Quickstart

In the next five minutes we'll install Stream Agent Skills and run our first invocation. By the end your agent will be answering Stream SDK questions from live documentation, and you'll know how to reach for the right skill from here on.

You'll need:

  • An AI coding agent that reads standard skills locations, for example Claude Code, Cursor and Codex.

Step 1. Install the CLI and skills

The getstream CLI is the Stream Dashboard in your terminal. Your coding agent uses it to configure your app, send API requests, and pull data, and its init command also offers to install the skills.

Install the CLI:

curl -fsSL https://getstream.io/cli.sh | bash

Then initialize your project from your working directory:

getstream init

getstream init authenticates with Stream, lets you pick an app (or create one), writes your project credentials, and then offers to install the skills. Pick your coding agent at the prompt (Claude Code, or the universal .agents location that Cursor, Codex and other tools read) and the skills are linked into your project's skills directory (.claude/skills/ for Claude Code). The skills themselves are markdown instructions: installing them executes nothing. If you skipped the prompt, run getstream skills at any time.

Step 2. Verify your agent picked them up

Open your agent. You should now see the Stream skills available as slash commands:

❯ /stream

/stream                  Stream overview, CLI, and router for Chat, Video, Feed…
/stream-android          Build, integrate, and review Stream Chat, Video, and F…
/stream-builder          Compatibility entrypoint for requests naming stream-bu…
/stream-docs             Compatibility entrypoint for requests naming stream-do…
/stream-feeds-migration  Generate the v2 -> v3 sync mapping for a Stream Activi…
/stream-flutter          Build, integrate, migrate to, and answer how-to questi…
/stream-react            Build, integrate, audit, or upgrade Stream Chat, Video…
/stream-react-native     Builds, integrates, migrates, audits Stream Chat, Vide…
/stream-swift            Build, integrate, migrate to, and answer how-to questi…
/stream-unity            Build, integrate, and answer how-to questions for Stre…
/stream-unreal           Build, integrate, and answer how-to questions for Stre…

Besides the /stream router, that's the web pack (/stream-react), the platform packs (/stream-swift, /stream-android, /stream-react-native, /stream-flutter, /stream-unreal, /stream-unity) and the Feeds migration pack.

Tip:

If they aren't there, restart your agent so it rescans its skills directory.

Step 3. Your first invocation

The easiest skill to try first is /stream-docs, because it doesn't need credentials or any other setup. It looks up live SDK documentation and answers with a citation.

Type this into your agent:

/stream-docs how do I generate a user token in Node.js?

You should get a short answer that includes a code snippet using serverClient.createToken(), with a citation pointing at a getstream.io documentation URL:

❯ /stream-docs how do I generate a user token in Node.js?

Generate the token on your server with the API secret, then hand it to the
client. Never create user tokens in the browser.

  import { StreamChat } from "stream-chat";

  const serverClient = StreamChat.getInstance(apiKey, apiSecret);
  const token = serverClient.createToken("jdoe");

Source › https://getstream.io/docs/platform/authentication/

Click the citation. The code in the answer matches the code on that page: every answer is pulled from the current docs with the source attached, so you can always check it.

Step 4. Let the router pick the skill

When you don't know which skill applies, invoke /stream and let it dispatch. Try:

/stream show me how to scaffold a Next.js chat app

The router reads the prompt, recognises it as a web scaffolding request for /stream-react, the default web pack, and hands off. You'll see /stream-react take over and start asking about your project:

❯ /stream show me how to scaffold a Next.js chat app

stream: classifying request… scaffold a new web app
stream: dispatching to /stream-react

stream-react: I'll scaffold a Next.js chat app. A couple of questions first:
  1. What should I name the project?
  2. Add Video calling alongside Chat? (y/N)

You can cancel at the first prompt if you don't want to actually scaffold. The point is to see the routing work.

What you've done

Tip:

In four steps you've:

  • Installed the getstream CLI and the Stream skills
  • Confirmed your agent picked the skills up
  • Used /stream-docs to pull a live, cited SDK answer
  • Seen /stream route a vague prompt to the right pack

Where to go next