/suede-interface-explain · Design system

Suede AI Interface Explain Skills Understand what makes the interface work.

Bring an interface question: why a header sticks, how a panel opens, where a filter gets its state, or what controls a responsive layout. The skill traces the existing implementation and explains the causal path with source locations. Browser observations and inferred behavior are labeled separately, and application files stay unchanged.

Read the skill Install options

"Explain this interface and trace the mechanism in the source." /suede-interface-explain The workflow router selects this task when the skill is available.

Follow the mechanism

  • Locate the source entry points and dependencies relevant to the user's question.
  • Trace inputs, event handlers, state transitions, layout rules and rendered output.
  • Cite concrete file locations for mechanism claims.
  • Explain the causal sequence in plain language, using a diagram when it makes that sequence easier to follow.

Know what the evidence shows

  • Source facts describe what the inspected code declares.
  • Rendered observations describe behavior actually seen in the available interface.
  • Inferences identify conclusions that still depend on runtime, data or environment assumptions.
  • Unobserved states stay explicit; source inspection does not earn a rendered visual pass.

Read-only by default

The explanation preserves the existing interface. It does not refactor, rebuild, add a demonstration route or perform live transactions. If source access is unavailable, it can explain observed behavior while identifying the mechanism details that remain uncertain.

The output follows the question's scope. A design review, workbench or implementation is a separate task with its own entry point.

Example request

Use $suede-interface-explain to explain how this filter panel opens, updates the URL and restores its state. Trace the relevant files, event handlers, state and rendering. Keep application files unchanged. Separate source facts, observed browser behavior and inference, and say which parts you could not observe.

Choose the matching task

Suede AI Design Skills reviews task flow and visual hierarchy or implements an authorized design. Suede AI Component Lab Skills builds isolated workbenches for real components and synthetic states. Suede AI Code Skills reviews implementation correctness.

Repository and installation

This documentation-only skill lives under skills/suede-interface-explain/. Keeping it in the repository prepares it for future full-pack distribution; it does not install dependencies or activate the skill globally. Installation into an agent is a separate action.

Install this skill

The repository includes this skill in full-pack discovery. Install a revision containing it to use the new entry point. Claude Code takes two commands the first time and one after that; Codex installs the same pack natively.

terminal · install the pack
Claude Code 
$ /plugin marketplace add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills
$ /plugin install suede-skills@suede
Codex 
$ codex plugin add suede-skills@suede-codex

Cursor, Copilot, and Windsurf install through the skills CLI. Every path is on the install page, and every folder is readable first on GitHub.

Proof is part of the release.

First install takes two commands. After the marketplace is added, install is one. Every skill is plain Markdown.

$ /plugin marketplace add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills → /plugin install suede-skills@suede All install paths