21st-design-sync

A tool-assisted workflow for publishing an existing project's light and dark design variables as a public theme on 21st.dev, a community theme library.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want to publish a project's design tokens as a shareable 21st.dev theme.
Why use it?
It packages the project's existing visual settings for sharing, while checking for the required API key and source CSS file first.

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/skill/21st-design-sync
Any agent
npx skills add 21st-dev/skill --skill 21st-design-sync
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/21st-dev/skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,388 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00129 $0.01388
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00694
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00139

Measured 2d ago against content hash 65cc94c842e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

21st-design-sync 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 21st-design-sync — 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.

skills/21st-design-sync/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

21st Design Sync — publish your project's design as a theme

Take the design a project already ships (its light + dark CSS variables) and publish it to the public 21st.dev theme library so anyone can preview, bookmark, and apply it. Under the hood this is one CLI call: 21st publish-theme <file.css> --name "…".

Pre-flight (always)

  1. Auth needs a real API key. publish-theme is a management endpoint: it accepts a 21st_sk_… key only, not a 21st login session token. Get one at https://21st.dev/mcp (or https://21st.dev/settings/api-keys) and pass it via --api-key 21st_sk_… or the TWENTYFIRST_TOKEN / API_KEY_21ST env var. If the user has no key, point them there — don't try to mint one.
  2. The CLI is the unified @21st-dev/cli (bin 21st). Use npx @21st-dev/cli if it isn't installed.
  3. Publishing is public and outward-facing. A published theme is immediately is_public in the community library (there is no unlisted/private option for themes). Confirm with the user before publishing.

Step 1 — Find the project's design tokens

Locate the file that defines the shadcn/Tailwind theme variables. Check, in order:

  • app/globals.css, src/app/globals.css
  • src/index.css, styles/globals.css, app/styles/globals.css

You're looking for a :root { … } block of CSS custom properties (--background, --foreground, --card, --primary, --secondary, --muted, --accent, --destructive, --border, --input, --ring, the --chart-* / --sidebar-* tokens, --radius) and a matching .dark { … } block. Values may be hsl(...), oklch(...), hex, or raw channels — keep them exactly as the project wrote them.

Tailwind v4 projects usually keep the same :root / .dark blocks plus an @theme inline mapping; you only need the :root and .dark token values, not the @theme mapping.

Step 2 — Assemble a valid theme CSS file

The publish endpoint parses --name: value; pairs out of a :root { … } block and a .dark { … } block, and requires both to be non-empty. So the file you publish must contain both.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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 · 121 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A 65cc94c842e0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

21st-design-sync is a skill published in the GitHub repository 21st-dev/skill (3 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 1,388 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to 21st-design-sync, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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