devtools-production

Guidance for keeping TanStack Devtools available during development while removing it from production builds when appropriate. It covers Vite projects and other setups with different production strategies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when configuring TanStack Devtools dependencies, imports, Vite build settings, or production behavior.
Why use it?
It prevents development-only tools from increasing the size or contents of a released application.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/tanstack/devtools/devtools-production
Any agent
npx skills add TanStack/devtools --skill devtools-production
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TanStack/devtools

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,398 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 $0.00043 $0.03398
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01699
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00680
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00340

Measured yesterday against content hash 4ce57a776bff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devtools-production 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 yesterday.

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.

packages/devtools/skills/devtools-production/SKILL.md · 463 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 463 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TanStack Devtools Production Handling

Prerequisite: Read the devtools-app-setup skill first. The initial setup decisions (framework adapter, Vite plugin, dependency type) directly determine which production strategy applies.

How Production Stripping Works

TanStack Devtools has two independent mechanisms for keeping devtools out of production bundles. Understanding both is essential because they serve different project types.

Mechanism 1: Vite Plugin Auto-Stripping (Vite projects)

The @tanstack/devtools-vite plugin includes a sub-plugin named @tanstack/devtools:remove-devtools-on-build. When removeDevtoolsOnBuild is true (the default), this plugin runs during vite build and any non-serve command where the mode is production.

It uses oxc-parser to parse every source file, find imports from these packages, and remove them along with any JSX elements they produce:

  • @tanstack/react-devtools
  • @tanstack/preact-devtools
  • @tanstack/solid-devtools
  • @tanstack/vue-devtools
  • @tanstack/svelte-devtools
  • @tanstack/angular-devtools
  • @tanstack/devtools

The stripping is AST-based. It removes the import declaration, then finds and removes any JSX elements whose tag name matches one of the imported identifiers. It also traces plugin references inside the plugins prop array and removes their imports if they become unused.

Source: packages/devtools-vite/src/remove-devtools.ts

This means for a standard Vite project, the default setup from devtools-app-setup already handles production correctly with zero additional configuration:

// This import and JSX element are completely removed from the production build
import { TanStackDevtools } from '@tanstack/react-devtools'

function App() {
  return (
    <>
      <YourApp />
      <TanStackDevtools
        plugins={
          [
            /* ... */
          ]
        }
      />
    </>
  )
}

Mechanism 2: Conditional Exports (package.json)

The @tanstack/devtools core package uses Node.js conditional exports to serve different bundles based on the environment:

Read the full file on GitHub · 463 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. yesterday First seen · 463 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 4ce57a776bff

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devtools-production is a skill published in the GitHub repository TanStack/devtools (493 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 3,398 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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