nextjs-app-router

nextjs-app-router is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hoangatg/ai-agent-toolkit. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,057 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building Next.js 14 and newer websites with the App Router, including server-rendered components, data loading, caching, and streaming pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating routes, layouts, loading and error pages, server actions, or data-driven Next.js applications.
Why use it?
It helps avoid mixing older Next.js approaches with the App Router's file and rendering rules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when creating routes, layouts, loading and error pages, server actions, or data-driven Next.js applications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hoangatg/ai-agent-toolkit/nextjs-app-router
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add hoangatg/ai-agent-toolkit --skill nextjs-app-router
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hoangatg/ai-agent-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,057 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.
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 $0.00040 $0.01057
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00528
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00106

Measured 7d ago against content hash b926710bd1fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nextjs-app-router 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 7d 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.

.agent/skills/nextjs-app-router/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Next.js App Router

Server-first React. Less JavaScript, faster pages.


1. Core Concepts

Server vs Client Components

Feature Server Component (default) Client Component ("use client")
Rendering Server only Server + Client hydration
JS bundle Zero Included in bundle
Data fetching Direct DB/API access useEffect or React Query
State/Effects ❌ No hooks ✅ useState, useEffect
Event handlers ❌ No onClick ✅ Full interactivity
Best for Static content, data display Interactive UI, forms

Rule: Everything is a Server Component unless it needs interactivity. Push "use client" as far down the tree as possible.


2. Routing

File Conventions

File Purpose
page.tsx Route UI
layout.tsx Shared layout (persists across navigations)
loading.tsx Streaming fallback
error.tsx Error boundary
not-found.tsx 404 page
route.ts API endpoint

Route Groups & Parallel Routes

Pattern Syntax Use Case
Route Group (group) Organize without URL impact
Parallel @slot Multiple views on same page
Intercepting (.), (..) Modal patterns
Dynamic [slug] Parameterized routes
Catch-all [...slug] Flexible matching

3. Data Fetching

Patterns

Pattern Where Caching
fetch() in Server Component Server Cached by default
Server Action Server No cache
React Query Client Client cache
unstable_cache Server Manual cache

Caching Strategy

Cache Layer Default Override
Request memoization ON Per request
Data cache ON revalidate option
Full route cache ON (static) dynamic = 'force-dynamic'
Router cache ON revalidatePath(), revalidateTag()

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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. 7d ago First seen · 149 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A b926710bd1fb

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nextjs-app-router is a skill published in the GitHub repository hoangatg/ai-agent-toolkit (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,057 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.