CDS Documentation Skill

Goal: Pull CDS documentation into the session so your next edits, recommendations, and API usage are grounded in current docs—not to produce a documentation handout for the user.

Treat fetched pages as source material you have read: internalize props, patterns, imports, and setup constraints, then act (code, refactors, answers) from that understanding. Quote or summarize for the user only when it helps. Keep the actual doc page contents to yourself and only share their contents directly to the user if they ask.

Whether you use the CDS MCP server or fetch the pages yourself with curl is an implementation detail. The use does not need to know your methodology unless they indicated they are debugging this skill.

Ambiguous product requests (e.g. “turn this into tabs,” “make it a card”) after you’ve read the index: if several CDS components could be relevant (e.g. underline Tabs vs pill SegmentedTabs vs TabNavigation), it is acceptable and often better to ask one short, concrete question (e.g. which visual pattern matches their spec) while briefly naming the options and how they differ per the docs. Do not pick one arbitrarily just to avoid asking.