React Frontend Skills

Tired of your agent being dumb, especially with React? This skill pack is the solution. It will make your agent even dumber!!!!!!!!! haha, I mean: try it first, then judge. <3 If it works out for you, drop a star.

What is this?

React Frontend Skills is a collection of 18 AI agent skills for the React ecosystem. Drop them into your coding assistant and it starts applying real patterns for performance, UI, testing, data, and architecture instead of whatever it remembered from 2023.

Each skill is a portable SKILL.md folder, usually with detailed references/ or rules/ and often an AGENTS.md index. The layout follows the open agent-skills convention, so it works across major AI coding agents.

Coverage: React 19 and Next.js 16 performance, Tailwind CSS v4 and shadcn/ui, testing with Vitest, Playwright and MSW, data handling with TanStack Query, Zod, React Hook Form and nuqs, plus feature-based architecture.

Quick start

One command installs everything and auto-detects the AI agents on your machine:

npx skills add PyModel/react-frontend-skills --all

Pick specific skills instead:

npx skills add PyModel/react-frontend-skills -s react,nextjs,tailwind

Install at the user level so every project sees them:

npx skills add PyModel/react-frontend-skills --all -g

This uses the open-source skills CLI. No account, no config. Skills get symlinked into your agent's directory and activate when relevant.

Or install from npm

Published as @pymodel/react-frontend-skills. Add it as a project dependency, then sync into your agent:

npm install @pymodel/react-frontend-skills
npx skills experimental_sync

experimental_sync reads the package from node_modules and installs all 18 skills into your detected agent.

Or connect through MCP

The separate @pymodel/react-frontend-skills-mcp package exposes every skill and reference file through read-only MCP tools and resources:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "react-frontend-skills": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pymodel/react-frontend-skills-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

See mcp/README.md for the tool catalog and development details.

Install per agent

Target a single agent with -a <agent>. Use -s '*' for all skills and -g for a global install.

Every skill ships a standard SKILL.md, and many also include an AGENTS.md index. Agents that read local instruction files can consume those directly, no CLI required:

# Clone once
git clone https://github.com/PyModel/react-frontend-skills.git

# Point your agent at the skills directory, or copy what you need
cp -r react-frontend-skills/skills/react   ./.agent/skills/
cp -r react-frontend-skills/skills/nextjs  ./.agent/skills/

Then reference skills/<name>/SKILL.md from your agent context, plus AGENTS.md where present. This is the path for Pythinker and custom in-house agents.

The skills CLI 1.5.23 supports 77 agents, among them Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Pi, Kiro CLI, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Cline, Roo, Goose, Kilo, Droid, Antigravity, Trae, Warp, Zed, Continue, and Qwen Code. Run npx skills add PyModel/react-frontend-skills with no agent flag and it detects yours.

Skills included

Audited version baseline

This repository contains guidance, not runtime dependencies. The last maintenance pass was checked on 2026-08-20 against these package and documentation lines:

If your project pins a different version, trust that version's official docs over this baseline.

Core framework

UI and styling

Data and state

Testing

Architecture and practices

Why

Source-grounded

Every skill is built from official documentation and patterns that held up in production work, not recycled generic advice.

Prioritized by impact

Actionable rules

Each rule spells out the correct pattern with code, the anti-pattern to avoid, the reason behind it, and how to apply it.

Project structure

react-frontend-skills/
├── mcp/                       # Publishable read-only MCP server
├── skills/
│   ├── react/                # React 19 patterns
│   ├── nextjs/               # Next.js 16 App Router
│   ├── typescript/           # TypeScript optimization
│   ├── tailwind/             # Tailwind CSS v4
│   ├── shadcn/               # shadcn/ui components
│   ├── tanstack-query/       # Data fetching and caching
│   ├── react-hook-form/      # Form handling
│   ├── zod/                  # Schema validation
│   ├── nuqs/                 # URL state management
│   ├── vitest/               # Unit testing
│   ├── playwright/           # E2E testing
│   ├── msw/                  # API mocking
│   ├── tdd/                  # TDD methodology
│   ├── feature-arch/         # Feature architecture
│   ├── ui-design/            # UI and UX practices
│   ├── vercel-composition-patterns/
│   ├── vercel-react-best-practices/
│   └── web-design-guidelines/
├── README.md
├── LICENSE
└── CHANGELOG.md

Every skill folder contains SKILL.md. Most include a references/ or rules/ directory, many include an AGENTS.md index, and some include metadata.json. SKILL.md links the files that belong to that skill.

Usage

Once installed, skills activate when your agent picks up a matching task:

// "Create a Next.js page with data fetching"  → nextjs, react, tanstack-query
// "Build a form with validation"              → react-hook-form, zod, shadcn
// "Write tests for this component"            → vitest, tdd, msw

You can also read the guidelines yourself:

cat skills/react/SKILL.md
cat skills/nextjs/references/cache-use-cache-directive.md

Contributing

Contributions are welcome.

1. Fork the repo
2. Add a skill folder under skills/your-skill/ with SKILL.md and any supporting references/, rules/, or metadata it needs
3. Open a pull request

Improving an existing skill counts just as much. New rules, corrections, version bumps: open a PR.

License

MIT, 2026 Mohamed Elkholy. See LICENSE.