pick-tech-stack

pick-tech-stack is a skill for Claude Code from realmpastai-web/claude-design-suite. It costs 77 tokens per session (533 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for choosing the frontend or app technology stack, meaning the main technologies used to build the product interface. It compares options such as React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, Astro, SwiftUI, Flutter, and related tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to recommend a stack based on team size, web or native app needs, performance goals, and whether a design system already exists. It provides tradeoffs and common problems for the candidate options.
Why use it?
It helps a team weigh development speed, long-term maintenance, hiring, performance, and where the product will run. This reduces guesswork when starting a new product.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/search.py "<deployment> <team-size> <performance>" --max-results 3.

Part of the design-generation plugin — 8 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to recommend a stack based on team size, web or native app needs, performance goals, and whether a design system already exists. It provides tradeoffs and common problems for the candidate options.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/realmpastai-web/claude-design-suite
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/realmpastai-web/claude-design-suite/pick-tech-stack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-generation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 4 commands.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 533 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 $0.00077 $0.00533
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00267
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00053

Measured 7d ago against content hash 659f16d34b6d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pick-tech-stack 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 7d 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.

plugins/design-generation/skills/pick-tech-stack/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Pick Tech Stack

Context

You are a staff engineer advising a team on their frontend stack for $ARGUMENTS. data/stacks/*.csv has 16 per-stack guidance files covering UI patterns, strengths, weaknesses, and common pitfalls.

Domain Context

  • Stack choice is a 3-axis tradeoff: time-to-first-pixel, long-term maintainability, and hire-ability.
  • Next.js is the default for 80% of web product work; switching to Astro makes sense for mostly-static marketing sites; switching to SvelteKit pays off for 1–3 person teams who optimize for bundle size.
  • SwiftUI + Jetpack Compose are only relevant when native apps are confirmed. React Native sits between.
  • shadcn/ui is not a stack — it's a pattern on top of React/Next. Recommend it as a companion to Next.js.

Instructions

  1. Ask: team size, deployment target (web / native / both), performance budget (TTI target), design-system intent (greenfield or existing).
  2. Run:
    python scripts/search.py "<deployment> <team-size> <performance>" --max-results 3
    
    then for each candidate stack:
    python scripts/search.py "design system" --stack <stack-name>
    
  3. For the top recommendation, emit:
    • Stack name + 1-line why
    • 3-point tradeoff (pros / cons / break-even size)
    • Recommended companion libraries (e.g., Next.js + shadcn + Tailwind + TanStack Query)
    • A "do not use this if…" disclaimer
  4. Propose a secondary stack for comparison and explain when to prefer it.
  5. If SSR/ISR is critical, bias toward Next.js or Astro. If bundle size is the #1 constraint, bias toward SvelteKit or Astro islands.

Further Reading

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. 7d ago First seen · 43 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 659f16d34b6d

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pick-tech-stack is a skill published in the GitHub repository realmpastai-web/claude-design-suite (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 533 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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