column-visibility

A guide to hiding table columns while keeping their definitions available to the table. It explains how to render only visible headers and cells and how to build controls for columns that can be hidden.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding column-picker controls, responsive table layouts, optional fields, or saved column-visibility settings.
Why use it?
It prevents hidden columns from still appearing in the page and avoids confusing an unspecified visibility setting with an explicitly hidden one.

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/table/column-visibility
Any agent
npx skills add TanStack/table --skill column-visibility
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TanStack/table

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 544 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 $0.00048 $0.00544
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00272
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00054

Measured yesterday against content hash 364cb6a60d10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

column-visibility 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/table-core/skills/column-visibility/SKILL.md · 72 lines

What it actually says

This skill builds on core and table-features. Visibility state changes visibility-aware models; it never removes the column definition.

Setup

import { columnVisibilityFeature, tableFeatures } from '@tanstack/table-core'

export const features = tableFeatures({ columnVisibilityFeature })
export const initialState = { columnVisibility: { internalId: false } }

Core Patterns

const headers = table.getHeaderGroups()
const cells = row.getVisibleCells()
const toggles = table
  .getAllLeafColumns()
  .filter((column) => column.getCanHide())

Use all-column APIs for controls and visible APIs for rendered table content.

Common Mistakes

[HIGH] Rendering hidden cells anyway

Wrong: row.getAllCells().map(renderCell)

Correct: row.getVisibleCells().map(renderCell)

All-cell APIs intentionally include hidden columns.

Source: docs/framework/react/guide/column-visibility.md#column-visibility-aware-table-apis

[HIGH] Treating absence as hidden

Wrong: const hidden = !columnVisibility[column.id]

Correct: const hidden = columnVisibility[column.id] === false

Only explicit false hides a column; an absent entry is visible.

Source: packages/table-core/src/features/column-visibility/columnVisibilityFeature.ts

[MEDIUM] Treating enableHiding as visibility

Wrong: helper.accessor('id', { enableHiding: false })

Correct: const initialState = { columnVisibility: { id: false } }

enableHiding controls whether hiding is allowed; visibility belongs in table state.

Source: packages/table-core/src/features/column-visibility/columnVisibilityFeature.types.ts

API Discovery

Inspect node_modules/@tanstack/table-core/dist/features/column-visibility/ for visibility-aware table, row, and column APIs.

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 · 72 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 364cb6a60d10

Subscribe to this mod's changes

column-visibility is a skill published in the GitHub repository TanStack/table (28,393 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 544 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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