Component Conventions

Component Conventions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from niels-emmer/myace. It costs 28 tokens per session (376 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building UI components: reusable interface parts such as buttons, forms, and panels. It covers their names, size, inputs, and where their local state should live.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding, splitting, naming, or designing the inputs and state for a frontend component.
Why use it?
It reduces inconsistent structure, overly large components, unnecessary indirection, and confusing data flow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: mentions Codex; built for aider; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it when adding, splitting, naming, or designing the inputs and state for a frontend component.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/niels-emmer/myace/component-conventions
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add niels-emmer/myace --skill component-conventions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/niels-emmer/myace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 376 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 $0.00028 $0.00376
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00188
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00038

Measured 8d ago against content hash 22cb44430f97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Component Conventions 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 8d 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.

collections/additional/frontend/skills/component-conventions/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Purpose

Consistent component sizing, naming, and structure across the codebase.

When to use it

Adding a new component, deciding whether to split one, or deciding where state should live.

Composition

  • Default to small components with one clear job. Signal of too-big: mixes data fetching + layout + business logic + presentation.
  • Don't extract single-use components prematurely — splitting adds indirection without benefit.
  • Extract when: reused in >1 place, represents a distinct nameable concept, or measurably simplifies the parent.

Naming

  • Name for what the component represents (UserAvatar, not RoundImageWithBorder).
  • Match the project's existing casing and file-naming convention.
  • Keep file name and exported name in sync.

Prop design

  • Pass only what the component needs — avoid passing entire data objects when two fields suffice.
  • Prefer explicit typed props over a generic data/config blob.
  • Use variant/size enums over piles of independent booleans.

State locality

  • Keep state in the component that owns it.
  • Lift only to the nearest common ancestor when multiple components genuinely share the value.
  • Use global state only for app-wide data (auth, theme).

Expected output

A component with one clear responsibility, purpose-based name, minimal typed props, and state as local as sharing requirements allow.

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. 8d ago First seen · 44 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 22cb44430f97

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Component Conventions is a skill published in the GitHub repository niels-emmer/myace (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 376 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.