Shieldcn
Beautiful README badges, inspired by shields.io and styled like shadcn/ui.
Before anyone reaches your docs, they land on your README, the front door of every open-source project. shieldcn makes that first impression count: badges, charts, headers, and sponsor walls, rendered as real shadcn/ui components. A shields.io alternative.
#Usage
Drop a badge into any README and it renders as a real shadcn Button.
  
#Agent skill
Install the shieldcn-badges skill from skills.sh so your
coding agent can add shieldcn badges, charts, and headers to READMEs:
npx skills add jal-co/shieldcn -a claude-code # installs to Claude Code npx skills add jal-co/shieldcn -a cursor # installs to Cursor
See skills/shieldcn-badges/SKILL.md for
prompt examples and options.
#Star history
Hosted star charts use GitHub's privacy-safe weekly history API. Embed
https://shieldcn.dev/chart/github/stars/{owner}/{repo}.svg for any public
repository, or use .png and .json at the same path.
To commit a light/dark SVG pair to your repo, use the shieldcn starchart GitHub Action:
- uses: jal-co/shieldcn@v1 with: theme: violet pull-request: true
PR mode needs contents: write, pull-requests: write, and permission for
Actions to create pull requests in repository settings.
GitHub Action docs → · action reference
#Sponsors
#Contributors
MIT · Built by Justin Levine · Contribute