pick-ui-library SKILL.md skillA

pick-ui-library from jaimejunr/claude-code-frontend-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jaimejunr/claude-code-frontend-skills/pick-ui-library@git:20261004.e37b84a

Pins git:20261004.e37b84a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
jaimejunr/claude-code-frontend-skills
Path
plugins/emil-design-eng/skills/pick-ui-library/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261004.e37b84a, committed Oct 4, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 26, 2026
Size
4,796 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

Use ONLY when the user asks which library to use, or when the frontend-stack router delegates a library pick. Picks the right library for a frontend task from a curated, opinionated list: numbers, OTP inputs, charts, command menus, virtualization, drag and drop, toasts, state, styling, and more.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Picking The Right Library

## Initial Response

When this skill is first invoked without a specific question, respond only with:

> I'm ready to pick the right library for your task, my picks come from Emil Kowalski's curated list.

Do not provide any other information until the user asks a question.

A lookup skill. When invoked with a task ("I need toasts", "what should I use for drag and drop?"), match the task to the curated list below and recommend the library. These are deliberate, taste-driven picks — don't substitute alternatives outside this list unless the user asks for one or the task genuinely isn't covered.

## How to use this

1. **Identify the task**, not the library the user named. "I need to show a dropdown" is a UI-primitives task (base-ui), even if they asked about something else.
2. **Check what's already installed.** Look at `package.json` first. If the project already uses a listed library, use it. If it uses a competitor (e.g. react-window instead of Virtuoso), flag the recommendation but don't churn the dependency without being asked.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jaimejunr/claude-code-frontend-skills/pick-ui-library@sha256:73c9cc07bc44b587

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261004.e37b84a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_jfwj63h777opj6vh.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jfwj63h777opj6vh)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 26, 2026 and Oct 4, 2026, about one every 9 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261004.e37b84a latest2026-10-04 e37b84a 4,796 BA view · diff
git:20260926.5e88edf2026-09-26 5e88edf 4,790 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4796 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

jaimejunr/claude-code-frontend-skills · 3 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jfwj63h777opj6vh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jaimejunr/claude-code-frontend-skills/pick-ui-library
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/73c9cc07bc44b5873df80bb5d5351121a45f9f0fa499d39f9b7d810d49eab854

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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