One reusable skill, many style files. The brains live in one place; the look comes from anywhere you want.
The out-of-the-box library view shows rows of metadata. It is familiar but dense — important information sits buried in a column you have to scroll to find. The video opens with nine wildly different visual treatments of the same list to make this point: nothing about SharePoint forces the view to look like a spreadsheet.
The interactivity is preserved. Even when a library looks like a Bento grid or a blueprint, the underlying data is still the same SharePoint list. Click-throughs, sorting, and metadata edits all work as expected.
The List Styling skill is the must-install piece. It contains the "brains" of how SharePoint applies a visual treatment to a library. You install it once and then point it at any individual style influence — Bento, Blueprint, your own design — and it applies that style.
This is the same composition pattern AI Skills use throughout SharePoint: a skill is a reusable building block, and you compose your own outputs by feeding it different references. You do not have to know SharePoint's internals — you just have to describe the look you want.
Each style file (Bento, Blueprint, whatever you make) is mostly a description of intent — colors, mood, ASCII art sketches, and a row-formatter JSON block. The List Styling skill reads those descriptions and translates them into actual SharePoint formatting.
Generating a new style is direct: drop a reference image into your library, point the skill at one of your existing style files as a model, give it a few words ("technical engineering drawings, everything is blue"), and let it produce a new style file you can apply anywhere.
Buried in every style file is a chunk of row formatter JSON — SharePoint's built-in mechanism for customizing how each row renders. It is incredibly powerful, but few people know it well. The point of List Styling is that you do not have to.
This is why the styles look so different from each other while running on the same platform. Row formatter JSON can pivot a row into a tile, a card, a bar, or a Bento cell. The skill writes the JSON; you describe the vibe.