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Design and review frontend streaming contracts. Use when handling server-sent events, WebSocket messages, async iterables, stream parsers, reducer state, terminal states, progress timelines, cancellation, retries, or UI updates driven by runtime events.
Design and review frontend streaming contracts. Use when handling server-sent events, WebSocket messages, async iterables, stream parsers, reducer state, terminal states, progress timelines, cancellation, retries, or UI updates driven by runtime events.
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Treat streaming as a contract, not as ad hoc text appended to the UI. Every event should have a stable type, runtime validation, ordering behavior, and a defined effect on state.
Define a discriminated union for runtime events:
type RuntimeEvent =
| { type: 'workflow.started'; runId: string; ts: number }
| { type: 'step.started'; stepId: string; label: string; ts: number }
| { type: 'step.progress'; stepId: string; message?: string; ts: number }
| { type: 'step.completed'; stepId: string; durationMs?: number; ts: number }
| { type: 'step.failed'; stepId: string; errorCode: string; ts: number }
| { type: 'answer.delta'; delta: string; ts: number }
| { type: 'card.emitted'; cardType: string; payload: unknown; ts: number };
Use a parser that accepts unknown, validates the event, and returns either a
known event or an explicit unknown-event fallback.
success, error, cancelled, and timeout
must not return to running.runId, stepId,
messageId, or toolCallId.Test valid event sequences, unknown event types, duplicate events, out-of-order events, stream interruption, cancellation, timeout, and terminal events followed by progress.
name: frontend-streaming-contract description: Design and review frontend streaming contracts. Use when handling server-sent events, WebSocket messages, async iterables, stream parsers, reducer state, terminal states, progress timelines, cancellation, retries, or UI updates driven by runtime events.
---
name: frontend-streaming-contract
description: Design and review frontend streaming contracts. Use when handling server-sent events, WebSocket messages, async iterables, stream parsers, reducer state, terminal states, progress timelines, cancellation, retries, or UI updates driven by runtime events.
---
# Frontend Streaming Contract
## Skill Interface
- Name: frontend-streaming-contract.
- Description: Design and review frontend streaming contracts for server-sent events, WebSocket messages, async iterables, stream parsers, reducer state, terminal states, progress timelines, cancellation, retries, and UI updates driven by runtime events.
- Parameters: Stream transport, runtime event schema, parser behavior, reducer state shape, ordering and duplicate rules, terminal states, cancellation and retry behavior, UI rendering states, and verification scenarios.
- Instructions: Use this skill when frontend state or UI is driven by streamed runtime events. Treat each event as a versioned contract, validate unknown payloads, keep terminal states final, make reducers resilient to future events, and test interruption, ordering, cancellation, and timeout cases.
Treat streaming as a contract, not as ad hoc text appended to the UI. Every
event should have a stable type, runtime validation, ordering behavior, and a
defined effect on state.
## Contract Shape
Define a discriminated union for runtime events:
```ts
type RuntimeEvent =
| { type: 'workflow.started'; runId: string; ts: number }
| { type: 'step.started'; stepId: string; label: string; ts: number }
| { type: 'step.progress'; stepId: string; message?: string; ts: number }
| { type: 'step.completed'; stepId: string; durationMs?: number; ts: number }
| { type: 'step.failed'; stepId: string; errorCode: string; ts: number }
| { type: 'answer.delta'; delta: string; ts: number }
| { type: 'card.emitted'; cardType: string; payload: unknown; ts: number };
```
Use a parser that accepts `unknown`, validates the event, and returns either a
known event or an explicit unknown-event fallback.
## State Rules
- Terminal states are final: `success`, `error`, `cancelled`, and `timeout`
must not return to `running`.
- Progress events must not overwrite completed results.
- Duplicate events should be idempotent when an event id is available.
- Out-of-order events should be ignored, buffered, or reconciled by a documented
rule.
- Reducers must handle unknown event types without crashing.
- Event state should be keyed by stable identifiers such as `runId`, `stepId`,
`messageId`, or `toolCallId`.
## Transport Rules
- For SSE, parse event frames separately from event payloads.
- For WebSockets, validate each message before reducing it.
- For async iterables, define cleanup behavior when the consumer stops.
- Propagate cancellation to the upstream operation when supported.
- Respect backpressure when bridging streams between runtimes.
## UI Rules
- Keep parsing, validation, and event reduction outside presentational
components.
- Show running, partial, completed, failed, cancelled, timeout, and unknown
states explicitly.
- Do not infer machine state from localized text.
- Use fallback rendering for unknown future events.
- Keep timelines stable when events arrive late or duplicate.
## Verification
Test valid event sequences, unknown event types, duplicate events, out-of-order
events, stream interruption, cancellation, timeout, and terminal events followed
by progress.
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