402-shadcn

402-shadcn is a cursor rule for Cursor from johnpolacek/vibecode.party.starter. It costs 0 tokens per session (738 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding rule for using shadcn/ui, a collection of reusable interface components such as buttons, cards, and input fields. It says to use these components before building replacements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or extending a web interface. It guides component installation with the shadcn command-line tool and shows standard import and usage patterns.
Why use it?
It keeps the interface consistent and avoids creating custom versions of components the project already supports.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

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/johnpolacek/vibecode.party.starter/402-shadcn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnpolacek/vibecode.party.starter

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 738 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00738
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00369
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00074

Measured 6d ago against content hash ffec379afc65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

402-shadcn 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 6d ago.

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.

.cursor/rules/400-frontend/402-shadcn.mdc · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

shadcn Component Usage Guidelines

Description

Prefer to use shadcn/ui components rather creating your own.

This rule documents our standard patterns for using shadcn/ui components and finding additional components built on top of shadcn.

Installation & Setup

Installing Components

Always use the shadcn CLI to add new components. This ensures proper installation with all dependencies:

# Install a new component
pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add <component-name>

# Examples:
pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add button
pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add alert-dialog

Core Components

Using shadcn/ui

We use shadcn/ui as our primary component library. All basic UI components should come from shadcn/ui first.

// Example of importing and using shadcn components
import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button"
import { Card } from "@/components/ui/card"
import { Input } from "@/components/ui/input"

// Use them in your components
<Card>
  <Input placeholder="Enter text" />
  <Button>Submit</Button>
</Card>

Extended Components

Finding Additional Components

When we need more specialized components that aren't in the core shadcn/ui library:

  1. First check the awesome-shadcn-ui repository for existing solutions
  2. Look for components that:
    • Are well-maintained
    • Follow shadcn/ui patterns
    • Have TypeScript support
    • Are compatible with our tech stack

Popular Extended Components

Some recommended extended components from the ecosystem:

  • For date/time: date-time-picker-shadcn or date-range-picker-for-shadcn
  • For forms: auto-form for zod-based form generation
  • For search: async-select with debounce search
  • For calendars: big-calendar or the basic calendar component

Best Practices

  1. Installation & Updates
    • Always use pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add for installing components
    • Check documentation for the latest installation commands
    • Keep track of installed components in your project documentation

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 116 lines · 738 tokens per session scan A ffec379afc65

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402-shadcn is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository johnpolacek/vibecode.party.starter (27 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 738 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.