Storybook 11 beta ships official skills for coding agents
New ui-workflow and component-docs skills, plus a headless CLI, let coding agents build, test and document components without a running dev server.
Storybook shipped a beta of version 11 on 9 November, built around letting coding agents work with a component library directly rather than scraping its UI. Two official skills ship with it: ui-workflow guides an agent through building a component, writing its story, testing the result and presenting it for human review, and component-docs lets an agent look up existing components, their APIs, metadata and code examples in a token-efficient format.
A new headless CLI backs both skills.
npx storybook@next tools docs list
npx storybook@next tools docs show --id "your-component-id"Both commands return component documentation without starting a full Storybook instance. The team says cold-start docgen on large projects is around ten times faster than in version 10, and the package itself is 25% smaller. Framework support also picks up a new @storybook/angular-vite builder, better metadata extraction for Svelte 5, and a typed CSF 4 story format.
Why it matters: if you point a coding agent at a component library, this is the first time a mainstream UI tool has shipped first-party skills for that workflow, instead of leaving the agent to guess at your component API from source. Try it with npm create storybook@next.
The caveat: it’s a beta, the full release is due in December, and CSF 3 stories keep working, so nothing forces a migration yet.