Agent skill

Manage Theme

by telerik in telerik/kendo-themes

Create a new Kendo UI theme package from scratch or update an existing theme's design tokens, swatches, and component overrides.

No licenceAuto-check passedFrontend & Design

Install Manage Theme

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install telerik/kendo-themes manage-theme --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/.github/skills/manage-theme .claude/skills/manage-theme && 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
manage-theme
GitHub stars
158
Token cost
~2.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
821 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
11
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Create a new Kendo UI theme package from scratch or update an existing theme's design tokens, swatches, and component overrides.

  • Works in 8 steps: Gather requirements → Copy the base theme → Apply design token customizations → …
  • The user wants to create a new theme
  • SKILL.md covers Related skills, When to use, Inputs and Theme package structure, plus 3 more sections
  • Calls npm and npx

What it does

Manage Theme is an agent skill from telerik/kendo-themes. Create a new Kendo UI theme package from scratch or update an existing theme's design tokens, swatches, and component overrides. Handles package scaffolding, core re-exports, swatch configuration, design token changes (spacing, colors, elevation, typography, border-radii), and component-level variable/style overrides. Use this skill when the user wants to create a new theme, change a theme's design tokens, add or edit swatches, or apply broad styling changes across components in a theme.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.7k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

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

When your agent uses it

  • The user wants to create a new theme
  • Change a themes design tokens
  • Apply broad styling changes across components in a theme

Example prompts

  • “/manage-theme”

Requirements

  • Node.js

Workflow steps

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

  1. Gather requirements
  2. Copy the base theme
  3. Apply design token customizations
  4. Validate
  5. Identify what to change
  6. Present change plan
  7. Apply changes
  8. Validate

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d9705b5. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • npm
    • npx

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npm and npx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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

Manage Theme loads about 2.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 126 tokens; SKILL.md has 821 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~126
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.7k

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); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 821 words (~2,704 tokens).

“Create a new theme package or update an existing theme's tokens, swatches, and component overrides.”

— opening of SKILL.md by telerik
name
manage-theme
argument-hint
[theme-name] e.g. new-brand, default, fluent
metadata.internal
true

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .github/skills/manage-theme of telerik/kendo-themes.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d9705b5

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Questions about Manage Theme

What does Manage Theme do?

Create a new Kendo UI theme package from scratch or update an existing theme's design tokens, swatches, and component overrides. Manage Theme is an agent skill from telerik/kendo-themes. Create a new Kendo UI theme package from scratch or update an existing theme's design tokens, swatches, and component overrides.

When should I use Manage Theme?

Manage Theme fits situations like: the user wants to create a new theme; change a themes design tokens; apply broad styling changes across components in a theme.

How do I install Manage Theme in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Manage Theme in Codex?

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

Can I use Manage Theme 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 manage-theme -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/manage-theme, .gemini/skills/manage-theme, .github/skills/manage-theme and .opencode/skills/manage-theme in your project.

What does Manage Theme need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Manage Theme needs the command-line tools its instructions call (npm and npx). Our summary lists: Node.js.

Does Manage Theme access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use npm and npx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Manage Theme 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. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Manage Theme use?

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

How many tokens does Manage Theme 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.

What are the alternatives to Manage Theme?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Manage Theme: Tailwind V4 Shadcn (ever-works/ever-works, 162 stars), Using Ouds Web Version Major Minor (Orange-OpenSource/Orange-Boosted-Bootstrap, 222 stars), Design Token Generator (dylanfeltus/skills, 179 stars) and Glycemicgpt UI Foundation (lumose-health/GlycemicGPT, 141 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Manage Theme?

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.