tailwind

A set of Cursor editor rules for using Tailwind CSS, a system of ready-made CSS utility classes for styling web interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for setting up Tailwind and styling React or other web components with utility classes, Flexbox, Grid, breakpoints, and state variants.
Why use it?
It gives consistent guidance for layout, responsive behavior, typography, colors, dark mode, and component styling.

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/toptalentcoder/cursor-awesomerules/tailwind
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/toptalentcoder/Cursor-AwesomeRules
Per session 421 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 421 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00421 $0.00421
Opus 5 $0.00211 $0.00211
Sonnet 5 $0.00084 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00042 $0.00042

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0c232b42e605, 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to tailwind — 0 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.

rules-new/tailwind.mdc · 78 lines

What it actually says


description: Tailwind CSS and UI component best practices for modern web applications globs: **/.css, **/.tsx, **/*.jsx, tailwind.config.js, tailwind.config.ts

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. 2d ago First seen · 78 lines · 421 tokens per session scan A 0c232b42e605

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tailwind is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository toptalentcoder/Cursor-AwesomeRules (6 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 421 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to tailwind, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.