tailwind

A set of guidelines for styling web interfaces with Tailwind CSS, a system that applies small reusable style classes directly in markup.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps build and review Tailwind-based pages and components, including responsive layouts, accessible color choices, custom themes, and hover or focus states.
Why use it?
It gives developers consistent rules for layout, spacing, colors, typography, responsive behavior, dark mode, and component states.

Cursor rule

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/chand1012/cursorrules/tailwind
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chand1012/cursorrules
Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 430 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00430
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00215
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00043

Measured yesterday against content hash eb835299b55f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tailwind scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to tailwind — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

frameworks/tailwind.mdc · 79 lines

What it actually says

Tailwind CSS Best Practices

Project Setup

  • Use proper Tailwind configuration
  • Configure theme extension properly
  • Set up proper purge configuration
  • Use proper plugin integration
  • Configure custom spacing and breakpoints
  • Set up proper color palette

Component Styling

  • Use utility classes over custom CSS
  • Group related utilities with @apply when needed
  • Use proper responsive design utilities
  • Implement dark mode properly
  • Use proper state variants
  • Keep component styles consistent

Layout

  • Use Flexbox and Grid utilities effectively
  • Implement proper spacing system
  • Use container queries when needed
  • Implement proper responsive breakpoints
  • Use proper padding and margin utilities
  • Implement proper alignment utilities

Typography

  • Use proper font size utilities
  • Implement proper line height
  • Use proper font weight utilities
  • Configure custom fonts properly
  • Use proper text alignment
  • Implement proper text decoration

Colors

  • Use semantic color naming
  • Implement proper color contrast
  • Use opacity utilities effectively
  • Configure custom colors properly
  • Use proper gradient utilities
  • Implement proper hover states

Components

  • Use shadcn/ui components when available
  • Extend components properly
  • Keep component variants consistent
  • Implement proper animations
  • Use proper transition utilities
  • Keep accessibility in mind

Responsive Design

  • Use mobile-first approach
  • Implement proper breakpoints
  • Use container queries effectively
  • Handle different screen sizes properly
  • Implement proper responsive typography
  • Use proper responsive spacing

Performance

  • Use proper purge configuration
  • Minimize custom CSS
  • Use proper caching strategies
  • Implement proper code splitting
  • Optimize for production
  • Monitor bundle size

Best Practices

  • Follow naming conventions
  • Keep styles organized
  • Use proper documentation
  • Implement proper testing
  • Follow accessibility guidelines
  • Use proper version control
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 79 lines · 430 tokens per session scan A eb835299b55f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tailwind is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository chand1012/cursorrules (13 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 430 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to tailwind, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.