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Stageshow: polished product UI stills and animations from your agent

A design skill plus a small React kit that teaches your agent to make convincing faux product UI: still images, feature cards, cursor-driven demos and bento grids. It plans the story in a few beats, builds from solid examples, then films the result and fixes what it finds.

In short: A design skill plus a small React kit that teaches your agent to make convincing faux product UI: still images, feature cards, cursor-driven demos and bento grids. It plans the story in a few beats, builds from solid examples, then films the result and fixes what it finds. It is a free skill for people who use Claude Code, Codex or Cursor and want help with motion graphics.

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Agent / toolAccess / costLink
Claude CodePaid Claude plan or APIclaude.com/claude-code
CodexChatGPT plan or APIopenai.com/codex
CursorFree tier + paidcursor.com
GitHub repoOpen source · ★ 634benjitaylor/skills
Stageshow: polished product UI stills and animations from your agent

Image: from the GitHub README, shown with credit.

Reference videos (1)

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Stageshow: one product UI scene, built and animated by an agent thumbnailAPP DEMO0:24

Stageshow: one product UI scene, built and animated by an agent

The author's 24-second demo: a grid of small app moments (a scheduler with Day/Week/Month tabs, a search box, a music player, a revenue chart, app icons) is clicked through by a cursor, with settings changing, tracks switching and numbers updating, all made as faux UI with the skill.

Stageshow@benjitaylor♥ 12.9k

Try it in 60 seconds

npx skills add benjitaylor/skills --skill stageshow

Install command copied from the project README. Check the README for the latest version.

What it does

A design skill plus a small React kit that teaches your agent to make convincing faux product UI: still images, feature cards, cursor-driven demos and bento grids. It plans the story in a few beats, builds from solid examples, then films the result and fixes what it finds.

Stageshow walks the agent through making a product illustration the way a designer would by hand: pick a look, plan the story in a few short beats, start from a well-built example, then build it in React. It covers…

Short excerpt from the README of benjitaylor/skills. Read the full README on GitHub.

Inside the repo

Stageshow

A prompt to try

Use Stageshow to make a bento grid of four small animated cards that show our product's main features, then film it at desktop and phone width and fix anything that looks off.

Written by us so you can reuse it. Replace each [bracket] with your details.

Step by step

  1. Open the GitHub repo and read the Stageshow section, or the author's "How it works" page.
  2. Install it with npx skills add benjitaylor/skills --skill stageshow.
  3. Ask your agent for the illustration you need, for example: make a 6-second cursor demo of our new scheduling screen for the landing page.
  4. To browse the examples, run npm install and npm run dev inside the stageshow folder (Node 20.19 or newer) and open the local playground.

Watch out for

The scenes are illustrations of a product, not your real app, so keep them honest to what the product does. Some bundled app icons and brand logos are not covered by the MIT licence; the NOTICE file lists them, so swap in your own before publishing. Output is React, so it fits best in a React project.

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Common questions

What does Stageshow do?

A design skill plus a small React kit that teaches your agent to make convincing faux product UI: still images, feature cards, cursor-driven demos and bento grids. It plans the story in a few beats, builds from solid examples, then films the result and fixes what it finds.

Which AI agents can use Stageshow?

It works with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. The code is on GitHub at benjitaylor/skills.

Is Stageshow free?

Free & open source (MIT for the skill folder). No account or API key. Runs with the agent plan you already pay for; filming uses Playwright with Chrome on your machine.

How do I install Stageshow?

Run the install command from the README: “npx skills add benjitaylor/skills --skill stageshow”. Check the README on GitHub for the latest version, then follow the steps on this page.

Is Stageshow safe to install?

We read 55 instruction and code files in the repo and found no red flags. That is not a guarantee, so review anything that runs commands on your machine. How to check a skill before you install it →

Sources & credit

All credit to the original authors. We rewrite in our own words and link back. Something wrong? Report it.

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