stream Agents runs voice and text AI agents on Stream's backend. An agent is a
folder of plain files (agents/<name>/agent.yaml, instructions, guardrail,
knowledge, skills, simulations) synced with getstream agents, and sessions
with it are opened through the Agents SDKs (@stream-io/calypso on the web). A
session's conversation is a Chat channel and its voice is a Video call, so the
app around an agent is a Chat and Video app like any other.
The CLI
The getstream CLI is the base tool for everything account- and data-side:
authenticating, onboarding a project (org, app, credentials), calling any API
endpoint, obtaining credentials, minting user tokens, reading the docs, and
installing the other Stream skills. Don't work from memory of it - run
getstream -h and getstream <command> -h and follow what they print.
To install (unless already present):
curl -fsSL https://getstream.io/cli.sh | bash
getstream --version
Alternatively, the user can install the CLI from getstream.io/cli.
The getstream agents commands are only in beta builds, whose version is a
date and a commit (YYYY-MM-DD-<commit>) rather than semver. A stable build
answers them with "agents unavailable". Install the beta over it:
curl -fsSL https://getstream.io/cli/beta/install.sh | bash
Routing
First match wins:
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Work on an app for a specific platform (build, integrate, audit, upgrade): use the platform-specific skill.
- stream-react (React / Next.js)
- stream-react-native (React Native / Expo)
- stream-swift (iOS / SwiftUI / UIKit)
- stream-android (Kotlin / Compose)
- stream-flutter
- stream-unity (Chat and Video)
- stream-unreal (Chat only)
Install a missing skill with
getstream skills <name>, then follow it. For a web app, or a generic app, pick stream-react. A framework beats an OS: "an Unreal chat app for iOS" is stream-unreal.An app built around Stream Agents is platform work too, even when the request only says "agent" or "voice agent". Configure the agent from its folder and
getstream docs agents/<sdk>(javascript,ios,android,flutter), and build the app with the platform skill: its Chat UI kit renders the session's conversation and its Video SDK holds the call. React Native, Unity, and Unreal have no Agents client SDK - tell the user before building. -
Migrate Feeds v2 to v3: use stream-feeds-migration skill.
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Migrate from Sendbird: use the platform-specific skill to migrate the code; to move the data itself (users, channels, message history), read sendbird-data-migration.md.
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Docs / "how does X work" questions: use the
getstream docscommand. In a command substitution like$(getstream docs <id>)don't add2>&1. The path you need is on stdout. -
Query or mutate app data ("list channels", "any flagged messages?", one-off API calls): use the
getstream apicommand. -
Genuinely ambiguous: ask.