styling-with-tailwind-shadcn

styling-with-tailwind-shadcn is a skill for Claude Code from dork-labs/dorkos. It costs 49 tokens per session (4,100 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A styling guide for building interfaces with Tailwind CSS version 4 and Shadcn UI, a component library built on accessible interface primitives. It applies the Calm Tech design system's visual tokens and implementation patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing styles, building interface components, or changing the application's theme.
Why use it?
It keeps new components and themes consistent with the project's existing styling setup and avoids using outdated configuration patterns.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Part of the flow plugin — 32 skills, 44 commands, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when writing styles, building interface components, or changing the application's theme.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dork-labs/dorkos/styling-with-tailwind-shadcn
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add dork-labs/dorkos --skill styling-with-tailwind-shadcn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dork-labs/dorkos

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 44 commands, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,100 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. 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 MCP Rug Pull · line 58
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 61
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 62
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 63
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00049 $0.04100
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.02050
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00820
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00410

Measured 9d ago against content hash 22f7b31c37d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

styling-with-tailwind-shadcn 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 9d 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.

.claude/skills/styling-with-tailwind-shadcn/SKILL.md · 393 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 393 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Styling with Tailwind CSS v4 & Shadcn UI

This skill provides implementation patterns for the Calm Tech design system using Tailwind CSS v4 (CSS-first configuration) and shadcn/ui (new-york style) on Radix primitives.

For design thinking (what/why): Use the designing-frontend skill.

All tokens and utilities live in apps/client/src/index.css (there is no tailwind.config.js and no globals.css — this is a Vite SPA, not Next.js).

Current Documentation (Context7)

Tailwind v4 uses CSS-first configuration. For current patterns:

# Check installed version
grep '"tailwindcss"' apps/client/package.json

# Fetch Tailwind v4 docs
mcp__context7__resolve-library-id: { libraryName: "tailwindcss" }
mcp__context7__query-docs: {
  context7CompatibleLibraryID: "[resolved-id]",
  topic: "[specific topic, e.g., '@theme directive', 'dark mode', 'custom utilities']"
}

# Fetch Shadcn docs
mcp__context7__resolve-library-id: { libraryName: "shadcn" }
mcp__context7__query-docs: {
  context7CompatibleLibraryID: "[resolved-id]",
  topic: "[component name, e.g., 'Button', 'Form', 'Dialog']"
}

When to fetch docs:

  • Uncertain about Tailwind v4 CSS-first syntax
  • Adding new shadcn components
  • Implementing theming or dark mode
  • Understanding Radix primitive behavior

When to Use

  • Writing Tailwind classes for components
  • Implementing dark mode theming
  • Using the cn() utility for conditional classes
  • Customizing Shadcn UI components
  • Adding animations with Motion library

Installing Components

This project uses shadcn/ui (new-york style, Radix primitives). Config lives in apps/client/components.json; installed components land in apps/client/src/layers/shared/ui/:

# From apps/client/ — install from the default shadcn registry
npx shadcn@latest add <component>

# Examples
npx shadcn@latest add button
npx shadcn@latest add dialog
npx shadcn@latest add select

One extra registry is configured (@aceternity for effect components):

Read the full file on GitHub · 393 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. 9d ago First seen · 393 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 22f7b31c37d4

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styling-with-tailwind-shadcn is a skill published in the GitHub repository dork-labs/dorkos (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 4,100 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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