@json-render/devtools-react

SkillCloud & infra

Lets your agent add and troubleshoot a React inspector panel for -render apps, showing specs, state, and timelines.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the @json-render/devtools-react skill

About this capability

React adapter for the json-render devtools inspector. Use whenever the user wants to add, configure, or troubleshoot @json-render/devtools-react in a React json-render app, including spec inspection, state editing, action and stream timelines, catalog browsing, or DOM picking.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by vercel-labs/json-render in skills/devtools-react/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

React adapter for the json-render devtools panel. Read skills/devtools/SKILL.md for the shared panel capabilities, props, docking behavior, and server-side stream taps.

Install

npm install @json-render/devtools @json-render/devtools-react

Mount the panel

Mount JsonRenderDevtools inside the existing React json-render provider so it can observe the renderer's state, actions, and streams:

import { JsonRenderDevtools } from "@json-render/devtools-react";

<JSONUIProvider registry={registry} handlers={handlers}>
  <Renderer spec={spec} registry={registry} />
  <JsonRenderDevtools spec={spec} catalog={catalog} messages={messages} />
</JSONUIProvider>;

The component renders nothing in production builds. The panel provides the shared devtools controls, including the Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + J shortcut.

Imperative controls

Use useJsonRenderDevtools from any mounted React descendant:

import { useJsonRenderDevtools } from "@json-render/devtools-react";

const devtools = useJsonRenderDevtools();
devtools?.open();
devtools?.toggle();
devtools?.recordEvent({ kind: "stream-text", at: Date.now(), text: "hi" });

The hook returns null in production or before the component has mounted. Keep server-side stream instrumentation in @json-render/devtools.

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Sep 2026

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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
devtools-react
Source
github.com/vercel-labs/json-render