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Auth0 Agent Skills Now Available: Production-Ready Authentication for AI Coding Assistants

Auth0 Agent Skills are now available, giving AI coding assistants the knowledge to implement Auth0 correctly across any framework

Bharath Natarajan

Senior Product Manager

Feb 26, 2026 • 7 min read

TL;DR: Auth0 Agent Skills are now available, giving AI coding assistants the knowledge to implement Auth0 correctly across any framework. Install in 30 seconds, ask for authentication, and get production-ready code with zero hallucinations: no outdated patterns, no security gotchas — just Auth0 best practices out of the box.

The Challenge: AI Assistants Do Not Know Your Auth Stack

AI coding assistants have transformed how developers work. They autocomplete functions, suggest refactors, and scaffold entire features. But when it comes to authentication, they often fall back on training data from 2019 which leads to outdated SDKs, deprecated patterns, and security anti-patterns that look correct but absolutely aren't.

Ask an AI assistant to "add Auth0 to my React app" and watch what happens:

  • It might hallucinate an API call that hasn't existed since v1.
  • It could recommend storing tokens in localStorage (please don't).
  • It might write custom JWT validation when there is a battle-tested SDK.

The code looks right. It might even run. But underneath, it is a compliance incident waiting to be discovered during your next security audit.

The gap isn't the AI's fault. Auth0's SDKs, security best practices, and framework-specific patterns exist in documentation, GitHub repos, and engineering knowledge. All these formats are great for humans, but LLMs can't reliably query during code generation. Until now.

Introducing Auth0 Agent Skills

Auth0 Agent Skills are structured knowledge modules that teach AI coding assistants to implement Auth0 correctly. Each skill encodes:

  • Framework-specific implementation patterns
  • SDK setup and configuration workflows
  • Security best practices like PKCE, token handling, and session management
  • Common pitfalls and their fixes

When installed, your AI assistant gains immediate access to Auth0's expertise, not as scraped training data, but as structured, queryable knowledge it can apply reliably every time.

Think of Agent Skills as prompt engineering at scale: instead of correcting your AI assistant after it makes mistakes, you give it the right context upfront.

What Is Available Through Auth0 Agent Skills

Auth0 Agent Skills cover the complete Auth0 integration lifecycle across 10 skills and over eight frameworks.

Core Authentication Skills

auth0-quickstart: Framework detection and intelligent routing. Analyzes your package.json, detects React vs Next.js vs Vue, and automatically routes to the correct SDK implementation skill.

auth0-migration: Comprehensive migration guidance for major and custom auth solutions. Includes:

  • Bulk user import with password hash support
  • Code pattern migrations with before/after examples
  • Gradual migration strategies for production apps
  • JWT validation updates for backend APIs

auth0-mfa: Multi-factor authentication patterns including:

  • Step-up authentication with acr_values
  • Adaptive MFA based on risk signals
  • Multiple factor support: TOTP, SMS, Email, WebAuthn
  • amr claim validation for compliance requirements

Framework-Specific SDK Skills

Each skill maps directly to an Auth0 SDK with framework-idiomatic patterns.

Frontend SPAs:

  • auth0-react: React with Vite or Create React App
  • auth0-vue: Vue.js 3 applications
  • auth0-angular: Angular 12+ with route guards and HTTP interceptors

Full-Stack Frameworks:

  • auth0-nextjs: Next.js App Router and Pages Router with server-side session management
  • auth0-nuxt: Nuxt 3/4 with composables and middleware patterns
  • auth0-express: Express.js server-rendered web applications

Mobile:

  • auth0-react-native: React Native and Expo with biometric support and deep linking

Each skill includes real code examples, API reference patterns, and security configurations that our DevRel team actually recommends and not the patterns that accidentally became popular on Stack Overflow in 2018.

How the Auth0 Agent Skill Works

Auth0 Agent Skills implementation takes 30 seconds.

Installation

Choose your preferred method.

Via Skills CLI (fastest):

npx skills add auth0/agent-skills

Via Claude Code Plugins (recommended for teams):

Settings → Plugins → Search "Auth0" → Install

These methods install two plugins: Auth0 Core Skills and the Auth0 SDK Skills. The Auth0 Core Skills provide information on quickstarts, migrations, and MFA. While the Auth0 SDK Skills contain the framework-specific implementations.

Usage

Once installed, your AI assistant has Auth0 expertise baked in. Just ask:

You: "Add authentication to my Next.js app"

AI: Detects Next.js in package.json

  • Consults auth0-nextjs skill
  • Installs @auth0/nextjs-auth0
  • Configures App Router route handlers
  • Sets up environment variables
  • Implements protected routes with middleware
  • Adds session management patterns

The AI doesn't guess. It doesn't hallucinate. It applies Auth0's documented best practices with framework-specific patterns.

Before Agent Skills, an AI assistant might generate the code below while implementing authentication in React SPA (don't do this):

    // Hallucinated code with security issues  
    import jwt_decode from 'jwt-decode';

    function Login() {  
      const handleLogin = async () => {  
        const response = await fetch('https://YOUR_DOMAIN/oauth/token');  
        const { access_token } = await response.json();  
        localStorage.setItem('token', access_token); // XSS vulnerability  
        const user = jwt_decode(access_token);  
        setUser(user);  
      };  
      // ...  
    }

With Auth0 Agent Skills installed, the same prompt generates:

    // Production-ready code with auth0-react  
    import { useAuth0 } from '@auth0/auth0-react';

    function Login() {  
      const { loginWithRedirect, user, isAuthenticated } = useAuth0();

      if (isAuthenticated) {  
        return <div>Welcome, {user.name}</div>;  
      }

      return <button onClick={() => loginWithRedirect()}>Log In</button>;  
    }

    // And in your app root:  
    // <Auth0Provider  
    //   domain={process.env.REACT_APP_AUTH0_DOMAIN}  
    //   clientId={process.env.REACT_APP_AUTH0_CLIENT_ID}  
    //   authorizationParams={{ redirect_uri: window.location.origin }}  
    // >

The difference: The AI now knows to use the right SDK, handle tokens securely via HTTP-only cookies in the SDK, and follow Auth0's recommended patterns.

Framework Coverage in the Auth0 Agent Skills

Auth0 Agent Skills supports major frameworks and platforms:

Platform SDK Skills
React @auth0/auth0-react auth0-react, auth0-mfa
Next.js @auth0/nextjs-auth0 auth0-nextjs, auth0-mfa
Vue.js @auth0/auth0-vue auth0-vue, auth0-mfa
Angular @auth0/auth0-angular auth0-angular, auth0-mfa
Nuxt @auth0/auth0-nuxt auth0-nuxt
Express express-openid-connect auth0-express, auth0-mfa
React Native react-native-auth0 auth0-react-native

Each framework skill includes:

  • SDK installation and configuration
  • Authentication flow implementation
  • Protected route patterns
  • API integration examples
  • Common troubleshooting scenarios.

Impact of Using Auth0 Agent Skills

For Developers: Stop debugging auth implementations that almost work. Your AI assistant now ships correct code on the first attempt, configured exactly how Auth0's documentation recommends.

For Engineering Teams: Consistent patterns across your entire codebase. When every developer's AI assistant has the same Auth0 knowledge, your authentication implementations stop being snowflakes. Code reviews focus on business logic, not "why did you implement login this way?"

For Security Teams: Fewer creative interpretations of authentication. Agent Skills include security best practices by default — PKCE for SPAs, secure session management for server-side apps, proper token handling everywhere. No one is accidentally rolling their own crypto because an AI suggested it.

For Auth0: We are meeting developers where they work. If you are pair programming with Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot, Auth0 is already correctly configured, properly secured, ready to ship.

What Is Next

Agent Skills are infrastructure for AI-assisted development. As AI coding assistants evolve, Auth0's integration will only get better.

Coming soon:

  • auth0-passkeys: Passkeys and WebAuthn implementation patterns
  • auth0-organizations: Multi-tenancy and B2B organization management
  • auth0-token-exchange: Custom token exchange (RFC 8693)
  • auth0-enterprise: PAR, CIBA, RAR, and advanced enterprise features

We are also expanding framework coverage to include mobile platforms (iOS, Android), backend frameworks (Flask, FastAPI, Fastify, Django, Spring Boot), and emerging meta-frameworks.

Resources

Auth0 Agent Skills are open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Contributions welcome.