pagination

A guide to showing table data in pages, either by slicing all available rows in the browser or by loading one page at a time from a server. It covers page size, page number, and total-row information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building page controls, server-backed lists, page-size selectors, total-result displays, or tables that must handle unknown page limits.
Why use it?
It prevents accidentally paginating the same data twice and prevents incorrect next-page or last-page controls when the total number of rows is unknown or missing.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 584 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 $0.00049 $0.00584
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00292
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00058

Measured 2d ago against content hash 38aa7267d85f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pagination 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 2d 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.

packages/table-core/skills/pagination/SKILL.md · 75 lines

What it actually says

This skill builds on core, table-features, and client-vs-server. Choose client slicing or server pages, never both accidentally.

Setup

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

export const features = tableFeatures({
  rowPaginationFeature,
  paginatedRowModel: createPaginatedRowModel(),
})
export const initialState = { pagination: { pageIndex: 0, pageSize: 25 } }

Core Patterns

const serverOptions = { manualPagination: true, rowCount: response.total }

Pass one already-processed page and either rowCount or pageCount.

Common Mistakes

[CRITICAL] Expecting manual mode to slice

Wrong: const options = { data: allRows, manualPagination: true }

Correct: const options = { data: requestedPageRows, manualPagination: true, rowCount: totalRows }

Manual pagination trusts the provided data as the current page.

Source: https://github.com/TanStack/table/issues/4917

[HIGH] Omitting the server total

Wrong: const options = { data: pageRows, manualPagination: true }

Correct: const options = { data: pageRows, manualPagination: true, rowCount: 1234 }

Without a count, last-page and next-page availability cannot reflect the server dataset.

Source: packages/table-core/src/features/row-pagination/rowPaginationFeature.types.ts

[HIGH] Fighting automatic page resets

Wrong: onPaginationChange: setPagination

Correct: const options = { onPaginationChange: setPagination, autoResetPageIndex: false }

Client data and processing changes may reset page index; configure the policy when product state must retain it.

Source: docs/framework/react/guide/pagination.md#auto-reset-page-index

API Discovery

Inspect node_modules/@tanstack/table-core/dist/features/row-pagination/ for reset rules, count calculation, and navigation 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. 2d ago First seen · 75 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 38aa7267d85f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pagination is a skill published in the GitHub repository TanStack/table (28,393 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 584 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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