experience-lwc-runtime-observe

experience-lwc-runtime-observe is a skill for Claude Code from forcedotcom/sf-skills. It costs 142 tokens per session (2,354 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for running a Salesforce Lightning Web Component locally and inspecting the HTML it produces at runtime. Runtime inspection is useful because some component content is hidden inside shadow DOM.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to preview an LWC, inspect its rendered DOM, compare runtime output, or investigate shadow-DOM behavior.
Why use it?
It helps you check what actually rendered and investigate why template content is not visible in the ordinary page structure.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the experience-lwc plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to preview an LWC, inspect its rendered DOM, compare runtime output, or investigate shadow-DOM behavior.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/forcedotcom/sf-skills/experience-lwc-runtime-observe
About the project

forcedotcom/sf-skills is a collection of reusable instructions that help AI coding agents build and work with Salesforce applications and platform features. Developers use it for Agentforce agents, Lightning apps, Flow, Apex, SOQL, Lightning Web Components, and related Salesforce configuration. The catalogue entries are the repository’s skills, plugins, commands, MCP servers, and agents for AI tools that support skills.

forcedotcom/sf-skills · 1,128 stars · on GitHub

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 forcedotcom/sf-skills --skill experience-lwc-runtime-observe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/forcedotcom/sf-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install experience-lwc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,354 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket warn 19 Aug 2026
  • Snyk warn 19 Aug 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 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 Privilege Escalation · line 119
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
  • medium Privilege Escalation · line 124
    Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.
    Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
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 $0.00142 $0.02354
Opus 5.5 $0.00057 $0.00942
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00471
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00235

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b46140d4337b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

experience-lwc-runtime-observe scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/extract-dom.sh, scripts/open-frontdoor.sh, scripts/verify-toolchain.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

`sf org open` internally with stdout redirected into a `chmod 600` tempfile
plugins/builder/experience-lwc/skills/experience-lwc-runtime-observe/SKILL.md · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Previewing LWC Runtime — Local Dev + DOM Inspection

Guides the agent through two sequential jobs that typically run together:

  1. Start a Lightning Preview session with the Salesforce CLI so an LWC app or component renders in a local dev environment.
  2. Navigate to that preview URL and extract the runtime DOM subtree so the agent (or user) can reason about what actually rendered.

Preview is the prerequisite for DOM inspection. Keep them in this order.

When to Use This Skill

  • The user wants to preview an LWC app or component locally before deploying (sf lightning dev app / sf lightning dev component).
  • The user wants the rendered HTML subtree for a specific component at runtime — for a diff, a screenshot pipeline, or to reason about shadow DOM.
  • The user asks why the template content "isn't in the DOM" — almost always a shadow-DOM misunderstanding handled in Step 2.

Prerequisites

  • Salesforce CLI (sf) installed. Check with sf version.
  • @salesforce/plugin-lightning-dev installed. Check with sf plugins.
  • An authenticated org (sf org list shows at least one connected org).
  • For DOM extraction: browser automation available in the agent harness (Playwright, Puppeteer, Chrome DevTools Protocol — whatever is wired up).

Step 1 — Start the Lightning Preview

Ask the user (or infer from the request) whether the scope is app or component.

1a. Verify the toolchain

Ask the user for (or infer from the request) the org alias the preview should target. Run the bundled verification script with that alias and surface any error it emits — do not re-invoke sf version / sf plugins / sf org display in prose. The script checks CLI presence, @salesforce/plugin-lightning-dev installation, and that the specific target alias is authenticated and Connected, and exits nonzero with an actionable message on failure:

"<skill_dir>/scripts/verify-toolchain.sh" <orgAlias>

If it reports that the target alias is not authenticated or not Connected, direct the user to Enable Local Dev and have them run sf org login web --alias <orgAlias>, then re-run the verification script before proceeding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 1mo ago First seen · 246 lines · 142 tokens per session scan B b46140d4337b

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experience-lwc-runtime-observe is a skill published in the GitHub repository forcedotcom/sf-skills (1,128 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 2,354 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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