vue-best-practices

Agent skills that teach AI coding agents current Vue 3 patterns, validated with automated evals.
Maintained by Pythoughts-labs.

Install - MCP server - Skills - How it works - Contributing

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Install

Add the skills to any agent that supports the skills registry:

npx skills add Pythoughts-labs/vue3-best-practices

Claude Code marketplace

# Add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add Pythoughts-labs/vue3-best-practices

# Install everything at once
/plugin install vue-skills-bundle@vue3-best-practices

# Or install individual skills
/plugin install vue-best-practices@vue3-best-practices
/plugin install vue-best-practices@vue3-best-practices vue-router-best-practices@vue3-best-practices

Trigger reliably

Prefix a prompt with use vue skill so the agent loads the patterns before coding:

Use vue skill, build a todo list with filtering

Without the prefix, triggering depends on how closely the prompt matches a skill's description keywords.

MCP server

For agents that consume MCP instead of the skills registry, mcp/ exposes every skill as MCP tools. The agent calls vue_best_practices when it detects Vue work, then pulls individual reference files on demand.

cd mcp && npm install

Then register the server. Replace <REPO> with the absolute path to this clone.

Claude Code

claude mcp add vue-skills -- node <REPO>/mcp/index.mjs

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vue-skills": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["<REPO>/mcp/index.mjs"]
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vue-skills": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["<REPO>/mcp/index.mjs"]
    }
  }
}

Any MCP client (generic stdio)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vue-skills": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["<REPO>/mcp/index.mjs"],
      "env": { "VUE_SKILLS_DIR": "<REPO>/skills" }
    }
  }
}

VUE_SKILLS_DIR is optional and defaults to ../skills relative to the server. Full details and the two tools (vue_best_practices, get_vue_reference) are documented in mcp/README.md.

MCP has no push trigger, so an agent calls a tool only when it judges the description relevant. To guarantee the skill loads on every Vue task, add one line to your agent rules (AGENTS.md, .cursorrules, or CLAUDE.md): "Before any Vue work, call the vue_best_practices MCP tool and apply it."

Skills

Skill	When to use	Covers
vue-best-practices	Vue 3 + Composition API + TypeScript	Reactivity, SFC structure, data flow, composables, SSR, performance
vue-options-api-best-practices	Options API (data(), methods)	this context, lifecycle, TypeScript with Options API
vue-router-best-practices	Vue Router 4	Navigation guards, route params, route-component lifecycle
vue-pinia-best-practices	Pinia state management	Store setup, reactivity, storeToRefs, state patterns
vue-testing-best-practices	Component or E2E tests	Vitest, Vue Test Utils, Playwright
vue-jsx-best-practices	JSX in Vue	Syntax differences from React JSX, plugin config
vue-debug-guides	Debugging Vue 3	Runtime errors, warnings, async failures, hydration issues
create-adaptable-composable	Reusable composables	MaybeRef / MaybeRefOrGetter input patterns

create-adaptable-composable is derived from create-agnostic-composable in serkodev/vue-skills.

How it works

Skill types