A while back I wrote about opening material-kit-react without a build . Step one of that post was "clone it first, then point Studio at the folder."

Forget step one. You do not need the clone any more. And you do not need it for that template in particular, because it is one of the six we ship ready to open.

This post is about the general case: some repo you found, that we have never heard of.

The box

Go to Community Templates . There are two fields: Owner and Repository .

Type them in. Or paste the whole GitHub address and let it split itself.

Try cruip and tailwind-dashboard-template if you want something to hand. You get a link back:

https://studio.crossui.com/app/sandbox/github~<owner>~<repo>/

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That is the whole format. Owner and repo, separated by ~ . You can write it by hand once you have seen it. Want a branch? github~owner~repo@my-branch .

Open the link. The project renders.

What actually happens

No clone. No npm install .…