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Design clean, composable React/Vue component APIs with accessibility built in. Use when designing or reviewing a component's props, composition, events or accessibility, or when a component API has grown hard to use.

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# Component API Design

Use this skill to design the public API of a UI component before writing
implementation. A good API is learnable, hard to misuse, and composable.

## Principles

1. **Make the common case effortless, the complex case possible.**
2. **Prefer composition over configuration** - slots beat boolean explosions.
3. **The prop name is documentation** - it should read aloud as English.
4. **Accessibility is not a prop** - it is the default behavior.

## Step 1: Name the responsibilities
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