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llms.txt

Platform

About Ably

Building with LLMs

llms.txt

Ably CLI

Support tickets

Product guidance

Access tokens

Account overview

Two-factor authentication (2FA)

Organizations

Enterprise customization

Programmatic management with Control API

Team

Single sign-on (SSO)

Connection recovery

Fault tolerance

Edge network

Idempotency

Latency

Architecture overview

Performance

Infrastructure operations

Message ordering

Scalability of the Ably platform

Capabilities

Basic auth

Identified clients

Authentication overview

Token revocation

Ably Tokens

Token auth

JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)

Deprecation policy

Deprecation of protocol version 1 - November 2025

Deprecation of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 - June 2025

Debugging

Error codes

Integrations overview

Ably Queues

Skip integrations

AMQP integration

Inbound webhooks

Ably Kafka Connector

Datadog integration

Outbound streaming overview

Apache Kafka integration

Apache Pulsar integration

AWS SQS integration

AWS Kinesis integration

Azure Functions integration

Google Function integration

Cloudflare Worker integration

IFTTT integration

Generic HTTP webhooks

AWS Lambda integration

Outbound webhooks overview

Zapier integration

Enterprise package

Billing

Free package

Pricing FAQs

Pricing overview

Message counting

Pro package

Standard package

Limits

Data broadcast pricing example

AI support chatbot pricing example

Major livestream event pricing example

Realtime dashboard pricing example

Enterprise support chat pricing example

Pub/Sub

About Pub/Sub

Basic pub-sub

Pub/Sub pricing

Advanced pub-sub

Guide: Handle discontinuity in Pub/Sub

Guide: Building realtime dashboards with Ably

Guide: Data streaming and distribution with Ably

API Reference

REST API Token Request Spec

Channel concepts

Channel states

Deltas

Echo

Encryption

Rewind

Channel options overview

Connections overview

Connection state and recovery

Getting started: Pub/Sub with Flutter

Getting started: Pub/Sub in C# .NET

Getting started: Pub/Sub in Go

Getting started with Pub/Sub

Getting started: Pub/Sub in Java

Getting started: Pub/Sub in JavaScript

Getting started: Pub/Sub in Kotlin

Getting started: Pub/Sub in Laravel

Getting started: Pub/Sub in Node.js

Getting started: Pub/Sub in Next.js

Getting started: Pub/Sub in PHP

Getting started: Pub/Sub in Objective-C

Getting started: Pub/Sub in Python

Getting started: Pub/Sub with React Native

React Hooks

Getting started: Pub/Sub in Ruby

Getting started: Pub/Sub with React

Getting started: Pub/Sub in Swift

Message batching

Message concepts

Message annotations

Updates, deletes and appends

Statistics

Metadata overview

Metadata REST requests

Metadata subscriptions

Presence and occupancy overview

Occupancy

Presence

Protocols

PubNub Adapter

Pusher Adapter

MQTT

SSE

Push notifications overview

Publish and receive push notifications

Configure and activate devices

Configure and activate web browsers

Getting started: Push Notifications in Flutter

Getting started: Push Notifications in Swift

Getting started: Web Push Notifications

Getting started: Push Notifications in Kotlin

Getting started: Push Notifications in React Native

SSE and Raw HTTP Streaming API

Channel Status

Encryption

Channels

Messages

History

Statistics

Presence

Push Notifications - Admin

Authentication

REST API Reference

Constructor

Types

Connection

Encryption

Channel Metadata

Authentication

Messages

Push Notifications - Device Activation and Subscription

Push Notifications - Admin

History

Statistics

Presence

Channels

Constructor

Types

Message Storage

History

Chat

Chat authentication

Connections

About Chat

Integrations

SDK setup

Chat pricing

Process messages with external systems

External storage and processing

Data storage

Extract messages via integrations

Getting started with Chat

Getting started: Chat in JavaScript / TypeScript

Getting started: Chat with JVM (Kotlin/Java)

Getting started: Chat with Android

Getting started: Chat UI Kit for React

Getting started: Chat with React Native

Getting started: Chat with React

Getting started: Chat with Swift (using AsyncSequence)

Guide: Handle discontinuity in Chat

Styling Ably Chat UI React Kit

Moderation

Getting started: Chat with Swift (Callback Approach)

Guide: Building livestream chat at scale with Ably

React UI Kit

React UI Kit setup

Ably Chat UI React Kit

Providers and Hooks

Message history

Rooms

Share media

Message reactions

Messages

Room reactions

Occupancy

Presence

Message replies

Typing indicators

AWS Lambda

Custom Moderation

Bodyguard

Azure Content Safety

Webhook

Hive (Model Only)

Tisane

Hive (Dashboard)

Ably Chat API Reference

ChatClient

Connection

Message

MessageReactions

Occupancy

Presence

Messages

RoomReactions

Rooms

Connection

Room

ChatClient

Typing

Message

MessageReactions

Occupancy

Presence

Typing

Messages

RoomReactions

useChatClient

Rooms

Room

useOccupancy

useChatConnection

usePresence

Providers

usePresenceListener

useRoomReactions

useRoom

useTyping

useMessages

Spaces

Spaces authentication

Member location

Live cursors

Component locking

Spaces pricing

React Hooks

About Spaces

SDK setup

Space

Avatar stack

LiveObjects

Batch operations

LiveCounter

About LiveObjects

Lifecycle events

Inband Objects

LiveObjects pricing

Using the REST API

LiveMap

Object storage

Using the REST SDK

Typing

Operations

Objects

Instance

Synchronization

Getting started: LiveObjects in Swift

Getting started: LiveObjects in Java

Getting started: LiveObjects in JavaScript

PathObject

LiveSync

LiveSync pricing

About LiveSync

MongoDB database connector

Postgres database connector

Quickstart

Frontend data models

AI Transport

Going to production

About AI Transport

Troubleshooting

AI Transport roadmap

API reference

Authentication

Errors

Connections

Codecs

Conversation tree

Concepts

Invocations

Infrastructure

Runs

Steps

Sessions

Agent presence

Cancellation

Branching, edit, and regenerate

Chain of thought

Database hydration

Double texting

Durable execution

History and replay

Concurrent turns

Human-in-the-loop

Interruption

LiveObjects State

Multi-device sessions

Optimistic updates

Push notifications

Reconnection and recovery

Token streaming

Tool calling

Temporal

Vercel AI SDK Core

Vercel AI SDK UI

Set up authentication

Vercel Workflow Development Kit

Configure the AI Transport channel rule

Get started with the Core SDK

Get started with Vercel AI SDK

Get started with Temporal

Codec architecture

Conversation tree

Get started with Vercel Workflow Development Kit

Internals

Transport patterns

Wire protocol

Why AI Transport

HTTP streaming and AI

ClientSession

Codec

AgentSession

Temporal helpers

UIMessageCodec

ChatTransport

vercelRunOutcome

useChatTransport

ChatTransportProvider

useMessageSync

useAblyMessages

Providers

useClientSession

useCreateView

useMessagesWithSeed

useTree

useView

General

Help

Init

Autocomplete

Ably CLI

Interactive

Login

Version

Status

Accounts current

Accounts list

Accounts

Accounts login

Accounts logout

Accounts switch

Apps create

Apps

Apps delete

Apps list

Apps update

Apps switch

Auth issue-ably-token

Auth

Apps current

Auth issue-jwt-token

Auth revoke-token

Bench

Bench publisher

Bench subscriber

Channels delete

Channels batch-publish

Channels append

Channels history

Channels inspect

Channels list

Channels

Channels subscribe

Config path

Channels update

Channels publish

Config

Connections

Connections test

Integrations delete

Config show

Integrations create

Integrations get

Integrations

Logs history

Integrations update

Integrations list

Logs subscribe

Push batch-publish

Logs

Push

Queues create

Queues list

Push publish

Queues

Rooms list

Spaces create

Rooms

Spaces get

Spaces subscribe

Spaces

Spaces list

Queues delete

Stats account

Stats

Stats app

Support ask

Support contact

Support

Apps rules list

Apps rules delete

Apps rules create

Apps rules update

Auth keys create

Auth keys current

Auth keys list

Auth keys get

Auth keys switch

Auth keys revoke

Auth keys update

Channels annotations delete

Channels annotations get

Channels annotations subscribe

Channels occupancy get

Channels occupancy subscribe

Channels annotations publish

Channels presence subscribe

Channels presence enter

Logs channel-lifecycle subscribe

Logs connection-lifecycle subscribe

Logs connection-lifecycle history

Channels presence get

Logs push history

Logs push subscribe

Push channels list-channels

Push channels remove-where

Push channels list

Push channels save

Push channels remove

Push config clear-apns

Push config clear-fcm

Push config set-fcm

Push config set-apns

Push config show

Push devices get

Push devices list

Push devices remove

Push devices remove-where

Push devices save

Rooms messages delete

Rooms messages history

Rooms messages subscribe

Rooms messages send

Rooms messages update

Rooms occupancy subscribe

Rooms occupancy get

Rooms presence enter

Rooms presence get

Rooms reactions subscribe

Rooms presence subscribe

Rooms reactions send

Rooms typing keystroke

Spaces cursors get

Rooms typing subscribe

Spaces cursors set

Spaces cursors subscribe

Spaces locations subscribe

Spaces locations get

Spaces locks subscribe

Spaces locks get

Spaces locations set

Spaces locks acquire

Spaces members enter

Spaces members get

Spaces members subscribe

Spaces occupancy get

Spaces occupancy subscribe

Environment variables

Rooms messages reactions subscribe

Rooms messages reactions remove

Rooms messages reactions send

Pub/Sub FAQs

Push notifications FAQs

## What is Ably Documentation's llms.txt?

Ably Documentation publishes an `/llms.txt` file that provides AI systems with a structured index of its documentation. It follows the [llms.txt specification](https://llmstxt.org), organizing links to guides, API references, and tutorials under section headings so that LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can quickly understand what Ably Documentation offers and where to find details.

Issues

Spec

8

Sections

487

Links

81.4 KB

Size

~20.8k

Tokens

Sections: Platform · Pub/Sub · Chat · Spaces · LiveObjects · LiveSync · and 2 more

## Add Ably Documentation Docs to Your AI Assistant

Select your tool to see how to add Ably Documentation's llms.txt as a documentation source.

Cursor

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1. 1

   Open any chat or composer panel
2. 2

   Type @Docs and select "Add new doc"
3. 3

   Paste the URL: https://docs.ably.com/llms.txt
4. 4

   Wait for the green dot (indexing complete)
5. 5

   Reference @Docs in chat when asking about Ably Documentation

Cursor crawls the URL and indexes all subpages. Add a trailing slash to index child pages too.

## Spec Compliance 22 errors

## Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Ably Documentation's llms.txt file?

Ably Documentation publishes its llms.txt at https://docs.ably.com/llms.txt. This file provides a structured, markdown-formatted index of Ably Documentation's documentation that AI systems can consume to understand the project's APIs, guides, and references.

How do I use Ably Documentation's llms.txt with AI coding assistants?

Copy the llms.txt content and paste it into your AI assistant (Cursor, Windsurf, Claude, ChatGPT) as context. This gives the AI an accurate map of Ably Documentation's documentation so it can provide better code suggestions and answers about Ably Documentation.

What does Ably Documentation's llms.txt contain?

Ably Documentation's llms.txt contains 8 sections and 487 documentation links in 81.4 KB (~20.8k tokens). Key sections include Platform, Pub/Sub, Chat, Spaces, LiveObjects, LiveSync.

How many tokens does Ably Documentation's llms.txt use?

The concise llms.txt index is approximately 20.8k tokens (81.4 KB). Most AI assistants can fit this within their context window. For the full expanded documentation, look for an llms-full.txt variant which embeds all content inline.

What is Ably Documentation?

Ably is a realtime experience infrastructure platform that provides pub/sub messaging, chat, realtime data synchronization, and more.. Ably Documentation's llms.txt file helps AI systems understand this by providing a structured overview of its documentation, making it easier for developers to get accurate AI-assisted help when working with Ably Documentation.

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