frontend-patterns

A set of guidelines for building user interfaces with reusable components, responsive layouts, sensible state handling, performance checks, and accessibility in mind.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating React components, pages, styles, hooks, or client-side state, especially when the interface must work on different screen sizes and support keyboard and assistive-technology users.
Why use it?
It helps keep interface work focused on helping users complete tasks, instead of making isolated visual choices that may be difficult to use or maintain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the cc-teams plugin — 17 skills, 14 agents shipped together

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/romiluz13/cc-teams/frontend-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add romiluz13/cc-teams --skill frontend-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/romiluz13/cc-teams

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cc-teams, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 14 agents.

Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,966 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 $0.00018 $0.04966
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.02483
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00993
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00497

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4162f843d720, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

frontend-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 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.

plugins/cc-teams/skills/frontend-patterns/SKILL.md · 583 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 583 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Frontend Patterns

Overview

User interfaces exist to help users accomplish tasks. Every UI decision should make the user's task easier or the interface more accessible.

Core principle: Design for user success, not aesthetic preference.

Violating the letter of this process is violating the spirit of frontend design.

Focus Areas (Reference Pattern)

  • React component architecture (hooks, context, performance)
  • Responsive CSS with Tailwind/CSS-in-JS
  • State management (Redux, Zustand, Context API)
  • Frontend performance (lazy loading, code splitting, memoization)
  • Accessibility (WCAG compliance, ARIA labels, keyboard navigation)

Approach (Reference Pattern)

  1. Component-first thinking - reusable, composable UI pieces
  2. Mobile-first responsive design - start small, scale up
  3. Performance budgets - aim for sub-3s load times
  4. Semantic HTML and proper ARIA attributes
  5. Type safety with TypeScript when applicable

Component Output Checklist

Every frontend deliverable should include:

  • Complete React component with props interface
  • Styling solution (Tailwind classes or styled-components)
  • State management implementation if needed
  • Basic unit test structure
  • Accessibility checklist for the component
  • Performance considerations and optimizations

Focus on working code over explanations. Include usage examples in comments.

The Iron Law

NO UI DESIGN BEFORE USER FLOW IS UNDERSTOOD

If you haven't mapped what the user is trying to accomplish, you cannot design UI.

Design Thinking (Pre-Code)

Before writing any UI code, commit to answers for:

  1. Purpose: What specific problem does this interface solve?
  2. Tone: Choose an aesthetic direction and commit to it:
    • Brutally minimal, maximalist, retro-futuristic, organic/natural
    • Luxury/refined, playful/toy-like, editorial/magazine, brutalist/raw
    • Art deco/geometric, soft/pastel, industrial/utilitarian
  3. Constraints: Framework requirements, performance budget, accessibility level
  4. Differentiation: What's the ONE thing someone will remember about this UI?

Read the full file on GitHub · 583 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. 3d ago First seen · 583 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 4162f843d720

Subscribe to this mod's changes

frontend-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository romiluz13/cc-teams (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 4,966 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 2026-08-31.

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