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.
npx skills add PracticalSwan/agent-skills --skill composition-patternsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PracticalSwan/agent-skillsWrote 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/practicalswan/agent-skills/composition-patterns)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/composition-patterns"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/composition-patterns/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/practicalswan/agent-skills/composition-patterns"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/composition-patterns.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Prompt Injection · line 85 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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 | $0.00055 | $0.01152 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00022 | $0.00461 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00230 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00115 |
Grade A, and why
composition-patterns 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 — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
React Composition Patterns
Composition patterns for building flexible, maintainable React components. Avoid boolean prop proliferation by using compound components, lifting state, and composing internals. These patterns make codebases easier for both humans and AI agents to work with as they scale.
When to Apply
Reference these guidelines when:
- Refactoring components with many boolean props
- Building reusable component libraries
- Designing flexible component APIs
- Reviewing component architecture
- Working with compound components or context providers
Rule Categories by Priority
| Priority | Category | Impact | Prefix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Component Architecture | HIGH | architecture- |
| 2 | State Management | MEDIUM | state- |
| 3 | Implementation Patterns | MEDIUM | patterns- |
| 4 | React 19 APIs | MEDIUM | react19- |
Quick Reference
1. Component Architecture (HIGH)
architecture-avoid-boolean-props- Don't add boolean props to customize behavior; use compositionarchitecture-compound-components- Structure complex components with shared context
2. State Management (MEDIUM)
state-decouple-implementation- Provider is the only place that knows how state is managedstate-context-interface- Define generic interface with state, actions, meta for dependency injectionstate-lift-state- Move state into provider components for sibling access
3. Implementation Patterns (MEDIUM)
patterns-explicit-variants- Create explicit variant components instead of boolean modespatterns-children-over-render-props- Use children for composition instead of renderX props
4. React 19 APIs (MEDIUM)
⚠️ React 19+ only. Skip this section if using React 18 or earlier.
react19-no-forwardref- Don't useforwardRef; useuse()instead ofuseContext()
What ships with it
14 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.md 22 KB
- CHANGELOG.md 3.1 KB
- metadata.json 530 B
- README.md 2.1 KB
- rules/_sections.md 829 B
- rules/_template.md 329 B
- rules/architecture-avoid-boolean-props.md 2.2 KB
- rules/architecture-compound-components.md 2.5 KB
- rules/patterns-children-over-render-props.md 1.8 KB
- rules/patterns-explicit-variants.md 2.3 KB
- rules/react19-no-forwardref.md 953 B
- rules/state-context-interface.md 4.9 KB
- rules/state-decouple-implementation.md 2.6 KB
- rules/state-lift-state.md 3.1 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 550c4979e7f1
- 1mo ago Changed 640d757dbdf5
- 1mo ago Changed 4e2198af13b5
- 1mo ago First seen · 133 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 9899c40783a4
composition-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository PracticalSwan/agent-skills (21 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,152 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 2026-08-30.
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