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shadcn
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By openai/plugins (GitHub) · design · 7,836 stars · scanned at commit d420d13
Manages shadcn components and projects — adding, searching, fixing, debugging, styling, and composing UI. Provides project context, component docs, and usage examples. Applies when working with shadcn/ui, component registries, presets, --preset codes, or any project with a components.json file. Also triggers for "shadcn init", "create an app with --preset", or "switch to --preset".
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What this skill can do
Downloads and installs other software
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- plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 22
1. **Use existing components first.** Use `npx shadcn@latest search` to check registries before writing custom UI. Check community registries too. - plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 53
- **Use `asChild` (radix) or `render` (base) for custom triggers.** Check `base` field from `npx shadcn@latest info`. → [base-vs-radix.md](./rules/base-vs-radix - plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 78
- **Never decode or fetch preset codes manually.** Pass them directly to `npx shadcn@latest init --preset <code>`. - plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 156
Run `npx shadcn@latest docs <component>` to get the URLs for a component's documentation, examples, and API reference. Fetch these URLs to get the actual conten - plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 159
npx shadcn@latest docs button dialog select - plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 162
**When creating, fixing, debugging, or using a component, always run `npx shadcn@latest docs` and fetch the URLs first.** This ensures you're working with the c - plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 166
1. **Get project context** — already injected above. Run `npx shadcn@latest info` again if you need to refresh. - plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 168
3. **Find components** — `npx shadcn@latest search`. - plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 169
4. **Get docs and examples** — run `npx shadcn@latest docs <component>` to get URLs, then fetch them. Use `npx shadcn@latest view` to browse registry items you - plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 170
5. **Install or update** — `npx shadcn@latest add`. When updating existing components, use `--dry-run` and `--diff` to preview changes first (see [Updating Comp - plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 171
6. **Fix imports in third-party components** — After adding components from community registries (e.g. `@bundui`, `@magicui`), check the added non-UI files for - plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 175
- **Reinstall**: `npx shadcn@latest init --preset <code> --force --reinstall`. Overwrites all components. - plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 176
- **Merge**: `npx shadcn@latest init --preset <code> --force --no-reinstall`, then run `npx shadcn@latest info` to list installed components, then for each inst - plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 177
- **Skip**: `npx shadcn@latest init --preset <code> --force --no-reinstall`. Only updates config and CSS, leaves components as-is. - plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 184
1. Run `npx shadcn@latest add <component> --dry-run` to see all files that would be affected. - plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 185
2. For each file, run `npx shadcn@latest add <component> --diff <file>` to see what changed upstream vs local. - plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices/SKILL.md, line 196
npx shadcn@latest init --name my-app --preset base-nova
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Runs commands on your computer
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openai/plugins has 1 more folder with a skill named shadcn. This page shows the lowest-scoring copy.
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'shadcn' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'shadcn' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named shadcn already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/openai/plugins' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'd420d13051bffe4543ed39e30fa46b87148e47dd' -- 'plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices' ~/.agents/skills/'shadcn' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'shadcn' ~/.claude/skills/'shadcn' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
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| 2026-11-07 | d420d13 | 80 |
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Identical copies of this skill exist at:
- zhongjingyun/codex-plugins/plugins/build-web-apps/skills/shadcn-best-practices