clerk

clerk is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Benja-Pauls/SerpentStack. It costs 59 tokens per session (893 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A routing guide for Clerk, a service that handles user sign-in and account management. It directs authentication tasks to the relevant setup pattern for web, iOS, Android, organizations, user syncing, or testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up or migrating to Clerk, building custom sign-in flows, supporting native mobile apps, managing organizations, syncing users, or testing authentication.
Why use it?
It helps choose the right Clerk instructions for the project's framework and installed SDK version, including differences between older and current packages.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when setting up or migrating to Clerk, building custom sign-in flows, supporting native mobile apps, managing organizations, syncing users, or testing authentication.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/benja-pauls/serpentstack/clerk
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Benja-Pauls/SerpentStack --skill clerk
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Benja-Pauls/SerpentStack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 893 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00059 $0.00893
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00357
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00089

Measured 1mo ago against content hash acfa6c532bea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clerk 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 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.

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.

.skills/clerk/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clerk Skills Router

Version Detection

Check package.json to determine the Clerk SDK version. This determines which patterns to use:

Package Core 2 (LTS until Jan 2027) Current
@clerk/nextjs v5–v6 v7+
@clerk/react or @clerk/clerk-react v5–v6 v7+
@clerk/expo or @clerk/clerk-expo v1–v2 v3+
@clerk/react-router v1–v2 v3+
@clerk/tanstack-react-start < v0.26.0 v0.26.0+

Default to current if the version is unclear or the project is new. Core 2 packages use @clerk/clerk-react and @clerk/clerk-expo (with clerk- prefix); current packages use @clerk/react and @clerk/expo.

All skills are written for the current SDK. When something differs in Core 2, it's noted inline with > **Core 2 ONLY (skip if current SDK):** callouts. The exception is clerk-custom-ui, which has separate core-2/ and core-3/ directories for custom flow hooks since those APIs are entirely different between versions.


By Task

Adding Clerk to your project → Use clerk-setup

  • Framework detection and quickstart
  • Environment setup, API keys, Keyless flow
  • Migration from other auth providers

Custom sign-in/sign-up UI → Use clerk-custom-ui

  • Custom authentication flows with useSignIn / useSignUp hooks
  • Appearance and styling (themes, colors, layout)
  • <Show> component for conditional rendering

Advanced Next.js patterns → Use clerk-nextjs-patterns

  • Server vs Client auth APIs
  • Middleware strategies
  • Server Actions, caching
  • API route protection

B2B / Organizations → Use clerk-orgs

  • Multi-tenant apps
  • Organization slugs in URLs
  • Roles, permissions, RBAC
  • Member management

Webhooks → Use clerk-webhooks

  • Real-time events
  • Data syncing
  • Notifications & integrations

E2E Testing → Use clerk-testing

  • Playwright/Cypress setup
  • Auth flow testing
  • Test utilities

Swift / native iOS auth → Use clerk-swift

  • Native iOS Swift and SwiftUI projects
  • ClerkKit and ClerkKitUI implementation guidance
  • Source-driven patterns from clerk-ios

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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 First seen · 90 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A acfa6c532bea

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clerk is a skill published in the GitHub repository Benja-Pauls/SerpentStack (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 893 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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