Research: better-auth-best-practices
Cached research evidence for better-auth-best-practices (not authority).
Purpose
Section titled “Purpose”better-auth-best-practices provides authoritative configuration guidance for Better Auth (server/client setup, database adapters, sessions, plugins, environment variables, email flows, security, hooks, and client usage). The skill instructs agents to always consult the official better-auth.com/docs and re-run the @better-auth/cli after plugin changes. It is triggered by mentions of Better Auth, betterauth, auth.ts, or TypeScript auth setup needs.
Harness Coverage
Section titled “Harness Coverage”Target agents: antigravity, claude-code, codex, crush, cursor, gemini-cli, github-copilot, grok, opencode. The skill surfaces setup workflows, env-var requirements, adapter patterns, plugin import paths, and common gotchas for auth integration tasks.
Trust And Risks
Section titled “Trust And Risks”install-now-after-trust-gate / curated-trust-gated. Official source from the better-auth organization. The skill itself is documentation-only (no execution surface beyond advising CLI usage). Risks are limited to following guidance that affects authentication security posture (secrets, CSRF, rate limiting, session storage). Prefer this over community copies per the curated notes. Review any generated auth.ts and migration steps.
Install Prerequisites
Section titled “Install Prerequisites”npx skills add better-auth/skills --skill better-auth-best-practices -y -g -a antigravity claude-code codex crush cursor gemini-cli github-copilot grok opencode
Depends on npm install better-auth and running the Better Auth CLI for schema generation/migrations in the consuming project.
Upstream Maintainer
Section titled “Upstream Maintainer”better-auth (https://github.com/better-auth/skills and https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth). Docs: https://better-auth.com/docs
Comparable Alternatives
Section titled “Comparable Alternatives”Framework-native auth (NextAuth/Auth.js, Clerk, Supabase Auth, Lucia) skills or local architecture patterns when the project has already chosen a different provider.
> Evidence gathered from public GitHub sources (raw SKILL.md) and better-auth.com/docs. Not an endorsement or authority; review generated code and security configuration for the target application.