next

A renderer that turns JSON specifications into complete Next.js applications. Next.js is a React framework for websites and web apps, including pages, routes, server rendering, and page metadata.

In plain words
What is it for?
Generating routes, shared layouts, pages, metadata, and server-rendered applications from JSON specifications.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to define multi-page applications as data while retaining Next.js features such as layouts and search-engine metadata.

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/vercel-labs/json-render/next
Any agent
npx skills add vercel-labs/json-render --skill next
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vercel-labs/json-render

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,401 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 $0.00053 $0.01401
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00700
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00280
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00140

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1891c3cfa24a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

next 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.

skills/next/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

@json-render/next

Next.js renderer that converts JSON specs into full Next.js applications with routes, pages, layouts, metadata, and SSR support.

Quick Start

npm install @json-render/core @json-render/react @json-render/next

1. Define Your Spec

// lib/spec.ts
import type { NextAppSpec } from "@json-render/next";

export const spec: NextAppSpec = {
  metadata: {
    title: { default: "My App", template: "%s | My App" },
    description: "A json-render Next.js application",
  },
  layouts: {
    main: {
      root: "shell",
      elements: {
        shell: { type: "Container", props: {}, children: ["nav", "slot"] },
        nav: { type: "NavBar", props: { links: [
          { href: "/", label: "Home" },
          { href: "/about", label: "About" },
        ]}, children: [] },
        slot: { type: "Slot", props: {}, children: [] },
      },
    },
  },
  routes: {
    "/": {
      layout: "main",
      metadata: { title: "Home" },
      page: {
        root: "hero",
        elements: {
          hero: { type: "Card", props: { title: "Welcome" }, children: [] },
        },
      },
    },
    "/about": {
      layout: "main",
      metadata: { title: "About" },
      page: {
        root: "content",
        elements: {
          content: { type: "Card", props: { title: "About Us" }, children: [] },
        },
      },
    },
  },
};

2. Create the App

// lib/app.ts
import { createNextApp } from "@json-render/next/server";
import { spec } from "./spec";

export const { Page, generateMetadata, generateStaticParams } = createNextApp({
  spec,
  loaders: {
    // Server-side data loaders (optional)
    loadPost: async ({ slug }) => {
      const post = await getPost(slug as string);
      return { post };
    },
  },
});

3. Wire Up Route Files

// app/[[...slug]]/page.tsx
export { Page as default, generateMetadata, generateStaticParams } from "@/lib/app";
// app/[[...slug]]/layout.tsx
import { NextAppProvider } from "@json-render/next";
import { registry, handlers } from "@/lib/registry";

export default function Layout({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
  return (
    <html lang="en">
      <body>
        <NextAppProvider registry={registry} handlers={handlers}>
          {children}
        </NextAppProvider>
      </body>
    </html>
  );
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 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. 2d ago First seen · 195 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 1891c3cfa24a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

next is a skill published in the GitHub repository vercel-labs/json-render (16,056 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,401 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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