app-shell-routing

app-shell-routing is a skill for Claude Code from sukirman1901/frontend-expert. It costs 85 tokens per session (807 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-app shell and routing skill for designing the parts of an application that stay visible while pages change. It covers navigation, layouts, breadcrumbs, deep links, missing pages, empty states, and access-denied routes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building dashboards and SaaS interfaces, adding side or top navigation, designing settings and admin layouts, and handling 404, unauthorized, empty, and deep-linked routes.
Why use it?
It helps users understand where they are and how to move through a multi-page application. It also defines consistent header, sidebar, account, theme, and error-state behavior.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the frontend-expert plugin — 25 skills, 5 commands, 3 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Building dashboards and SaaS interfaces, adding side or top navigation, designing settings and admin layouts, and handling 404, unauthorized, empty, and deep-linked routes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sukirman1901/frontend-expert/app-shell-routing
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 sukirman1901/frontend-expert --skill app-shell-routing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sukirman1901/frontend-expert

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install frontend-expert, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 5 commands, 3 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 807 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 $0.00085 $0.00807
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00404
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00081

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5491bfd63403, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-shell-routing 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 9d 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.

skills/app-shell-routing/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Shell & Routing

Overview

Define where the user is and how they move. Shell (chrome) stays stable; page content swaps. Match modern SaaS dashboard chrome — not a blank header with only text brand.

When to use

  • New app layout, dashboard shell, marketing+app split
  • Nav IA, breadcrumbs, nested routes, 404/unauthorized
  • Settings / admin pages (still need full shell)

Workflow

  1. Shell chrome (MUST for product/dashboard UI)
    • Logo — real mark (SVG/img), not a letter in a box alone
    • Brand name visible next to logo (can truncate on tiny widths)
    • Utilities — at least 1–2 of: search, notifications, help (icon buttons OK)
    • Theme — if light/dark exists, put it in topbar utilities as an icon toggle (moon/sun). Do not park a labeled “Dark mode” button in the sidebar footer
    • Profileavatar-only control in the topbar at all breakpoints; name/email live in an account dropdown on click — never display:none the whole account control on mobile; do not spill name/email into the header chrome by default
    • Anatomy: brand · (optional primary nav) · utilities (theme/help/bell) · avatar menu
  2. Sidebar
    • Desktop: persistent rail; support collapse → icon-only (≥768)
    • Prefer auto-collapse near tablet / narrow desktop; remember preference when useful
    • Mobile: overlay drawer + backdrop (not push-down accordion under the header) — see responsive-ui
    • Sidebar is for nav, not theme/account chrome
  3. IA — primary nav ≤7 items; nest the rest; active state clear
  4. Routing — URLs reflect location; filters in query when shareable
  5. Fallbacks — 404, empty route, unauthorized → clear CTA
  6. Motion — load motion for shell/drawer/section enter (light defaults)

Checklist

  • Logo mark + brand (not letter-only placeholder as the final chrome)
  • Theme toggle in topbar utilities (if theming) — not sidebar footer
  • Avatar-only profile → account dropdown (name/email inside menu)
  • Utility cluster present (or explicit waiver: minimal tool)
  • Sidebar collapse (desktop) + drawer+backdrop (mobile)
  • Main landmark; active nav indication
  • 404 / empty route handled when multi-route
  • Icons via Reicon (or project lib) on nav items

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 9d ago First seen · 67 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 5491bfd63403

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app-shell-routing is a skill published in the GitHub repository sukirman1901/frontend-expert (10 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 807 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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