Stageshow: have your agent build faux product UI that reads as real

The feature ships, and the landing page still needs an image that explains how it works: real screenshots are too dense, and image models invent buttons that don’t exist. Stageshow, recommended by GitHub Daily on November 4, 2026, is Benji Taylor’s answer — an open-source skill in his 1,585-star benjitaylor/skills repo that has your agent build faux product UI in React that reads as the real thing: stills, feature cards, cursor-driven demo animations and bento grids, with composition and motion guidance baked in, plus filming tools that capture the result so the agent can critique its own work.

Core features

• Four output types: product stills, feature cards, cursor demo animations and bento grids, all built as React code whose controls look production-real.
• Composition and motion rules: the skill ships guidance on element placement and flow design, so the agent follows a method instead of improvising a screen.
• A kit to copy from: bundled component kit and examples mean a batch of new images is a copy-paste and recolor away.
• Agent self-review: built-in filming tools record the render and feed it back for the agent to check against the brief.
• Product-independent: the faux UI never binds to your real screenshots, so the illustration doesn’t expire when the feature ships.

Typical use cases

• Landing pages and launch assets: a hero image that walks through the flow, cleaner than screenshots and more accurate than freehand AI art.
• App-store and social variants: one scene re-rendered at multiple sizes, ready to pair with layout skills like guizang-social-card-skill for a full publish set.
• Docs and tutorials: every step of a cursor demo is code — change one step, re-render, no re-recording.

Quick start

npx skills add benjitaylor/skills --skill stageshow

Then brief the agent — “a cursor demo clicking the export button on the export screen” — and it builds the scene, renders and self-reviews. Full documentation lives at benji.org/stageshow.

Summary

Stageshow fits developers and product teams making launch art, landing imagery and demo animations; situations that need your actual UI pixels (a customer demanding real screenshots) are out of scope — the whole point is illustration that reads real without being your product. Facts and limits: the repo root carries no unified LICENSE file — each skill, stageshow included, ships its own license and third-party asset notices, so read stageshow/SKILL.md before commercial use; the skill lives inside the benjitaylor/skills collection and installs alone; the React output is your code, produced through an agent image pipeline. We’ve covered ux-ui-agent-skills, which gates real agent-built UI, and unslop, which de-AI-ifies it — Stageshow handles the third sibling, the illustrated interface that only pretends to be one.