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title: "Durable Streams - Reading Streams - Air Market"
description: "You are consuming a stream of data and want it to behave sensibly, whether you read it once or stay subscribed while it updates. This gathers the reading patterns in one place, including what happens…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/reading-streams"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Durable Streams - Reading Streams

Skill by [Durable Streams](/@durable-streams)

# Durable Streams - Reading Streams

Read a live stream and keep reading when the connection wobbles

## What this does

You are consuming a stream of data and want it to behave sensibly, whether you read it once or stay subscribed while it updates. This gathers the reading patterns in one place, including what happens when a live connection fails and how errors get handled. Reach for it when you are writing the code that reads.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Read a stream as text, JSON, or in pieces
- Subscribe to updates as they arrive
- Keep a live read going when the connection drops

## Information

**Durable Streams - Reading Streams at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Durable Streams](/@durable-streams) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 10 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [durable-streams/durable-streams](https://github.com/durable-streams/durable-streams/tree/8d7852494c30a315f618253e9bce1e846b5c5937/packages/client/skills/reading-streams) |
| GitHub stars | 1,666 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 1, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Durable Streams - Reading Streams and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Durable Streams - Reading Streams's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 8d7852494c30a315f618253e9bce1e846b5c5937 |
| Content hash | db1fbe72154012f2e33d02f16471edcce746fee6c2e6339760badfefef304018 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/durable-streams/durable-streams/blob/8d7852494c30a315f618253e9bce1e846b5c5937/packages/client/skills/reading-streams/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Durable Streams - Reading Streams](/security/reading-streams)

## About Durable Streams - Reading Streams

This covers the stream reading patterns for the Durable Streams client: the stream function and its method form, the live modes, the response state machine, and the various ways to pull content out as text, JSON, or a stream of pieces, along with the subscribe forms.

It also covers what makes a long-lived read hold up: automatic fallback from server-sent events to long polling, pausing based on page visibility, automatic decoding of binary events, dynamic headers so an auth token can be refreshed, backoff configuration, and an error handler for recovery.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/stream-response-methods.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Durable Streams - Reading Streams safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Durable Streams - Reading Streams and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 8d7852494c30, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/reading-streams.

### How do I install Durable Streams - Reading Streams?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/reading-streams on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/durable-streams/durable-streams/tree/8d7852494c30a315f618253e9bce1e846b5c5937/packages/client/skills/reading-streams. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/reading-streams>