Agent skill

Kendo Themes

by telerik in telerik/kendo-themes

DEPRECATED — moved to the kendo-design plugin in telerik/ai-plugins (https://github.com/telerik/ai-plugins).

No licenceAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Kendo Themes

skills CLI
$ npx skills add telerik/kendo-themes --skill kendo-themes -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install telerik/kendo-themes kendo-themes --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/telerik/kendo-themes.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/kendo-themes .claude/skills/kendo-themes && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
kendo-themes
GitHub stars
158
Token cost
~2.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
796 words
Files
14 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
11
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

DEPRECATED — moved to the kendo-design plugin in telerik/ai-plugins (https://github.com/telerik/ai-plugins).

  • Works in 2 steps: Global: Design Tokens → Per-Component: CSS Selector Overrides
  • Tasks that involve CSS and styling
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Installation, Importing the Theme and Customization, plus 4 more sections
  • Runs JavaScript scripts from its folder; calls node and npm

What it does

Kendo Themes is an agent skill from telerik/kendo-themes. DEPRECATED — moved to the kendo-design plugin in telerik/ai-plugins (https://github.com/telerik/ai-plugins). Install that plugin from your agent's marketplace/registry for the maintained version. Kept here temporarily for backwards compatibility; content may go stale. Styling reference for Kendo and Telerik UI components with Kendo theme packages. Relevant for Kendo/Telerik appearance, theme installation, CSS/SCSS token properties and theme customization, design tokens, swatches, Tailwind token mapping, component…

Its SKILL.md is about 2.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 16 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `components.json`, `evals/evals.json` and `references/colors.md`).

It sits in Frontend & Design, covering CSS and styling and Design tokens. It works with GitHub and Tailwind CSS. The repository describes itself as: Monorepo for SASS-based Kendo UI themes.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve CSS and styling
  • Tasks that involve Design tokens

Example prompts

  • “/kendo-themes”

Requirements

  • Node.js

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Global: Design Tokens
  2. Per-Component: CSS Selector Overrides

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 00ae7da. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 2 files in scripts/ (JavaScript), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • node
    • npm

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • telerik.com
    • github.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Kendo Themes loads about 2.7k tokens when it runs, and up to ~10k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 153 tokens; SKILL.md has 796 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~153
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.7k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~10k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 796 words (~2,665 tokens).

“Kendo themes define the styling layer for Kendo and Telerik components: theme packages, design tokens, CSS custom properties, Sass variables/maps, swatches, and component selectors.”

— opening of SKILL.md by telerik
name
kendo-themes

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 13 other files (scripts, references) in skills/kendo-themes of telerik/kendo-themes.

  • SKILL.md
  • components.json
  • evals/evals.json
  • references/colors.md
  • references/components.md
  • references/elevation.md
  • references/iconography.md
  • references/motion.md
  • references/radii.md
  • references/spacing.md
  • references/tailwind-integration.md
  • references/typography.md
  • scripts/get_components.mjs
  • scripts/list_components.mjs

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 00ae7da

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Tailwind Design Systemjh941213/my-cc-harness12510 repos~4.7kAutomated safety check: PassNone

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Questions about Kendo Themes

What does Kendo Themes do?

DEPRECATED — moved to the kendo-design plugin in telerik/ai-plugins (https://github.com/telerik/ai-plugins). Kendo Themes is an agent skill from telerik/kendo-themes.com/telerik/ai-plugins).

When should I use Kendo Themes?

Kendo Themes fits situations like: tasks that involve CSS and styling; tasks that involve Design tokens.

How do I install Kendo Themes in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add telerik/kendo-themes --skill kendo-themes -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/kendo-themes in telerik/kendo-themes) into .claude/skills/kendo-themes in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Kendo Themes in Codex?

Run `npx skills add telerik/kendo-themes --skill kendo-themes -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/kendo-themes in telerik/kendo-themes) into .agents/skills/kendo-themes in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Kendo Themes in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add telerik/kendo-themes --skill kendo-themes -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/kendo-themes, .gemini/skills/kendo-themes, .github/skills/kendo-themes and .opencode/skills/kendo-themes in your project.

What does Kendo Themes need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Kendo Themes needs JavaScript for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (node and npm). Our summary lists: Node.js.

Does Kendo Themes access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. As links in the text: telerik.com and github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Kendo Themes safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Kendo Themes use?

No licence was found for Kendo Themes or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Kendo Themes use?

About 2.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 11k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 7.7k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Kendo Themes?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Kendo Themes: MCP Development (coollabsio/coolify, 63k stars), Tailwind Design System (SuFxGIT/scoutarr, 115 stars), Extract Design (Manavarya09/design-extract, 4.2k stars) and Tailwind Theme Builder (jezweb/claude-skills, 1.1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Kendo Themes?

telerik (a GitHub organization) maintains it in telerik/kendo-themes, which has 158 GitHub stars. The repository holds 11 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: telerik/kendo-themes on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.