Is the NATS skill free?

Yes. The skill itself is free from kaustavdm/nats-skill. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.

What is the NATS SkillProof Score?

9.2/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 8/10, docs & honesty 5/5.

How do I install NATS?

Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.

Can I use NATS with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?

The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.

NATS

Dense NATS/JetStream reference covering streams, consumers, KV, security, clustering, and a common-mistakes table.

by kaustavdm · kaustavdm/nats-skill

Tested · Works

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Test report

Verdict: Tested · Works
Score: 9.2/10
Tested: Jul 15, 2026
Environment: Claude Code 2.x (agent harness)
Upstream re-checked: Aug 10, 2026 · bf2a255

Asked for a durable JetStream pull-consumer snippet with proper shutdown: baseline used the well-known but wrong nc.Close() and skipped dedup/backoff config, while the skill-guided version caught that exact footgun via its own Common Mistakes table (nc.Drain(), js.Publish() with Nats-Msg-Id, Nak() on failure) -- a concrete production-correctness fix, not just restating docs.

Scored on four weighted criteria — install, triggering, output vs. baseline, docs. How scoring works

Installs cleanly 5/5
Triggers reliably 5/5
Output vs. baseline 8/10
Docs & honesty 5/5

What NATS does

A self-contained reference for building on NATS: Core NATS pub/sub, request/reply, and queue groups; JetStream streams, pull/push consumers, KV and object stores; connection/reconnect options; NKey/JWT security and subject permissions; server config, clustering, leaf nodes, and Go embedding. Three deep-dive reference files (jetstream.md, security.md, server-deployment.md) live alongside SKILL.md and cover full struct fields, decision trees, and Docker/Kubernetes/Helm configs. Triggers on any NATS/JetStream development, deployment, or messaging-protocol microservice question.

How to install NATS

git clone https://github.com/kaustavdm/nats-skill
cd nats-skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r skills/nats ~/.claude/skills/nats

Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ (per-project). Restart Claude Code after installing.

Commands — how to trigger NATS

/nats Dense NATS/JetStream reference covering streams, consumers, KV, security, clustering, and a common-mistakes table.

It also activates on plain-language prompts like these:

write a durable JetStream pull consumer with proper shutdown handling
set up NKey security and subject permissions for my NATS cluster
how do I configure a NATS KV store with leaf node clustering

Frequently asked questions

Is the NATS skill free?: Yes. The skill itself is free from kaustavdm/nats-skill. SkillProof publishes the install command and an independent test verdict at no cost.
Does NATS work with Claude Code?: We tested it with Claude Code 2.x (agent harness) on Jul 15, 2026. Verdict: Tested · Works. Asked for a durable JetStream pull-consumer snippet with proper shutdown: baseline used the well-known but wrong nc.Close() and skipped dedup/backoff config, while the skill-guided version caught that exact footgun via its own Common Mistakes table (nc.Drain(), js.Publish() with Nats-Msg-Id, Nak() on failure) -- a concrete production-correctness fix, not just restating docs.
What is the NATS SkillProof Score?: 9.2/10 — installs cleanly 5/5, triggers reliably 5/5, output vs. baseline 8/10, docs & honesty 5/5.
How do I install NATS?: Copy the install command from this page, run it in your terminal, and restart Claude Code. Skills live in ~/.claude/skills/ (global) or .claude/skills/ inside a project.
Can I use NATS with Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Codex or other AI tools?: The SKILL.md format is native to Claude (Claude Code, Desktop, claude.ai). The instructions inside adapt to other assistants: Cursor rules, GitHub Copilot instructions, Windsurf rules, Custom GPTs, AGENTS.md for OpenAI Codex, and GEMINI.md for Google Gemini CLI — our conversion guides cover each, and the free converter on the tools page does the wrapping for you.