What is magento-frontend?

A guide to Magento 2 storefront development, including page layout files, PHP view components, templates, themes, JavaScript, and LESS or CSS. The storefront is the part of an online shop that customers see and use.

Use it to build or customize themes, move or add page elements, create templates, and change storefront JavaScript and styles.

It explains how Magento assembles pages and where to change their structure, markup, behavior, and styling. This helps avoid editing the wrong layer when customizing a shop.

magento-frontend — Skill for Claude Code by OrcaQubits

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.

Any agent

npx skills add OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins --skill magento-frontend

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install magento2-commerce, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,186 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00056	$0.01186
Opus 5	$0.00028	$0.00593
Sonnet 5	$0.00011	$0.00237
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00119

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1fd1dea87975, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-17, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

magento-frontend 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 3d 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.

magento2-commerce/skills/magento-frontend/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Magento 2 Frontend Development

Before writing code

Fetch live docs:

Web-search site:developer.adobe.com commerce frontend-core for frontend development guide
Fetch https://developer.adobe.com/commerce/frontend-core/guide/css/preprocess for CSS/LESS docs
Web-search site:developer.adobe.com commerce frontend-core guide layouts for layout XML reference
Web-search site:developer.adobe.com commerce frontend-core guide templates for template guide

Layout XML

How Layouts Work

Layout files map to route handles and define the page structure:

Containers — structural wrappers (header, content, footer)
Blocks — content-rendering units tied to PHP classes and templates
Handle naming: <route>_<controller>_<action>.xml (e.g., catalog_product_view.xml)
default.xml — applies to all pages

Key Layout Instructions

<referenceContainer> — modify an existing container
<referenceBlock> — modify an existing block
<block> — add a new block with class, template, name
<move> — relocate a block/container
<referenceBlock name="block_name" remove="true"/> — remove a block (or use <referenceContainer> for containers). Note: there is no standalone <remove> element for blocks; the remove="true" attribute is set on <referenceBlock> or <referenceContainer>.
<update> — include another layout handle
<arguments> — pass data to blocks

Layout Files Location

Module: view/frontend/layout/ or view/adminhtml/layout/
Theme: Magento_Module/layout/

Blocks and Templates

Block Classes

Extend Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template
Contain data logic that templates consume
$block->someMethod() in PHTML templates

PHTML Templates

Located in view/frontend/templates/ or theme overrides
PHP + HTML files with .phtml extension
Access block: $block, escape output: $escaper->escapeHtml()

ViewModels (Recommended)

MVVM pattern — inject ViewModels into blocks via layout XML arguments:

ViewModels implement Magento\Framework\View\Element\Block\ArgumentInterface
Keeps blocks thin; ViewModels carry the logic
Access in template: $viewModel = $block->getData('view_model');

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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.

3d ago First seen · 135 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 1fd1dea87975

Subscribe to this mod's changes

magento-frontend is a skill published in the GitHub repository OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins (39 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,186 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-15.

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