The Claude Code skill: build Element Node sites with a prompt
The official builder skill is free and open source on GitHub: your AI agent learns the CMS widgets, layout rules and APIs. Paid plans get it always-updated from the panel.
There's a new way to build sites, and it doesn't go through our panel: it goes through your AI agent. Starting today, the official element-node-builder skill is available to everyone, for Claude Code and any coding agent, Codex included — free and open source.
What a skill is
A skill is a package of instructions and tools that teaches an AI agent to do one specific job well. Ours contains the complete reference of all 51 widgets with every setting, the layout rules for sections and columns, a modern redesign playbook, and the scripts to clone existing sites, import blueprints and visually diff the result against the target.
In practice: open Claude Code on your machine and type "clone my client's site onto Element Node" or "create a landing page for a dental practice with hero, services and a form". The agent builds with the CMS's native widgets, respecting brand, layout and the same rules we follow ourselves.
The part that changes everything
The result is not a pile of generated HTML: it's pages made of the same widgets you then edit in the visual editor, element by element. You move fast with prompts; your client gets the Elementor-style editor they've used for years. No lock-in either way: prompt when you need speed, editor when you need control.
Always up to date
The skill is our own daily working tool: every lesson learned in the field — a layout pattern, a widget rule, an edge case — goes into the package. From the customer area you re-download it anytime, always the latest version, installation instructions included.
How to get it
The skill is free and open source: it lives in the skill/ folder of the Element Node GitHub repo, ready to copy into your skills. Paid plans add the convenient channel: you always get the latest packaged version from the CMS panel (Settings → API) or the customer area, with a single terminal command that installs or updates it in one go.