Zod v4 best practices, patterns, and API guidance for schema validation, parsing, error handling, and type inference in TypeScript applications. Covers safeParse, object composition, refinements, transforms, codecs, branded types, and v3→v4 migration. Baseline: zod ^4.0.0. Triggers on: zod imports, z.object, z.string, z.infer, safeParse, mentions of "zod", "schema validation", "zod v4", or "z.enum".
Quickly install zod AI skill to your development environment via command line
Source: anivar/zod-skill.
IMPORTANT: Your training data about zod may be outdated or incorrect — Zod v4 introduces breaking changes to string formats, enums, error handling, and recursive types. Always rely on this skill's rule files and the project's actual source code as the source of truth. Do not fall back on memorized v3 patterns when they conflict with the retrieved reference.
Zod is for runtime type validation — parsing untrusted data at system boundaries (API input, form data, env vars, external services). For compile-time-only types, plain TypeScript is sufficient.
| API input/output validation | Zod | | Form validation (React, Vue) | Zod (with react-hook-form, formik, etc.) | | Env var parsing | Zod (with t3-env or manual) | | Compile-time types only | Plain TypeScript | | Smaller bundle (1kb) | Valibot | | Maximum type inference | ArkType |
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npx skills add https://github.com/anivar/zod-skill --skill zodZod v4 best practices, patterns, and API guidance for schema validation, parsing, error handling, and type inference in TypeScript applications. Covers safeParse, object composition, refinements, transforms, codecs, branded types, and v3→v4 migration. Baseline: zod ^4.0.0. Triggers on: zod imports, z.object, z.string, z.infer, safeParse, mentions of "zod", "schema validation", "zod v4", or "z.enum". Source: anivar/zod-skill.
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/anivar/zod-skill --skill zod Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw
https://github.com/anivar/zod-skill