Building EmDash Site

by emdash-cms

Building EmDash Site is a Frontend skill for Claude Code, published by emdash-cms in emdash.

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Install Building EmDash Site

Copy Building EmDash Site into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash/tree/main/templates/marketing/.agents/skills/building-emdash-site ~/.claude/skills/building-emdash-site

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: templates/marketing/.agents/skills/building-emdash-site/SKILL.md in emdash-cms/emdash
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/building-emdash-site
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Frontend — 567 skills

What Building EmDash Site does

Building EmDash Site helps you build and customize EmDash CMS sites on Astro. Use it for pages, collections, seed files, Portable Text, menus, taxonomies, widgets, deployment, and other site tasks.

Building EmDash Site is cataloged under Frontend on DirSkills. Building EmDash Site comes from a repository tagged astro, cms, emdash and typescript.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Building an EmDash Site

EmDash is a CMS built on Astro. It stores schema in the database (not in code), serves content via live content collections, and provides a full admin UI at /_emdash/admin. Sites are standard Astro projects with the emdash integration.

Common Gotchas

These are the things that silently break sites. Know them before you start.

Image fields are objects, not strings. post.data.featured_image is { id, src, alt }. Writing <img src={post.data.featured_image} /> renders [object Object]. Use <Image image={post.data.featured_image} /> from "emdash/ui".

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Building EmDash Site

What else does emdash-cms publish alongside Building EmDash Site?
Building EmDash Site is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from emdash-cms/emdash, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API & CLI Bug Reproduction, Adversarial Code Reviewer and Agent Browser. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Building EmDash Site does, and is maintained by emdash-cms in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the emdash-cms/emdash page.
How does Building EmDash Site compare to other Frontend skills?
Building EmDash Site ranks #80 by stars among the 567 Frontend skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Angular Developer, Android Clean Architecture and Accessibility. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Building EmDash Site against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.