tailwind-patterns

A guide to using Tailwind CSS version 4, a tool for styling websites with small reusable classes and CSS-based design settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when configuring Tailwind v4, defining design tokens, writing responsive styles, and applying modern CSS patterns.
Why use it?
It helps you choose current Tailwind patterns and organize colors, spacing, fonts, and other design values consistently.

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/vudovn/ag-kit/tailwind-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add vudovn/ag-kit --skill tailwind-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vudovn/ag-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,872 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 $0.00026 $0.01872
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00936
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00374
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00187

Measured 3d ago against content hash 01b89bc9fd47, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tailwind-patterns 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 3d 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.

.agents/skills/tailwind-patterns/SKILL.md · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tailwind CSS Patterns (v4)

Modern utility-first CSS with CSS-native configuration.


1. Tailwind v4 Architecture

What Changed from v3

v3 (Legacy) v4 (Current)
tailwind.config.js CSS-based @theme directive
PostCSS plugin Oxide engine (full builds ~5x, incremental >100x)
JIT mode Native, always-on
Plugin system CSS-native features
@apply directive Still works, discouraged

v4 Core Concepts

Concept Description
CSS-first Configuration in CSS, not JavaScript
Oxide Engine Rust-based compiler, much faster
Native Nesting CSS nesting without PostCSS
CSS Variables All tokens exposed as --* vars

2. CSS-Based Configuration

Theme Definition

@theme {
  /* Colors - use semantic names */
  --color-primary: oklch(0.7 0.15 250);
  --color-surface: oklch(0.98 0 0);
  --color-surface-dark: oklch(0.15 0 0);
  
  /* Spacing scale */
  --spacing-xs: 0.25rem;
  --spacing-sm: 0.5rem;
  --spacing-md: 1rem;
  --spacing-lg: 2rem;
  
  /* Typography */
  --font-sans: 'Inter', system-ui, sans-serif;
  --font-mono: 'JetBrains Mono', monospace;
}

When to Extend vs Override

Action Use When
Extend Adding new values alongside defaults
Override Replacing default scale entirely
Semantic tokens Project-specific naming (primary, surface)

3. Container Queries (v4 Native)

Breakpoint vs Container

Type Responds To
Breakpoint (md:) Viewport width
Container (@container) Parent element width

Container Query Usage

Pattern Classes
Define container @container on parent
Container breakpoint @sm:, @md:, @lg: on children
Named containers @container/card for specificity

When to Use

Scenario Use
Page-level layouts Viewport breakpoints
Component-level responsive Container queries
Reusable components Container queries (context-independent)

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 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. 3d ago First seen · 272 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 01b89bc9fd47

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tailwind-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository vudovn/ag-kit (8,162 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,872 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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