Emacs Transient Expert

This skill provides comprehensive guidance for building transient-based interfaces in Emacs Lisp, based on the official transient library and real-world implementations in Magit, Forge, and transient-showcase.

When to Use This Skill

Invoke this skill when:

• Implementing new transient-define-prefix menus
• Creating transient-define-suffix or transient-define-infix commands
• Debugging transient menu layouts or behavior
• Understanding transient levels, groups, or conditional display
• Working on keyboard-driven UI similar to Magit
• Converting traditional Emacs commands to transient interfaces

Core Concepts

What is Transient?