shadcn-ui

shadcn-ui is a skill for Claude Code from giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit. It costs 74 tokens per session (2,861 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to shadcn/ui, a collection of accessible React interface components whose source code is copied into your project for customization. It uses Radix UI for behavior and Tailwind CSS for styling.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install and customize components, create validated forms with React Hook Form and Zod, and configure themes, dark mode, and charts.
Why use it?
It helps build consistent forms, dialogs, tables, themes, and other interface parts without starting each component from scratch.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the developer-kit-typescript plugin — 25 skills, 3 commands, 13 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to install and customize components, create validated forms with React Hook Form and Zod, and configure themes, dark mode, and charts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit/shadcn-ui
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 giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit --skill shadcn-ui
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install developer-kit-typescript, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 3 commands, 13 agents.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,861 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
  • Socket pass 15 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Sept 2026
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 $0.00074 $0.02861
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.01144
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00572
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00286

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e13702bb8ee2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shadcn-ui 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.

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.

plugins/developer-kit-typescript/skills/shadcn-ui/SKILL.md · 312 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 312 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

shadcn/ui Component Patterns

Build accessible, customizable UI components with shadcn/ui, Radix UI, and Tailwind CSS.

Overview

  • Components are copied into your project — you own and customize the code
  • Built on Radix UI primitives for full accessibility
  • Styled with Tailwind CSS and CSS variables for theming
  • CLI-based installation: npx shadcn@latest add <component>

When to Use

Activate when user requests involve:

  • "Set up shadcn/ui", "initialize shadcn", "add shadcn components"
  • "Install button/input/form/dialog/card/select/toast/table/chart"
  • "React Hook Form", "Zod validation", "form with validation"
  • "accessible components", "Radix UI", "Tailwind theme"
  • "shadcn button", "shadcn dialog", "shadcn sheet", "shadcn table"
  • "dark mode", "CSS variables", "custom theme"
  • "charts with Recharts", "bar chart", "line chart", "pie chart"

Quick Reference

Available Components

Component Install Command Description
button npx shadcn@latest add button Variants: default, destructive, outline, secondary, ghost, link
input npx shadcn@latest add input Text input field
form npx shadcn@latest add form React Hook Form integration with validation
card npx shadcn@latest add card Container with header, content, footer
dialog npx shadcn@latest add dialog Modal overlay
sheet npx shadcn@latest add sheet Slide-over panel (top/right/bottom/left)
select npx shadcn@latest add select Dropdown select
toast npx shadcn@latest add toast Notification toasts
table npx shadcn@latest add table Data table
menubar npx shadcn@latest add menubar Desktop-style menubar
chart npx shadcn@latest add chart Recharts wrapper with theming
textarea npx shadcn@latest add textarea Multi-line text input
checkbox npx shadcn@latest add checkbox Checkbox input
label npx shadcn@latest add label Accessible form label

Read the full file on GitHub · 312 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 · 312 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A e13702bb8ee2

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shadcn-ui is a skill published in the GitHub repository giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit (363 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,861 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-10.

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