ux-modern-app-feel

ux-modern-app-feel is a skill for Claude Code from khadinakbarlabs/shopify-app-builder. It costs 162 tokens per session (7,992 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for making a Shopify admin app feel fast, focused, and easy to use. It covers keyboard shortcuts, command palettes, quick interface responses, layout density, and sensible defaults.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building or reviewing Shopify app screens, adding keyboard controls or command search, improving loading feedback, and simplifying configuration.
Why use it?
It helps reduce slow, cluttered, mouse-dependent screens while staying within Shopify's interface conventions.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the shopify-app-builder plugin — 32 skills, 9 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when building or reviewing Shopify app screens, adding keyboard controls or command search, improving loading feedback, and simplifying configuration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/khadinakbarlabs/shopify-app-builder/ux-modern-app-feel
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add khadinakbarlabs/shopify-app-builder --skill ux-modern-app-feel
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/khadinakbarlabs/shopify-app-builder

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shopify-app-builder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 9 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 162 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,992 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 $0.00162 $0.07992
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.03996
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.01598
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00799

Measured 11d ago against content hash e2f0833a9ca8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ux-modern-app-feel 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 11d 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.

skills/ux-modern-app-feel/SKILL.md · 741 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 741 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Modern App Feel for Shopify Embedded Apps

Most Shopify apps feel like 2015 — wall-of-settings, slow page loads, mouse-only, no keyboard, no taste. The modern reference is Linear, Notion, Vercel, Cron, Raycast, Superhuman, Arc — apps that feel calm, instant, opinionated, and keyboard-first. This skill is how to bring that feel inside Polaris and App Bridge 4.x without breaking the Built for Shopify (BFS) badge or merchant expectations.

The premise: Polaris is the floor, not the ceiling. You can absolutely build a Linear-tier embedded app within Polaris — you just have to be deliberate about the seven things that actually make an app feel modern, and ruthless about everything else.


When to Use This Skill

Use when:

  • Building a new Shopify embedded app and you want it to feel categorically better than the competitor apps in the same category
  • Refactoring an existing app that feels slow, cluttered, or "Shopify-default" with no taste
  • Asked "how do I make this feel more like Linear / Notion / Vercel inside a Shopify app"
  • Adding keyboard shortcuts, a command palette, optimistic UI, or other speed-feel patterns to an embedded app
  • Deciding between dense vs spacious layouts for a merchant-facing dashboard
  • Asked about brand expression — when can you override Polaris colors, and when shouldn't you
  • About to ship an "infinite settings" page and want the heuristic for whether each setting earns its place
  • Considering a custom design system on top of Polaris (almost always wrong — this skill explains why)

Do NOT use when:

  • Building a checkout extension or storefront block — those have their own constraints (Checkout UI Extensions, theme app extensions)
  • Building a non-embedded surface (POS, mobile app shell)
  • The merchant has explicitly asked for a Shopify-default-looking app for trust reasons (rare, but real for some legal/finance apps)

The Six Modern SaaS UX Principles (And How Each Lands Inside Polaris)

Every modern SaaS app worth copying — Linear, Notion, Vercel, Cron, Raycast, Superhuman, Arc — converges on these six principles. The trick is translating each into something Polaris-compliant.

Read the full file on GitHub · 741 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. 11d ago First seen · 741 lines · 162 tokens per session scan A e2f0833a9ca8

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ux-modern-app-feel is a skill published in the GitHub repository khadinakbarlabs/shopify-app-builder (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 162 tokens to every session and 7,992 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.

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