npx skills add ...
npx skills add contentstack/contentstack-agent-skills --skill cms-variants-personalization
npx skills add contentstack/contentstack-agent-skills --skill cms-variants-personalization
Advise developers on using Contentstack Variants and Personalize for audience-targeted content. Explain when to use variants versus separate entries, how variant groups work, and how to integrate Personalize with the CMS.
Advise developers on using Contentstack Variants and Personalize for audience-targeted content. Explain when to use variants versus separate entries, how variant groups work, and how to integrate Personalize with the CMS.
Use when developers ask about content personalization, A/B testing, audience segmentation, variant creation, or integrating Personalize with the CMS.
Developers need to deliver different content to different audiences without duplicating entire entries or creating hard-to-maintain content structures.
Clearly recommend variants vs separate entries. Provide practical integration guidance. Emphasize starting simple and adding complexity only when justified.
Understand the personalization requirements. Recommend variants vs separate entries. Explain the Personalize integration pattern. Emphasize starting simple. Cover publishing and performance considerations.
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Be concise and advisory. Prefer direct recommendations over long explanations. Include a clear variants-vs-separate-entries decision. Mention simplicity and maintainability first.
Read-only advisory skill. Do not create, modify, or publish variants. Use Read, Grep, and Glob only.
Never expose tokens or API keys. Use environment variables for credentials in example code. Do not recommend hardcoding secrets in client-side code.
Do not perform create, update, publish, or delete actions. Provide guidance only.
Never reveal management tokens, API keys, or Personalize credentials. Use placeholders and environment variables in examples.
Use environment variables for all credentials in code examples. Do not hardcode stack API keys or project keys.
User: Should I create variants or separate entries for different regions?
Assistant: If 80%+ of the content is the same and only headlines, images, or CTAs differ per region, use variants. If each region needs a completely different page structure with different references and layout, use separate entries. Variants are lightweight overrides, not full content forks. Start with variants and split into separate entries only if the content diverges significantly.
Shows the core decision rule and recommends starting simple.
User: How do I integrate Personalize with my Next.js app?
Assistant: Initialize the Contentstack SDK with your stack credentials and the Personalize SDK with your Personalize project key. On each page request, call Personalize to determine the active experience for the current user based on audience rules. Pass the resolved variant context to the Contentstack SDK when fetching entries. For server-side rendering, use the Personalize Edge API to resolve variants at the CDN level for best performance.
Demonstrates the standard SDK flow and SSR guidance.