tailwindcss-best-practices

tailwindcss-best-practices is a skill for Claude Code from biggora/claude-plugins-registry. It costs 70 tokens per session (3,387 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Implementation and review guidance for Tailwind CSS version 4, a tool that applies CSS styles through classes and configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when installing or upgrading Tailwind, building or reviewing interfaces, defining themes and utilities, fixing missing styles, or migrating from version 3.
Why use it?
It helps avoid using version 3 instructions in a version 4 project and guides diagnosis of styling, responsive layout, dark-mode, and class-detection problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the project-delivery-orchestrator plugin — 34 skills, 1 command, 5 agents shipped together

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/biggora/claude-plugins-registry/tailwindcss-best-practices
Any agent
npx skills add biggora/claude-plugins-registry --skill tailwindcss-best-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/biggora/claude-plugins-registry

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install project-delivery-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 1 command, 5 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,387 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 5.1 $0.00070 $0.03387
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01693
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00677
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00339

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8b7afc32d151, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tailwindcss-best-practices 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 6d 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.

src/skills/tailwindcss-best-practices/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tailwind CSS v4 Best Practices

Documentation snapshot: Tailwind CSS v4.3.3, verified against the npm latest tag and official documentation on 2026-08-29. Recheck https://tailwindcss.com/docs and the npm tag when the user asks for the latest version.

Tailwind v4 is CSS-first: @theme defines design tokens, @utility registers utilities, and @custom-variant registers variants. Legacy JavaScript configuration is still available through @config, but it is not detected automatically and some v3 options are unsupported.

Working Method

  1. Inspect the project before editing. Identify the installed tailwindcss version, package manager, build integration, main CSS entry point, legacy config or plugins, source roots, and existing design tokens/components. Do not upgrade a project merely because this skill documents a newer version.
  2. Choose the integration that matches the stack. Prefer the framework's official guide when one exists. Use @tailwindcss/vite for Vite-based stacks, @tailwindcss/postcss for PostCSS-based stacks such as Next.js, @tailwindcss/webpack as a webpack loader, or @tailwindcss/cli for a standalone build. Read installation before changing build configuration.
  3. Use the smallest styling mechanism that fits. Prefer an existing utility or component; use an arbitrary value for a true one-off; add an @theme token when a design value is reused; add @utility only for a reusable CSS capability; use custom CSS for third-party overrides or rules that are clearer as CSS.
  4. Keep candidates statically detectable. Map props and states to complete class strings. Do not construct fragments such as `bg-${color}-500`. Read source detection for monorepos, external packages, exclusions, and safelists.
  5. Preserve the existing design system. Reuse its spacing, color, typography, radius, component, and class-merging conventions. Avoid introducing arbitrary values when a matching token already exists.
  6. Verify the observable result. Run the relevant build/type/lint/tests, confirm expected utilities appear in compiled CSS when detection is in question, and inspect responsive, state, dark-mode, focus, and reduced-motion behavior in the rendered UI when applicable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 lines

Files

What ships with it

48 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 200 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 8b7afc32d151

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tailwindcss-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository biggora/claude-plugins-registry (2 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 3,387 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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