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shadcn/ui

Project-aware guidance for installing, composing, and customizing shadcn/ui.

The editorial verdict

Where it earns its place.

The natural companion when a project already uses shadcn/ui or has decided to adopt it. The skill reads project configuration and uses the project’s component APIs, registry, and styling conventions to guide changes. It is specific to that ecosystem and ships a helper script as well as instructions.

Reach for it when

  • Building a component system around shadcn/ui
  • Maintaining consistent primitives, forms and semantic styling

Think twice if

  • You want an ecosystem-neutral design brief
  • Your project uses an incompatible component architecture

Before you install

Compatibility & contents.

Claude Code
native
Cursor
partial
Codex
native
Gemini CLI
partial
GitHub Copilot
partial
License
MIT
Bundled scripts
Present
Hooks
None found

Native: documented support. Partial: setup or adaptation may be needed. Not verified: the source has not established this fact. “None found” describes the inspected skill, not a security audit. Read the methodology.

Source context

The repository, in numbers.

Stars
127,607
Forks
12,005
Open issues + PRs
1,774
Last repository commit
Nov 8, 2026

Source: GitHub / shadcn-ui/ui. Repository totals may be shared by several skills. Snapshot fetched ; these are not live counts. Check the snapshot date for freshness. Popularity is not a measure of design quality.

Watch the overlap.

No conflicts are recorded. This does not establish that every combination has been tested.