nextjs-data-fetching

nextjs-data-fetching is a skill for Claude Code from AratKruglik/claude-sdlc. It costs 158 tokens per session (2,299 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to retrieving, caching, and refreshing data in Next.js applications built with the App Router.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps configure static pages, server-rendered pages, incremental refreshes, cached data, tagged invalidation, API routes, and streamed loading states.
Why use it?
It helps choose whether pages should be generated once, refreshed periodically, or rendered with current data on every request.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the nextjs-plugin plugin — 5 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit It helps configure static pages, server-rendered pages, incremental refreshes, cached data, tagged invalidation, API routes, and streamed loading states.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aratkruglik/claude-sdlc/nextjs-data-fetching
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add AratKruglik/claude-sdlc --skill nextjs-data-fetching
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AratKruglik/claude-sdlc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nextjs-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 158 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,299 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 41
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 44
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 47
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 50
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00158 $0.02299
Opus 5.5 $0.00063 $0.00920
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00460
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00230

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 99c987aa47c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nextjs-data-fetching scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| Data changes occasionally (hourly/daily) | **ISR** (revalidate) | `fetch(url, { next: { revalidate: 3600 } })` |
plugins/nextjs-plugin/skills/nextjs-data-fetching/SKILL.md · 258 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 258 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Next.js Data Fetching Patterns

Next.js extends fetch() with caching/revalidation primitives, and offers unstable_cache for non-fetch async work. Plus revalidatePath / revalidateTag to invalidate after mutations. Get this layer right and pages become fast and consistent.

Rendering modes

Per-route, the decision tree:

Need Mode Setup
Data unchanged after build (marketing, docs) SSG (Static) Default behavior; no special options.
Data changes occasionally (hourly/daily) ISR (revalidate) fetch(url, { next: { revalidate: 3600 } })
Data per-request (dashboards, account pages) SSR (Dynamic) fetch(url, { cache: 'no-store' }) or export const dynamic = 'force-dynamic'
Data dynamic but tag-invalidatable Tagged ISR fetch(url, { next: { tags: ['users'] } }) + revalidateTag('users')
Streaming / progressive RSC + Suspense wrap async children in <Suspense fallback={...}>

By default, Next.js prerenders pages at build time (SSG). Adding cache: 'no-store' or reading dynamic APIs (cookies(), headers(), searchParams) opts the page into SSR.

Native fetch extensions

// SSG: cached forever (default)
const res = await fetch('https://api.example.com/data');

// Static + revalidate every 60s (ISR)
const res = await fetch('https://api.example.com/data', { next: { revalidate: 60 } });

// Always fresh (SSR)
const res = await fetch('https://api.example.com/data', { cache: 'no-store' });

// Tag-based: invalidate manually via revalidateTag
const res = await fetch('https://api.example.com/data', { next: { tags: ['users'] } });

fetch() deduplication: identical fetches within a single render are deduped automatically — call freely from multiple components without worry.

unstable_cache for non-fetch async work

Wrap any async function with unstable_cache:

import { unstable_cache } from 'next/cache';
import { db } from '@/lib/db';

export const getUsers = unstable_cache(
  async () => db.users.findMany(),
  ['users'],                        // cache key parts (must be a stable array)
  { revalidate: 60, tags: ['users'] }
);

Read the full file on GitHub · 258 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. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines 99c987aa47c5
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 256 lines · 158 tokens per session scan A 37f0ada6dc00

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nextjs-data-fetching is a skill published in the GitHub repository AratKruglik/claude-sdlc (53 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 158 tokens to every session and 2,299 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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