Shiki
Beautiful syntax highlighter powered by TextMate grammars with superior accuracy.
Markdown, editors and content npm MIT
Used in agent projects
89
0.7% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#9 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
24.9M
npm, last 7 days, shiki
GitHub stars
13.9K
last push Oct 1, 2026
How Shiki is used
Shiki is a dependency in 89 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.7%), #9 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use clsx (73.0%), Tailwind Merge (69.7%), Zod (68.5%).
Often used with Shiki
| clsx | 73.0% of Shiki projects · 4.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| Tailwind Merge | 69.7% of Shiki projects · 4.1× more than average |
| Zod | 68.5% of Shiki projects · 4.0× more than average |
| Class Variance Authority | 61.8% of Shiki projects · 4.4× more than average |
| Lucide React | 67.4% of Shiki projects · 3.4× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 84.3% of Shiki projects · 2.4× more than average |
| next-themes | 48.3% of Shiki projects · 5.5× more than average |
| Radix UI | 48.3% of Shiki projects · 4.0× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 1.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 1.4% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.9% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 2.4% of projects set up for it |
| OpenCode | 2.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Shiki as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install shiki |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (53), TypeScript / JavaScript (32), PHP (3), Rust (1) |
| Example projects | wesbos/wesbos, Hyk260/PureChat, 1600822305/AetherLink, cin12211/orca-q, sourcegraph/docs |
Alternatives to Shiki
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| react-markdown npm React component for rendering markdown with customizable component handling. |
360 (2.8%) | 37.2M | 15.9K | MIT |
| remark-gfm npm Remark plugin adding GitHub Flavored Markdown support for tables and strikethrough. |
288 (2.3%) | 44.5M | 1,249 | MIT |
| Jinja2 pypi Fast and expressive template engine for Python with powerful flexibility. |
175 (1.4%) | 145M | 11.8K | — |
| Marked npm Fast, efficient markdown parser for converting markdown to HTML. |
148 (1.2%) | 83.8M | 37.2K | MIT |
| React Syntax Highlighter npm React component for syntax highlighting code with Prism.js or Highlight.js. |
110 (0.9%) | 7.8M | 4,674 | MIT |
| gray-matter npm Parser extracting YAML/JSON front matter from markdown and text files. |
106 (0.8%) | 10.6M | 4,490 | MIT |
| Tiptap npm Headless Vue/React rich text editor framework with customizable extensions. |
105 (0.8%) | 18.7M | 38.7K | MIT |
| Pygments pypi Syntax highlighting library for code in Python supporting hundreds of programming languages. |
97 (0.8%) | 239M | 2,213 | — |