auth-portal/.cursor/skills/reui/SKILL.md

name, description, allowed-tools, metadata

name	description	allowed-tools	metadata
reui	ReUI design and component rules for React apps on shadcn/ui and Tailwind. Use for any UI work in a project with @reui in components.json or a components/reui folder, and in any shadcn project that asks for data grids, kanban boards, dashboards or full pages: building or restyling pages, forms and tables; colors, theme tokens and dark mode; spacing, typography and layout; animation and hover motion; installing ReUI components, examples, Pro blocks or Motion Icons. Works with the ReUI MCP.	Bash(npx shadcn@latest *), Bash(pnpm dlx shadcn@latest *), Bash(bunx --bun shadcn@latest *)	user-invocable false

ReUI skill version 68f0e6fa91. If the ReUI MCP's get_agent_skill reports a newer version, re-run the ReUI installer in the mode it was installed with to update this skill: get_agent_skill -> install.recommended from the project root, with REUI_GLOBAL=1 before node when this file is ~/.claude/skills/reui/SKILL.md or ~/.agents/skills/reui/SKILL.md (a global install). Cloud/tools-only agents have no local file and always read the latest - they can ignore this.

ReUI

ReUI is an existing design system on shadcn/ui. Keep its look. Generic frontend advice (vary fonts or themes, gradients, page-load or staggered reveals, "2-3 intentional motions", Framer Motion) does not apply here. It ships free components, free c-* examples, Pro blocks and Ultimate Motion Icons through the shadcn CLI; the ReUI MCP finds them and serves their APIs.

Order of authority

1. The installed style (components.json style, baked into components/ui and components/reui): it owns radius, height, padding, shadow and overlay motion.
2. The installed component's variants and props (size, variant, spacing).
3. These rules and the topic files.
4. Other design skills, then your taste: where they disagree with 1 to 3, ReUI wins. Never redefine --ease-out or any Tailwind built-in.

Before you write UI code, write this plan in your reply

1. Surface: operational, marketing or flow.
2. Archetype: 1 from compose.md.
3. Container family: Frame-led, Card-led, or Cards for the KPIs and a Frame for the table.
4. Density: dense (size="sm" on controls that take it) or default.
5. Regions: top to bottom, each with the item that fills it.
6. States: empty, loading and error for each data region.
7. Motion: none, or the 1 entrance.

Then build exactly that plan; if you deviate, say where.

The loop

1. Find: compose_page for a full page, else search with type and component hints.
2. Install: npx shadcn@latest add @reui/<name> --yes, with <name> exactly as a tool returned it (shadcn/ui parts install by bare name: npx shadcn@latest add button --yes).
3. Read the API on your base: components.json style base-nova is Base UI, radix-nova is Radix. Call get_component([...componentsUsed]) once, then install 1 get_examples example and read its files.
4. Adapt: change data, copy and props; keep the structure and classes.
5. Check, after every UI edit, follow-ups included: validate_usage on any name you did not read, the self-checks C1 to C4 in quality.md, anti-patterns.md, get_audit_checklist, typecheck, lint. Hand back in the 5 lines quality.md gives.

Show every item's previewUrl whenever you list, recommend or install it.

Rules that always apply

• Owners: tables data-grid, filtering filters, boards kanban, modals Dialog (destructive confirms AlertDialog), toasts sonner; never hand-roll.
• Color: semantic tokens for meaning; state colors through Badge or Alert variants (@reui/badge and @reui/alert, not shadcn's); raw palette only for categorical identity, always with its dark: pair.
• Contrast: never text-success or text-warning as body text in light mode, and never text-<state>-foreground on a solid bg-<state> fill.
• Shape: no rounded-* except rounded-full, and no shadow-*, h-* or px-* on Button, Input, SelectTrigger, Card or Frame; pick size and variant. A panel is a Card or Frame, never a div with rounded-lg border.
• Spacing: gap-* on the parent, not space-y-*; gap-1 to gap-2 in a row, gap-3 to gap-4 between groups, gap-6 to gap-8 between sections; title to description gap-0.5.
• Type: text-sm body, text-xs meta (controls keep their style's size), font-medium or font-semibold, headings tracking-tight, numbers tabular-nums; nothing below text-xs except illustrative mini-UI.
• Motion: installed components own their motion. Your own code uses transition-colors for hover and press, duration-200 ease-[cubic-bezier(0.22,1,0.36,1)] to reveal, duration-300 with the same curve at most (media hover zoom: 500), and SPRING ({ type: "spring", visualDuration: 0.25, bounce: 0 }) for drag and reorder. At most 1 entrance animation per view (a stagger counts as 1). Animate only transform and opacity, CSS before motion/react, never set state per frame; <MotionConfig reducedMotion="user"> once at the root plus motion-reduce: on CSS, where reduced motion means a calm fade, not nothing.
• Surfaces: prefer 1 container family per screen. With a KPI row and a table, use FramePanels for both, or Cards for the KPIs and a Frame for the table; never a Card inside a Frame or a Frame inside a Card. Icons come from 1 library, the iconLibrary in components.json (on Ultimate, 1 Motion Icon on the primary action is the exception).
• States: each data region has empty (1 action), loading (a Skeleton in the real layout) and error (Retry) states; light and dark work.
• Never invent: never write a prop, variant or @reui/ name you did not read in an api, an installed file or a tool result.

Topics

Always read compose before building a screen, and quality plus anti-patterns at the Check step. Besides those, read only the topic files the task touches, at most 4 (for example color, motion, layout and components).

Installed skill: open the file. MCP only: call get_agent_skill with the topic, or fetch https://mcp.reui.io/skill/reui/<file>.

Topic	File	Read when
compose	rules/compose.md	before building any screen or section
workflow	rules/workflow.md	compose_page, search hints, installing
adapting	rules/adapting.md	changing an installed block or example
components	rules/components.md	data-grid, filters, kanban and the rest
color	rules/color.md	any color, status, chart or dark mode choice
theming	rules/theming.md	the styles, radius, density and sizes
motion	rules/motion.md	any transition, animation or motion/react
layout	rules/layout.md	house defaults, hierarchy, surfaces, states
icons	rules/icons.md	icon imports, Motion Icons
quality	rules/quality.md	the done gate: self-checks, a11y, hand-back
anti-patterns	rules/anti-patterns.md	the Check step: drift pairs, stale habits
registry	rules/registry.md	free vs Pro vs Ultimate, base vs radix
cli	rules/cli.md	components.json, license key, install flags
tools	tools.md	MCP result shapes, errors, quota, commands

Plans

Free covers components, c-* examples, this skill and the MCP (a ReUI account and a daily allowance). Pro adds blocks. Ultimate adds Motion Icons. A plan miss is a normal answer with locked: true; keep building with what the plan covers.