# UI Daisyui Foundation

> Use when porting daisyUI's Tailwind-plugin machinery — plugin entry registries with include/exclude algebra, theme injection ladder over CSS-variable tokens, cascade-layer specificity ladders, hand-rolled CSS selector prefix scanning, responsive breakpoint-variant generation, and the wrapper-sandwich Tailwind compile-and-extract API.

- Skill: `ryan-brosas/ui-daisyui-foundation` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 9 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add ryan-brosas/ui-daisyui-foundation`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/ryan-brosas/ui-daisyui-foundation/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Web & Frontend
- Author: ryan-brosas (https://skillmd.com/u/ryan-brosas)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/ryan-brosas/ui-daisyui-foundation

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# ui-daisyui: Tailwind CSS plugin & build kernel

## Foundation contract

This is a cold, source-specific foundation, not an operational procedure. It is
historical, revision-pinned evidence rather than timeless guidance. Current
project source, tests, requirements, and runtime behavior outrank this
projection and decide what ships.

## Provenance and revision

- Source record: `ui-daisyui`; portable upstream identity, license, coverage caveats, and retrieval history are preserved in the index.
- Recorded revision: `master@c6e1800bc15ab0287b8c2b802c126ccee6361beb`.
- Full provenance, coverage caveats, boundaries, and preserved evidence:
  `references/index.md`.

## Topic map

- Representative topics: Plugin entry registries; Theme injection ladder; CSS-
  object layer flattening; Cascade-layer specificity ladder; Selector-prefix
  scanner; Responsive variant pipeline; Wrapper-sandwich compiler.
- Scope and retrieval questions: `references/index.md#use-this-for`.
- Complete capsule chooser: `references/index.md#load-the-matching-source-dump`.
- Detailed grouped map: `references/index.md#capsule-map`.
- Source limitations and portability boundaries: `references/index.md#boundaries`.

## Retrieval

Open the index, choose one capsule matching the active question, and load only
that capsule. Revalidate its cited source and revision before relying on it. Do
not bulk-load the inventory, treat historical claims as current truth, or apply
this foundation as a procedure.