mosaic
DevelopmentWork on Mosaic UI: styling a component with slot recipes (`defineSlotRecipe` / `useRecipe` / slots / variants), or building a flow — authoring a state machine (`setup`, states/guards/`invoke`, wiring to React with `useMachine`/`useActor`/ `useSelector`), writing the controller (Clerk adapter) or view (rendering) layer, testing any of those layers, or migrating a legacy / pre-Mosaic component into the machine / controller / view split. Use when building, styling, debugging, testing, or migrating anything Mosaic. `references/mosaic-architecture.md` (repo root) holds the design-system contract; this skill is the how-to layer.
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Mosaic UI
Two things live under Mosaic, and this skill covers the how-to for both:
- Styled components are authored with slot recipes — one recipe owns a
part's slot identity (
data-cl-slot), variants, state, and appearance cascade;useReciperesolves it and hands back per-slot props to spread. - Flows follow a machine → controller → view split that keeps Clerk resource logic out of visual components and makes behavior testable without a running Clerk app:
machine Pure flow rules: states, events, guards, async invokes, errors.
No React hooks. No Clerk hooks. No Clerk resource objects.
controller Clerk/data adapter: reads Clerk hooks/resources, injects async
effects into machine context, gates permissions, derives view props.
The only layer that may import Clerk hooks or call resource methods.
view Rendering only: receives a snapshot plus explicit props, renders UI,
sends events. No Clerk imports. No data-fetching. No mutations.
references/mosaic-architecture.md (repo root, read by all agents) is the
canonical contract for the whole design system — tokens, theme delivery, the
data-cl-* styling API, slot recipes, appearance/cascade/scope, and the "Flow
and data architecture" section that defines the split. Read it for the what;
this skill is the how-to.
Which reference to read
| You are… | Read |
|---|---|
Styling a component (slot recipes, useRecipe, variants, slots) | references/styling.md |
| Authoring or debugging a state machine, or wiring one to React | references/machines.md → in-tree machine/README.md |
| Writing the controller (Clerk adapter, permissions, revalidate) | references/controllers.md |
| Writing the view (rendering a snapshot, sending events) | references/views.md |
| Testing a machine, controller, or view | references/testing.md |
| Migrating a legacy component into Mosaic (the end-to-end workflow) | references/migration.md |
| Running the parity audit that guards a migration | references/parity-audit.md |
The migration workflow (migration.md) ties the flow references together: it
treats the legacy component as the spec and drives you through the machine,
controller, and view layers, then verifies parity with parity-audit.md.