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Google Cloud Live Multimodal Streaming Architect

Design and deploy Google Cloud solutions for live, bidirectional multimodal streams.

55/ 100
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Useful, but reliability, evidence or controls still have material gaps.

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Codex · Claude Code
Stars
★ 21k
Last updated
12d ago
License
Apache-2.0
google-cloudmultimodal-streamingmulti-agent-systemsreal-time-safety-monitoring
+2terraformcloud-architecture

What does this skill do, and when should you use it?

This skill guides agents through designing a tailored, multi-product Google Cloud solution for live, bidirectional, multimodal streaming workloads. It follows four phases: requirements discovery, solution design, implementation planning, and validation. It analyzes modalities, latency, safety monitoring, knowledge access, device constraints, and network limitations, then produces a technical decomposition, product mapping, Mermaid architecture diagram, deployment plan, and validation procedures. It is intended for real-time streaming agentic systems, not simple text chat applications or workloads without real-time streaming requirements.

Asks about audio, video, or text inputs, target latency, safety monitoring, knowledge bases, client devices, and network constraints; identifies workload components and cross-cloud, hybrid, or on-premises integrations; generates and iterates on a confirmed technical decomposition; uses specified Google Cloud documentation and repository references to map products, create a Mermaid architecture diagram, and draft recommendations; writes the design to solution-architecture-guide.md; generates infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, deployment instructions, validation scripts or commands, and checks for connectivity, routing, and security policies.

Good fit
  • A cloud architect designing a Google Cloud system for live technical guidance over audio or video streams.
  • An engineering team that needs real-time detection of hazards, operational risks, or incorrect steps in a video stream.
  • A solution designer building a multi-agent system that accesses product documentation, knowledge bases, or schematic repositories for grounded guidance.
  • A Google Cloud team planning deployment components involving Cloud Run, WebSockets, Gemini Live API, or ADK streaming tools.

How do you install this skill?

Before you use it
  • Do not apply generated Terraform, deployment commands, or IAM configuration directly to production; review permissions, regions, data flows, cost, quotas, and rollback first.
  • Live audio/video may contain biometric or otherwise sensitive data; add data classification, retention/deletion, encryption-key, access-audit, and cross-border-transfer controls before deployment.
  • Confirm that required Google documentation, APIs, models, and control-plane services are reachable from mainland China; otherwise prepare reachable mirrors, alternatives, or offline inputs.
  • The skill retrieves multiple external resources without pinning versions; record the versions used and verify product names, APIs, and configurations before implementation.
Before you start
Your agent needs
  • Shell / CLI
  • Network access
  • Local filesystem
Install first
  • Terraform
  • curl
  • gcloud CLI

In an Agent Skills-compatible client, run: npx skills add google/skills. During installation, select skills/cloud/google-cloud-solution-agentic-ai-bidirectional-streaming. The README does not specify a client-specific installation directory or version requirement.

Generic route: install into Claude Code manually (macOS / Linux)
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git "$tmp"
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R "$tmp/skills/cloud/google-cloud-solution-agentic-ai-bidirectional-streaming" ~/.claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"

Generated from the source repository and skill path; it copies only this skill's folder. If the author's install steps above differ, follow those first. To scope it to one project, replace ~/.claude/skills with that project's .claude/skills.

How do you use this skill?

Try saying

Once installed, send your agent any of these to trigger it:

  • Design a Google Cloud solution for a multi-agent system that provides bidirectional voice guidance and real-time safety monitoring from a video stream, including deployment and validation plans.

Place the skill folder where the client can discover Agent Skills, then use a prompt such as: "Design a Google Cloud solution for a multi-agent system that provides bidirectional voice guidance and real-time safety monitoring from a video stream, including deployment and validation plans." The workflow begins with requirements discovery and requests confirmation during decomposition, architecture, and implementation planning.

What are this skill's strengths and limitations?

Pros
  • Covers requirements discovery, architecture design, IaC planning, and validation in one workflow.
  • Targets live bidirectional multimodal streaming and multi-agent cloud solutions rather than generic chat.
  • Requires grounding design guidance in specified Google Cloud documentation and implementation resources.
  • Includes review, iteration, and final validation checkpoints.
Limitations
  • Depends on access to specified Google Cloud documentation and implementation resources; offline use is not documented.
  • Implementation requires projects, billing associations, APIs, and IAM permissions, but the provided text does not list exact permissions.
  • The SKILL.md provides no test suite, fixed product inventory, or guarantee of deployment success.
  • It generates Terraform, scripts, and commands, but the concrete implementation depends on the user's requirements and retrieved resources.

How does this skill compare with similar options?

Side by side with related skills; every score comes from the same FSRS standard.

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How did FollowSkills review this skill?

FollowSkills review · FSRS-2.0
Use with care
55/ 100 5-point scale 2.8 / 5
The upstream repository has new commits since this review. The score still applies to the reviewed revision shown and may not cover the latest changes.
1Trust18 / 25 · 3.6/5

The workflow requires user confirmation after decomposition, architecture, and implementation planning, and it calls for least privilege, TLS, OIDC, Cloud Armor, and human oversight. Points are deducted because retention and deletion of sensitive audio/video, isolation, key management, concrete IAM scopes, and rollback procedures are not specified.

2Reliability8 / 20 · 2.0/5

The four-phase workflow is internally coherent and includes dry runs, connectivity checks, security checks, and verification scripts. Static files contain no executable tests, pinned dependencies, abnormal-input handling, or detailed diagnostic failure paths, so the score is limited and deductions apply.

3Adaptability10 / 15 · 3.3/5

The name, target scenario, discovery questions, and non-fit case of simple text chat are reasonably clear, covering modalities, latency, and network constraints. Chinese-language support is not stated, and the core documentation, platform, and services depend on Google-hosted overseas reachability without a mainland-China fallback.

4Convention9 / 15 · 3.0/5

The material has clear phases, supporting references, product mapping, design guidance, and an output template; the repository provides Apache-2.0 licensing, contribution guidance, and an active-development note. The skill lacks its own installation/dependency notes, compatibility versions, changelog, FAQ, known limitations, and explicit maintenance owner.

5Effectiveness6 / 15 · 2.0/5

It can produce requirements analysis, product mapping, Mermaid architecture, IaC planning, deployment guidance, and validation reporting for the stated real-time multimodal use case, with a defined output template. Points are deducted because outputs depend on external retrieval and model generation, with no verified representative output, runnable IaC, or sufficiently developed alternative comparison.

6Verifiability4 / 10 · 2.0/5

The files cite specific Google Cloud, ADK, codelab, and template sources and require validation steps, providing some auditability. There is no committed test suite, CI coverage, execution log, or third-party reproduction evidence, so conclusions remain largely unexecuted and static.

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Reviewed Jul 20, 2026 Reviewed revision 513a7a51e85f Review evidence[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Evidence confidence:Low — Mostly static review, author material or a limited demo; useful for discovery, not high-risk decisions.

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FAQ

Is this suitable for a simple text chat application?
No. Its stated scope is live, bidirectional, multimodal streaming workloads; simple text chat applications are explicitly excluded.
Does it require Google Cloud billing and permissions?
The implementation phase requires documenting project and billing associations, required Google Cloud APIs, and IAM permissions. Exact permissions depend on the proposed solution.
Does it deploy the resources automatically?
The source says it generates IaC, deployment instructions, and validation scripts or commands, and assists with validation. It does not establish that the skill automatically performs deployment on the user's behalf.
Are usage costs specified?
The supplied source does not state costs for the skill or for the Google Cloud resources it may propose.

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