Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to ItsWendell/palot. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ItsWendell/palot/main/.agents/skills/shadcn/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ItsWendell/palotWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/itswendell/palot/shadcn)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/itswendell/palot/shadcn"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/itswendell/palot/shadcn/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/itswendell/palot/shadcn"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/itswendell/palot/shadcn.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00060 | $0.00704 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00024 | $0.00282 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00141 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00070 |
Grade A, and why
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 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
shadcn/ui in Palot
Palot pins the shadcn CLI in apps/desktop. Run it from that workspace through Vite+:
vp exec -- shadcn info --json
vp exec -- shadcn docs <component>
Do not use npx, pnpm dlx, bunx, or an @latest CLI. Preserve the repository pin and the aliases, Tailwind file, primitive base, icon library, and registries reported by info.
Choose the work
- Existing-source fixes: inspect the component and relevant callers first. Use the local implementation as the contract; CLI discovery and external docs are unnecessary when that evidence answers the question.
- Adding components or changing registry/configuration: read repository-root
../../../apps/desktop/components.jsonand runvp exec -- shadcn info --jsonfromapps/desktop. Prefer existing local primitives and variants; usesearchorviewwhen looking for a missing component. - Unclear APIs or upstream behavior: use
vp exec -- shadcn docs <component>and fetch the relevant returned documentation. Reconcile it with the local source before applying it to customized components. - Upstream component updates: follow the preview workflow below.
Inspect changed imports and CSS where applicable, then follow the formatting and validation workflow in the development guide. Shadcn CLI edits bypass OpenCode's native formatter hook, so format those files explicitly while respecting the repository's exclusions.
Updating components
Use the CLI rather than fetching upstream source manually:
- Run
vp exec -- shadcn add <component> --dry-runto list affected files. - Run
vp exec -- shadcn add <component> --diff <file>for each customized file. - Apply upstream changes while preserving local behavior and imports.
- Use
--overwriteonly when the user explicitly authorizes replacing local changes.
Project rules
- Use semantic theme tokens rather than raw colors or manual dark-mode overrides.
- Use
gap-*,size-*,truncate, andcn()rather than equivalent verbose utilities. - Compose forms with
FieldGroupandField; put collection items inside their matching group. - Dialog-like surfaces require an accessible title.
- Prefer shared components such as
Alert,Empty,Separator,Skeleton, andBadgeover hand-built equivalents. - Keep layout decisions in call sites and reusable visual behavior in component variants.
What ships with it
16 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.
- agents/openai.yml 195 B
- assets/shadcn-small.png 1.0 KB
- assets/shadcn.png 3.8 KB
- cli.md 17 KB
- customization.md 5.9 KB
- evals/evals.json 6.2 KB
- LICENSE.md 1.0 KB
- mcp.md 3.4 KB
- NOTICE.md 1.5 KB
- registry.md 8.6 KB
- rules/base-vs-radix.md 6.8 KB
- rules/chat.md 6.8 KB
- rules/composition.md 5.6 KB
- rules/forms.md 4.8 KB
- rules/icons.md 1.9 KB
- rules/styling.md 4.6 KB
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.
- 1mo ago Changed 555f3b240075
- 1mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 9acfabd9f5f6
shadcn is a skill published in the GitHub repository ItsWendell/palot (194 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 704 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-13.
shadcn compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| shadcnItsWendell/palot | Skill | 194 | 2d ago | MIT | A | 60 | Codex |
| mobile-ios-designHigorAlves/orc | Skill | 7 | today | MIT | A | 16 | Claude Code |
| design-systemtmj-90/gaffer | Skill | 2 | 2d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 122 | Claude Code, Codex |
| brandtmj-90/gaffer | Skill | 2 | 2d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 102 | Claude Code, Codex |
| tailwind-design-systemHigorAlves/orc | Skill | 7 | today | MIT | A | 23 | Claude Code |
| orc-mobile-ios-designHigorAlves/orc | Skill | 7 | today | MIT | A | 17 | Codex |
| frontend-a11ytmj-90/gaffer | Skill | 2 | 2d ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 83 | Claude Code, Codex |