recreate-as-react

A method for turning an existing component, screen, or code snippet into a standalone React and TypeScript prototype styled with Tailwind CSS.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to recreate interfaces from any codebase for Magic Patterns or another React sandbox.
Why use it?
It lets developers reproduce a design in a small set of files without running the original application or browser.

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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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magicpatterns/agent-plugins/recreate-as-react
Any agent
npx skills add magicpatterns/agent-plugins --skill recreate-as-react
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magicpatterns/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,797 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00120 $0.05797
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.02899
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.01159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00580

Measured yesterday against content hash 5cf9919c78c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recreate-as-react 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 yesterday.

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.

claude-code/plugins/magic-patterns/skills/recreate-as-react/SKILL.md · 237 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Recreate as React

Turn a component, screen, or pasted snippet into a self-contained React + TypeScript + Tailwind prototype — a small set of files that compiles and renders standalone (in the Magic Patterns prototype environment or any React sandbox) and reproduces the original's styling as faithfully as possible.

Method: static. Read the source and resolve its design tokens by inspection — do NOT run the app, Storybook, or a browser. Fidelity comes from carefully tracing whatever styling system the codebase uses down to concrete values, then re-expressing them in Tailwind (or the source's own props/tokens).

This works for any codebase. The styling system varies (Tailwind, CSS/SCSS, CSS Modules, styled-components / Emotion, vanilla-extract, a design-system library like Radix/MUI/Chakra/Mantine/shadcn, or plain inline styles). Step 2 is about identifying which one is in play and following the chain to real pixel/color/font values.

Where this runs — the Magic Patterns environment

The file set this skill produces is exactly the scaffold Magic Patterns renders (App.tsx, index.tsx, index.css, tailwind.config.js), so it can be written straight into a Magic Patterns design. Conform to that environment so the upload compiles and renders:

  • React + TypeScript. No any — define prop types/interfaces.
  • Named exports only — never export default a React component.
  • One React component per file; split large screens into sub-components rather than a monolith.
  • Tailwind CSS v3 — use it for net-new UI; for reproduced UI, prefer the source's own styling (see Step 2). Keep the index.css imports in the exact order below.
  • Icons: lucide-react is available (import full names ending in Icon, e.g. UserIcon). For fidelity, inlining the exact <svg> markup copied 1:1 from source is preferred and also compiles in MP — never guess or redraw an icon.
  • Routing (only if needed): BrowserRouter from react-router-dom.
  • Fonts: @import url(...) in index.css — never next/font.
  • Images: absolute URLs only (the original remote URL or the project's served URL) — app-relative paths won't resolve.
  • Package preferences when applicable: sonner (toasts), recharts (charts), @xyflow/react (node/canvas), Leaflet (maps). Avoid @react-three/fiber / @react-three/drei.
  • The code must compile — no unresolved imports, missing symbols, or type errors. If a dependency is unavailable, stub it locally so it still compiles.

Read the full file on GitHub · 237 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. yesterday First seen · 237 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 5cf9919c78c7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

recreate-as-react is a skill published in the GitHub repository magicpatterns/agent-plugins (0 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 5,797 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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