Clerk Skills

Clerk authentication router. Use when user asks about Clerk CLI operations, adding authentication, setting up Clerk, custom sign-in flows, Swift or native iOS auth, native Android auth, Next.js patterns, React patterns, Vue patterns, Nuxt patterns, Astro patterns, TanStack Start patterns, Expo patterns, React Router patterns, Chrome Extension patterns, organizations, billing, subscriptions, payments, pricing, plans, seat-based pricing, feature entitlements, syncing users, testing, impersonating a user, or testing webhooks locally. Automatically routes to the specific skill based on their task.

Operate the Clerk CLI (`clerk` binary) for authentication, user/org/session management, impersonation, local webhook testing, deploy verification, instance config, env keys, feature toggles, and any Clerk Backend, Platform, or Frontend API call. Use when the user mentions Clerk management tasks, "list clerk users", "impersonate a user", "test webhooks locally", "enable orgs", "enable billing", "clerk env pull", "clerk doctor", "clerk deploy", "clerk api", or any ad-hoc Clerk API request. Prefer the CLI over raw HTTP: it handles auth, key resolution, app/instance targeting, and formatting automatically.

Add Clerk authentication to any project by following the official quickstart guides.

Add Clerk authentication to Expo and React Native apps using @clerk/expo. Use for Expo setup, prebuilt native components (AuthView, UserButton), custom sign-in/sign-up flows (email, password, SMS/phone OTP, MFA), OAuth/SSO, native Google/Apple sign-in, Expo Router protected routes, biometrics, and push notifications. Do not use for native Swift/iOS, native Android/Kotlin, or web-only framework projects.

Clerk Organizations for B2B and multi-tenant apps - org switching, roles and permissions, verified domains, and enterprise SSO. Use for team workspaces, RBAC, org-scoped routing, member management. Also load this when a project treats teams, workspaces, tenants, or companies as its customers - shared accounts, inviting teammates, per-seat pricing, per-company data isolation - even when the words "organization" or "B2B" are never used.

Clerk Billing for subscription management - render Clerk's PricingTable and in-app checkout drawer, configure subscription plans, seat-limit plans for B2B, feature entitlements with has(), and billing webhooks. Use for SaaS monetization, plan gating, checkout flows, trials, invoicing, and subscription lifecycle management.

E2E testing for Clerk apps. Use with Playwright or Cypress for auth flow tests.

Clerk webhooks for real-time events and data syncing. Verify with verifyWebhook from the framework-specific package. Handle user, session, organization, billing, and payment events. Build event-driven features like database sync, notifications, and integrations.

React Router v7/v8 patterns with Clerk — rootAuthLoader, getAuth in loaders, clerkMiddleware, protected routes, SSR user data, org switching. Triggers on: react-router auth, rootAuthLoader, getAuth loader, react-router protected route, loader authentication, SSR auth react-router, useNavigate may be used only in the context of a Router.