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Closes SB-2186
Closes SB-2188

What I did

The AI feature of create storybook now installs the Storybook skills instead of @storybook/addon-mcp, and storybook upgrade stops adding the addon too. The skills run on core (storybook tools, storybook skills), so a project set up by an agent no longer needs the addon. Projects that have it keep it.

This also folds the separate skills question and the --skills / --no-skills flags from #36431 (not released yet) into the AI feature, as agreed with Michael on 2026-10-02.

create storybook

• One question, Do you want AI features, like skills and prompts, in your Storybook? (default yes), on frameworks that have, or are getting, a docgen server: React (not React Native), Vue 3 + Vite, Angular-Vite, Svelte and Web Components. Agents, --yes and runs without a terminal get the feature without the question. It is not asked when scaffolding into an empty directory.
• Yes installs the skills. On Vite with React, Vue 3 or Angular, it also does what it did on React + Vite: add the test feature, skip onboarding and print the setup prompt. For Vue 3 and Angular, that part is new. On the other frameworks, yes only installs the skills and onboarding stays.
• Outside that list there are no skills, also not for agents, --yes or --features ... ai; init warns instead. On next, the skills were offered on every framework.

storybook upgrade

• New skills automigration: on the upgrade into 11, projects on a supported framework without the skills are offered them once. It is selected by default and installed with --yes. npx storybook automigrate skills installs them later on a supported framework, for example on a project that is already on an 11 prerelease.
• Installed skills are refreshed to the new version on every upgrade. "Installed" means that skills-lock.json lists storybookjs/skills.
• The addon-mcp automigration and the agentSkills setting are removed.

--skills / --no-skills are removed from both commands. Nothing runs in CI: the install and the refresh are skipped there, and the automigration is not listed. A failed install warns with the command to install the skills later and does not fail the upgrade.

Worth a look

• supportsSkills in storybook/internal/cli is a hardcoded framework list on purpose. Reading the docgenServer flag would need the presets, which are not installed yet when init asks, and which the automigrations do not load.
• The react-vite/default-ts sandbox now lists @storybook/addon-mcp explicitly, so addon-mcp.spec.ts keeps running. The other React + Vite sandboxes, including the bench/ ones, lose the addon.
• Telemetry: no event or field is renamed. Only the source and result values of the unreleased skills payload change.
• Angular: automigrations see the main config from before the upgrade, so skills is also offered where angular-to-angular-vite is offered. It installs only when that migration ran first, and otherwise warns how to install the skills afterwards.

Checklist for Contributors

Testing

The changes in this PR are covered in the following automated tests:

• stories
• unit tests
• integration tests
• end-to-end tests (addon-mcp.spec.ts on the react-vite/default-ts sandbox)

Manual testing

1. Compile: yarn nx run-many -t compile -p core create-storybook cli, then REPO=$PWD.

2. Init a fresh React + Vite project and answer Yes to the AI question:

   cd "$(mktemp -d)" && npm create vite@latest app -- --template react-ts --no-interactive && cd app && git init
   node $REPO/code/lib/create-storybook/dist/bin/index.js --skip-install --disable-telemetry

   Expected: the AI question Do you want AI features, like skills and prompts, in your Storybook? with Yes preselected, and no separate skills question. skills-lock.json exists, addon-mcp is not in package.json or .storybook/main.ts, and the summary prints the setup prompt.

3. Run it again in a new project with --features docs test. Expected: no skills-lock.json and no setup prompt.

4. In the project from step 2, run rm -rf skills-lock.json .claude .agents, then node $REPO/code/lib/cli-storybook/dist/bin/index.js automigrate skills --skip-install --skip-doctor --disable-telemetry. Expected: the skills are installed again, and a second run finds nothing to do. automigrate --list shows skills and no addon-mcp.

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• Add or update documentation reflecting your changes
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  MIGRATION.MD

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Walkthrough

The CLI separates AI feature availability from AI setup availability. Shared logic detects and installs Storybook skills during creation and upgrades. Upgrades add a skills automigration. Addon MCP is removed from AI feature selection and automigration, and added to the React Vite template.

Changes

AI features and Storybook skills

Layer / File(s)	Summary
AI availability and creation flow code/core/src/cli/installSkills.ts, code/lib/create-storybook/src/initiate.ts, code/lib/create-storybook/src/commands/UserPreferencesCommand.ts, code/lib/create-storybook/src/services/FeatureCompatibilityService.ts, code/lib/create-storybook/src/generators/types.ts, code/lib/create-storybook/src/bin/run.ts, code/lib/cli-storybook/src/sandbox.ts, code/lib/create-storybook/src/commands/UserPreferencesCommand.test.ts, code/lib/create-storybook/src/initiate.skills.test.ts, code/lib/create-storybook/src/services/FeatureCompatibilityService.test.ts, docs/api/cli-options.mdx	Creation checks AI feature and setup availability separately. Users can select AI when setup is unavailable, but setup instructions remain gated by setup availability. The --skills and --no-skills options are removed, and the feature documentation describes AI options.
Skills detection and installation code/core/src/cli/installSkills.ts, code/core/src/cli/globalSettings.ts, code/core/src/cli/installSkills.test.ts, code/lib/create-storybook/src/services/TelemetryService.test.ts	The installer detects supported AI features and Storybook skills in skills-lock.json. It accepts a source and optional stdio, skips in CI, and reports installation results without prompting or saving remembered settings.
Upgrade refresh and automigration code/lib/cli-storybook/src/automigrate/fixes/skills.ts, code/lib/cli-storybook/src/automigrate/fixes/index.ts, code/lib/cli-storybook/src/upgrade.ts, code/lib/cli-storybook/src/bin/run.ts, code/lib/cli-storybook/src/automigrate/fixes/skills.test.ts, code/lib/cli-storybook/src/upgrade.skills.test.ts, docs/api/cli-options.mdx	The skills automigration checks the upgrade version, framework, CI state, and existing skills. The upgrade flow refreshes skills that were present before automigrations, except during dry runs. The upgrade --skills and --no-skills options are removed.
Addon MCP configuration code/lib/cli-storybook/src/automigrate/fixes/addon-mcp.ts, code/lib/cli-storybook/src/automigrate/fixes/addon-mcp.test.ts, code/lib/create-storybook/src/services/AddonService.ts, code/lib/cli-storybook/src/sandbox-templates.ts	The Addon MCP automigration and its tests are removed. AI feature selection no longer adds Addon MCP. The React Vite TypeScript template adds Addon MCP as a development dependency and to its configured addons list.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Initiate as doInitiate
  participant Preferences as UserPreferencesCommand
  participant Installer as installSkills
  participant PackageManager
  participant Finalization
  Initiate->>Preferences: pass AI feature and setup availability
  Preferences-->>Initiate: return selected features
  Initiate->>Installer: install skills when Feature.AI is selected
  Installer->>PackageManager: run skills install command
  Initiate->>Finalization: pass AI setup instruction visibility

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code/lib/create-storybook/src/initiate.skills.test.ts (1)

28-28: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use spy-enabled mocks for every mocked module.

The telemetry and generators mocks omit { spy: true }. The common-module factory also omits it and needs a spy-enabled replacement approach. As per coding guidelines, “Use vi.mock() with the spy: true option for all package and file mocks.”

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Review comment at @code/lib/create-storybook/src/initiate.skills.test.ts at line
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Update the `vi.mock()` calls for telemetry, generators, and the common module in
the test to use spy-enabled mocks, including replacing the common-module factory
approach. Preserve the existing mocked-module behavior while applying `spy:
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code/lib/create-storybook/src/commands/UserPreferencesCommand.test.ts (1)

409-410: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Place new mock behaviors in beforeEach. These sites configure mock return values in test cases or a top-level factory.

• code/lib/create-storybook/src/commands/UserPreferencesCommand.test.ts#L409-L410: move the AI-acceptance prompt values into a case-specific beforeEach.
• code/lib/create-storybook/src/commands/UserPreferencesCommand.test.ts#L430-L433: move the minimal-install prompt values into a case-specific beforeEach.
• code/lib/create-storybook/src/initiate.skills.test.ts#L34-L34: configure the cache mock behavior in beforeEach.
• code/lib/create-storybook/src/initiate.skills.test.ts#L42-L42: configure the preferences mock behavior in beforeEach.
• code/lib/create-storybook/src/initiate.skills.test.ts#L103-L103: configure the alternate framework result in a case-specific beforeEach.

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relevant beforeEach blocks. In UserPreferencesCommand.test.ts, configure the
AI-acceptance prompts at lines 409-410 and minimal-install prompts at lines
430-433 in their respective case-specific beforeEach blocks. In
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- Around line 409-410: Move mock return-value configuration out of individual
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- Line 28: Update the `vi.mock()` calls for telemetry, generators, and the
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@coderabbitai On the nitpicks: the telemetry and generators mocks stay automocked on purpose, because { spy: true } would run the real telemetry and generators for every export the tests do not stub. The per-test mockResolvedValueOnce calls are the prompt answers and one-off overrides of that single test, and match the rest of UserPreferencesCommand.test.ts, so they stay in the tests.

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@kasperpeulen Thanks for the guidance. I checked the tests and withdraw both nitpicks.

• The telemetry and generators automocks prevent unstubbed exports from running real implementations. Switching to { spy: true } would weaken that isolation.
• The per-test mockResolvedValueOnce calls define scenario-specific answers and overrides. They match the existing pattern in UserPreferencesCommand.test.ts, which resets the prompt mocks between tests.

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Learnt from: kasperpeulen
URL: https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/36561

Timestamp: 2026-10-04T14:13:57.570Z
Learning: In Storybook's TypeScript/Vitest tests, code/lib/create-storybook/src/initiate.skills.test.ts intentionally automocks storybook/internal/telemetry and ./generators/index.ts, and code/lib/cli-storybook/src/upgrade.skills.test.ts intentionally automocks storybook/internal/telemetry. Do not recommend replacing these automocks with { spy: true }, because unstubbed exports would run real telemetry or generator implementations.

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URL: https://github.com/storybookjs/storybook/pull/36561

Timestamp: 2026-10-04T14:13:57.570Z
Learning: In code/lib/create-storybook/src/commands/UserPreferencesCommand.test.ts, per-test mockResolvedValueOnce calls intentionally define scenario-specific prompt answers and one-off overrides. Keep these calls in their tests rather than moving them into shared setup. This is the established TypeScript/Vitest test pattern in this file; prompt mocks are reset between tests.

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