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Use when designing or reviewing reusable Jetpack Compose component APIs with modifier parameters, root layout placement, caller-provided variable content, primitive content parameters, optional content, or boolean shape flags.

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  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
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Use when designing or reviewing reusable Jetpack Compose component APIs with modifier parameters, root layout placement, caller-provided variable content, primitive content parameters, optional content, or boolean shape flags.

SKILL.md

compose-component-design.SKILL.md
name: compose-component-design
description: Use when designing or reviewing reusable Jetpack Compose component APIs with modifier parameters, root layout placement, caller-provided variable content, primitive content parameters, optional content, or boolean shape flags.

Compose component design

Core principle

Make reusable components caller-placeable and caller-composable: the component owns its invariant structure while callers retain placement, content, and policy choices that vary by use.

Procedure

1. State the requested API concern and keep the edit within it. A focused slot review does not authorize unrelated modifier, naming, or cleanup changes. 2. State the component's invariant visual structure and identify every varying region, placement concern, and policy choice. When the request names more than one of those concerns, report each one; do not stop after the first valid modifier or slot finding. 3. When root placement is part of the requested work or a broad component API design, accept and apply a caller modifier at the component root unless a concrete API boundary makes another placement correct. 4. Represent caller-controlled, unconstrained visual regions with slots rather than proliferating primitive content parameters or Boolean shape flags. Keep semantic and design-system constraints as primitive parameters. 5. Keep simple conditional structure inline; extract only a coherent reusable contract. 6. Read the relevant focused reference below before editing public signatures. 7. Finish with no edit when the existing API already satisfies the requested concern. Otherwise finish when callers can position the component, supply variable content, and understand ownership without hidden switches.

Topic router

| Signal | Read | |---|---| | Modifier parameter, root layout placement, modifier ordering, or conditional layout wrappers | [Modifier and layout](references/modifier-layout.md) | | Caller-controlled variable visual regions, optional content, primitive content parameters, or Boolean shape flags | [Slot APIs](references/slot-apis.md) | | Animation belongs to the public component contract | [Compose animations](../compose-animations/SKILL.md) | | State ownership changes while designing the component | [Compose state and effects](../compose-state-and-effects/SKILL.md) | | Semantics or screenshot coverage is needed | [Compose UI testing patterns](../compose-ui-testing-patterns/SKILL.md) |

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