vercel-composition-patterns

A set of design patterns for building React components that can be reused and adapted. It covers component structure, shared state, flexible APIs, and React 19 features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing component libraries, refactoring components with many true-or-false options, or working with compound components and shared context.
Why use it?
It helps avoid components becoming hard to maintain when they accumulate many switches and special-case options.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daloyjs/daloy/vercel-composition-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add daloyjs/daloy --skill vercel-composition-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daloyjs/daloy

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When invoked 626 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
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Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00313
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00063

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Security

Grade A, and why

vercel-composition-patterns 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.

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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

88% identical to vercel-composition-patterns — 5 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.

website/.agents/skills/vercel-composition-patterns/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.

React Composition Patterns

Composition patterns for building flexible, maintainable React components. Avoid boolean prop proliferation by using compound components, lifting state, and composing internals. These patterns make codebases easier for both humans and AI agents to work with as they scale.

When to Apply

Reference these guidelines when:

  • Refactoring components with many boolean props
  • Building reusable component libraries
  • Designing flexible component APIs
  • Reviewing component architecture
  • Working with compound components or context providers

Rule Categories by Priority

Priority Category Impact Prefix
1 Component Architecture HIGH architecture-
2 State Management MEDIUM state-
3 Implementation Patterns MEDIUM patterns-
4 React 19 APIs MEDIUM react19-

Quick Reference

1. Component Architecture (HIGH)

  • architecture-avoid-boolean-props - Don't add boolean props to customize behavior; use composition
  • architecture-compound-components - Structure complex components with shared context

2. State Management (MEDIUM)

  • state-decouple-implementation - Provider is the only place that knows how state is managed
  • state-context-interface - Define generic interface with state, actions, meta for dependency injection
  • state-lift-state - Move state into provider components for sibling access

3. Implementation Patterns (MEDIUM)

  • patterns-explicit-variants - Create explicit variant components instead of boolean modes
  • patterns-children-over-render-props - Use children for composition instead of renderX props

4. React 19 APIs (MEDIUM)

⚠️ React 19+ only. Skip this section if using React 18 or earlier.

  • react19-no-forwardref - Don't use forwardRef; use use() instead of useContext()

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. 2d ago First seen · 90 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A e38e0eaa6093

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vercel-composition-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository daloyjs/daloy (20 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 626 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to vercel-composition-patterns, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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