clerk-nextjs-patterns

clerk-nextjs-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vvedantb/eva. It costs 21 tokens per session (2,162 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to advanced Clerk authentication patterns in Next.js, a React framework for web applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for Next.js middleware, Server Actions, API route permissions, server-versus-client authentication, and user-specific caching.
Why use it?
It explains how authentication behaves on the server and in the browser, so protected pages, actions, API routes, and cached data use the right approach.

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/vvedantb/eva/clerk-nextjs-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add vvedantb/eva --skill clerk-nextjs-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vvedantb/eva

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,162 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 5.1 $0.00021 $0.02162
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01081
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00432
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00216

Measured 6d ago against content hash 67a7f0a6b314, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clerk-nextjs-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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (templates/nextjs-basic-auth/proxy.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/clerk-nextjs-patterns/SKILL.md · 263 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 263 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Next.js Patterns

Version: Check package.json for the SDK version — see clerk skill for the version table. Core 2 differences are noted inline with > **Core 2 ONLY (skip if current SDK):** callouts.

For basic setup, see clerk-setup skill.

What Do You Need?

Task Reference
Server vs client auth (auth() vs hooks) references/server-vs-client.md
Configure middleware (public-first vs protected-first) references/middleware-strategies.md
Protect Server Actions references/server-actions.md
API route auth (401 vs 403) references/api-routes.md
Cache auth data (user-scoped caching) references/caching-auth.md

References

Reference Description
references/server-vs-client.md await auth() vs hooks
references/middleware-strategies.md Public-first vs protected-first, proxy.ts (Next.js <=15: middleware.ts)
references/server-actions.md Protect mutations
references/api-routes.md 401 vs 403
references/caching-auth.md User-scoped caching

Mental Model

Server vs Client = different auth APIs:

  • Server: await auth() from @clerk/nextjs/server (async!)
  • Client: useAuth() hook from @clerk/nextjs (sync)

Never mix them. Server Components use server imports, Client Components use hooks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 263 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. 6d ago First seen · 263 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 67a7f0a6b314

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clerk-nextjs-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository vvedantb/eva (101 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 2,162 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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