vibeyard: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/add-npm-dependency/SKILL.md

add-npm-dependency is a skill for Claude Code from elirantutia/vibeyard. It costs 100 tokens per session (1,496 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-specific guide for adding npm packages, which are reusable JavaScript libraries, to an Electron application. It explains how to install the latest version and account for the app's main, preload, and renderer builds.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or upgrading an npm dependency, including choosing its build target, updating package files, and following the project's Node and npm conventions.
Why use it?
It helps avoid bundling, CSS, native-module, and lockfile problems caused by installing a dependency the wrong way.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is elirantutia/vibeyard's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on vibeyard itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything vibeyard configures →

About the project

Vibeyard is an IDE and project workspace for managing multiple AI coding-agent sessions, including parallel runs, split panes, task boards, cost tracking, and session resumption. It is for developers who use Claude Code, Codex CLI, or Gemini CLI and need to organize many agent-driven coding tasks. The catalogue add-ons provide commands, skills, and instructions for working with Vibeyard.

elirantutia/vibeyard · 1,388 stars · on GitHub

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to elirantutia/vibeyard. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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When invoked 1,496 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00598
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00150

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Grade A, and why

add-npm-dependency 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.

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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.

.claude/skills/add-npm-dependency/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adding an npm Library

This is an Electron app with three separate build targets (main, preload, renderer) and a few non-obvious bundling rules. Adding a dependency the wrong way silently breaks CSS, native modules, or the renderer bundle. Follow this guide every time.

Golden Rule: install the latest, caret-pinned

Always install the newest published version. Never hand-edit package.json to set or downgrade a version.

npm install <pkg>@latest          # runtime dependency
npm install -D <pkg>@latest       # dev / build-only tool (types, bundlers, test libs)
  • This records a caret range ^x.y.z — the repo convention (every dep in package.json uses ^). Leave it as a caret range.
  • package-lock.json is committed and gets updated by the install. Both package.json and package-lock.json are part of your change — stage both.
  • Use npm only (the lockfile is package-lock.json — not yarn, not pnpm).
  • Node v24 is pinned in .nvmrc; engines.node is >=18. Run nvm use first if needed.

Step 1 — Decide which build target consumes the package

This determines every gotcha that follows.

Target Source dirs How it's built What's allowed
Renderer src/renderer/** Bundled by esbuild into one IIFE (build:renderer) Plain JS/TS deps only. No Node built-ins, no native modules.
Main src/main/**, src/shared/** tsc → CommonJS (dist/main/) Any Node dep, including native modules. Resolved via require at runtime against node_modules — not bundled.
Preload src/preload/**, src/shared/** tsc → CommonJS (dist/preload/) Runs in Node/Electron context; same rules as main.
  • A pure JS/TS library used in the UI (like marked, dompurify, gridstack, @xterm/*) just gets imported in renderer code and esbuild bundles it. Nothing else to do (except CSS — see Step 2).
  • A library that touches the filesystem, spawns processes, or has a .node binary belongs in main/preload only.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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 · 94 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A c8994a57ab38

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add-npm-dependency is a skill published in the GitHub repository elirantutia/vibeyard (1,388 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,496 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.