Benji Taylor, head of design at X and SpaceXSI, open-sources Stageshow, an agent skill for realistic faux product UI and animated demos
On Oct 31, Benji Taylor, head of design at X and SpaceXSI, released Stageshow on X: an open-source skill (MIT license) for coding agents that helps them produce faux product UI that looks real, including stills, cursor demo animations, and bento grids, delivered as ordinary React components. It installs with one command, and he says it works with Grok Build, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and others. The launch post drew about 4,500 likes and 6,500 bookmarks. He notes it rarely nails a demo in one shot and most still take a few rounds of feedback.
Key Takeaways
- Install:
npx skills add benjitaylor/skills --skill stageshow; the author says it works with Grok Build, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and other agents (author's post) - Contents: a seven-step workflow in SKILL.md, reference rule docs, dozens of gold examples, a React kit, and self-check scripts such as film.mjs (GitHub)
- License: the stageshow folder is MIT licensed; the repo was created Oct 26 and had about 61 stars at writing time
- Reach: the launch post had about 4,521 likes, 6,561 bookmarks, and 213k views as of Nov 1, 08:00 SGT
- Quality claims are the author's own: the same prompts did better with the skill, but no quantitative evaluation was published
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