21st-registry

A command-line workflow for publishing and managing React components, CSS themes, and templates on 21st.dev, a public design-asset registry. It also handles existing components, drafts, profiles, and published items.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for searching the registry, publishing or editing components, managing themes and templates, and unpublishing or deleting items.
Why use it?
It helps developers find existing work and manage their published design assets from the terminal.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/21st-dev/claude-code-plugin/21st-registry
Any agent
npx skills add 21st-dev/claude-code-plugin --skill 21st-registry
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/21st-dev/claude-code-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 259 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,015 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 $0.00259 $0.04015
Opus 5 $0.00130 $0.02008
Sonnet 5 $0.00052 $0.00803
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00402

Measured 2d ago against content hash b1dd7ca00383, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

21st-registry 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

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/21st/skills/21st-registry/SKILL.md · 354 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 354 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Publish & manage on the 21st registry

Publish components, themes and templates to 21st.dev, and manage what you've already published, all through the unified 21st CLI (@21st-dev/cli).

Pre-flight (always)

  1. Authenticate before publishing. Component publishing, inventory, checkout, metadata editing, and unpublishing accept either a 21st login session or a 21st_sk_… API key. Theme/template commands still require a real API key from https://21st.dev/settings/api-keys, passed via --api-key, TWENTYFIRST_TOKEN, or API_KEY_21ST.
  2. The CLI is the unified @21st-dev/cli (bin 21st). Don't reinvent — use it.
  3. Search before publishing (21st search "<query>") so you don't add a duplicate to the library.

Find existing components and drafts

Start here when the user asks to continue or edit old component work:

21st components
21st components --status draft --scope personal --json
21st open component:123
21st open draft:<uuid> --no-open

21st components drains both independently paginated collections by default, so an unfiltered run returns every accessible personal or Team component and every owned draft. Narrow it with --status all|draft|published|private or --scope all|personal|team:<uuid>. Keep the returned stable component:<id> or draft:<uuid> reference; do not substitute a slug.

21st open draft:<uuid> resumes an editable Studio draft. 21st open component:<id> creates or resumes a server-owned CLI Review revision from the retained published component code and demos. The live component stays unchanged until that revision is published. Fresh covers are required, while optional video generation runs best-effort in the background. --no-open creates or resumes the workspace and prints its URL without launching a browser.

Use a local file when the source is already changed:

21st publish ./Component.tsx \
  --component component:123 \
  --description "What changed"

Never replace the stable ref with a same-slug guess. Only the original component author can check out code. A Team manager can still edit or unpublish a teammate's component metadata by stable ref.

Read the full file on GitHub · 354 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. 2d ago First seen · 354 lines · 259 tokens per session scan A b1dd7ca00383

Subscribe to this mod's changes

21st-registry is a skill published in the GitHub repository 21st-dev/claude-code-plugin (7 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 259 tokens to every session and 4,015 once invoked, about $0.0013 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.

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