# 21st-registry

Publishes React components, CSS themes and templates to 21st.dev, and manages what you already published through the 21st CLI.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1800 installs · ★ 27
- Author: 21st-dev
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/21st-dev/skill/tree/HEAD/skills/21st-registry/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-09
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/21st-registry

## What it does

The skill hands your agent the unified `@21st-dev/cli` (binary `21st`). With it you can push a component to a team library, publish a CSS theme or a template listing, then edit, unpublish or delete your own items. It also covers finding and reopening old components and drafts, plus reading and replacing your public profile page (bento board).

Authentication comes first. Component publishing, inventory, metadata edits and unpublishing accept a `21st login` session or a `21st_sk_…` key. Theme and template commands need a real API key from the 21st.dev settings page, passed via `--api-key`, `TWENTYFIRST_TOKEN` or `API_KEY_21ST`. No key means no theme upload, so get one before you start.

Publishing a positional file path triggers auto-detection: the name comes from the exported component, the slug from the filename, tags from imports, and a demo is found or synthesised. The command then validates dependencies, builds the component, creates a Studio draft and opens CLI Review. The live component stays untouched until that revision passes review and is published. `--private` keeps access inside the team library, and catalog featuring is always a separate `21st submit <slug>` step.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add 21st-dev/skill --skill 21st-registry -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/21st-registry/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/21st-registry/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add 21st-dev/skill --skill 21st-registry -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/21st-registry/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add 21st-dev/skill --skill 21st-registry -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/21st-registry/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install 21st-dev/skill 21st-registry
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/21st-registry/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add 21st-dev/skill --skill 21st-registry -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/21st-dev/skill --path skills/21st-registry
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/21st-registry/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add 21st-dev/skill --skill 21st-registry -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/21st-dev/skill/tree/HEAD/skills/21st-registry/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- push a React component to a team library
- publish a CSS theme or template listing
- find and reopen an old component or draft
- unpublish or delete a published item
- update your public 21st profile page

## Example prompts
- publish this component to 21st
- find my old draft and open it
- make this component private to the team

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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````text
---
name: 21st-registry
description: >-
  Publish your own work to 21st.dev and manage it from the terminal with the
  `21st` CLI (`@21st-dev/cli`): publish a React component to a team library,
  publish a CSS theme or a template listing, edit / unpublish / delete your
  published items, list and reopen existing component work, and read/replace
  your public profile page (bento board).
  Triggers when the user says "publish/share/upload this to 21st", "залей в
  наш регистр", "опубликуй компонент/тему/темплейт", "share with team", "make
  this reusable", "unpublish/edit/delete my component", "change its
  visibility", "find/open my old component or draft", "найди/открой мой старый
  компонент или драфт", "add this to my 21st profile/bento", "update my
  profile page", "обнови мой профиль на 21st", "добавь блок в бенто", "add
  controls/knobs to my demo", "сделай демо с контролами".
  For finding and installing existing items use `21st-cli-use`; for turning a
  project's design tokens into a theme use `21st-design-sync`.
---

# Publish & manage on the 21st registry

Publish components, themes and templates to 21st.dev, and manage what you've
already published, all through the unified `21st` CLI (`@21st-dev/cli`).

## Pre-flight (always)

1. **Authenticate before publishing.** Component publishing, inventory,
   checkout, metadata editing, and unpublishing accept either a `21st login`
   session or a `21st_sk_…` API key. Theme/template commands still require a
   real API key from **https://21st.dev/settings/api-keys**, passed via
   `--api-key`, `TWENTYFIRST_TOKEN`, or `API_KEY_21ST`.
2. The CLI is the unified `@21st-dev/cli` (bin `21st`). Don't reinvent — use it.
3. **Search before publishing** (`21st search "<query>"`) so you don't add a
   duplicate to the library.

---

## Find existing components and drafts

Start here when the user asks to continue or edit old component work:

```bash
21st components
21st components --status draft --scope personal --json
21st open component:123
21st open draft:<uuid> --no-open
```

`21st components` drains both independently paginated collections by default,
so an unfiltered run returns every accessible personal or Team component and
every owned draft. Narrow it with `--status all|draft|published|private` or
`--scope all|personal|team:<uuid>`. Keep the returned stable
`component:<id>` or `draft:<uuid>` reference; do not substitute a slug.

`21st open draft:<uuid>` resumes an editable Studio draft. `21st open
component:<id>` creates or resumes a server-owned CLI Review revision from the
retained published component code and demos. The live component stays
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