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Expert knowledge for contributing to Litestream, a standalone disaster recovery tool for SQLite. Provides architectural understanding, code patterns, critical rules, and debugging procedures for WAL monitoring, LTX replication format, storage backend implementation, multi-level compaction, and SQLite page management. Use when working with Litestream source code, writing storage backends, debugging replication issues, implementing compaction logic, or handling SQLite WAL operations.

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Updated 2/11/2026
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Installation and usage

Expert knowledge for contributing to Litestream, a standalone disaster recovery tool for SQLite. Provides architectural understanding, code patterns, critical rules, and debugging procedures for WAL monitoring, LTX replication format, storage backend implementation, multi-level compaction, and SQLite page management. Use when working with Litestream source code, writing storage backends, debugging replication issues, implementing compaction logic, or handling SQLite WAL operations.

Installation
$ install --globalskills.sh
Usage

Once installed, you can use this skill by running the following command in your terminal:

skills use litestream