Showcase
Deprecated predecessor to Spectra for development-time screenshots, short clips, and web walkthrough assets.
Install
claude plugin marketplace add tyroneross/RossLabs-AI-Toolkit
claude plugin install showcase@rosslabs-ai-toolkitThe Problem
Shipping a feature and writing about it are two jobs. By the time the feature is done, the clean “before” state is gone and the reviewer-friendly screenshot lives only in your head. Showcase solved the first version of that problem by saving screenshots, short clips, and web walkthrough captures during development.
What I Built
Showcase is the legacy capture plugin that preceded Spectra. It is useful for accessing or migrating existing .showcase/ assets, but new screenshot and demo capture work should use Spectra.
Impact
The important status is the migration path. Showcase is deprecated in favor of Spectra, which keeps the content-capture mission but adds cross-platform capture, smart framing, discovery, and a tagged library. Showcase remains documented so older captures can still be found and migrated instead of becoming dead local files.
How It Works
Claude Code hooks call Showcase MCP tools at opportune moments: after a UI file edit, when a flow completes, or when a test passes. Each capture carries file, feature, and component context from the current conversation, then writes to a local .showcase/ library. The finder retrieves assets by tag, feature, date, or free text.