# extract

Crawls an existing website to extract its design tokens, palette, typography, and UI assets into stardust/current/.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 496 installs · ★ 310
- Author: adobe
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/adobe/skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/stardust/skills/extract/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
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## What it does

The skill audits a live web project and generates a structured snapshot of its interface in `stardust/current/`. It aggregates brand surfaces, detects typography and colors, and writes out `PRODUCT.md` and `DESIGN.md` without altering the target site.

By default, the crawler stops after visiting 5 pages. You can adjust this threshold with `--cap` or remove it via `--all`, control parallel workers using `--concurrency`, and dismiss cookie banners to keep screenshots clean.

Running the tool requires Node 22+, the `impeccable` skill, and project-resolvable Playwright. Global CLI installs fail the runtime ESM check, so Playwright must resolve from the project root or the extraction crashes with `ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add adobe/skills --skill extract -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/extract/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/extract/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add adobe/skills --skill extract -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/extract/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add adobe/skills --skill extract -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/extract/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install adobe/skills extract
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/extract/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add adobe/skills --skill extract -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/adobe/skills --path plugins/stardust/skills/extract
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/extract/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add adobe/skills --skill extract -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/adobe/skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/stardust/skills/extract/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- reverse-engineer design tokens from an existing website
- capture the current UI state before starting a site migration
- generate DESIGN.md and DESIGN.json for the stardust workflow
- inventory site templates, palette, and typography automatically

## Example prompts
- Extract the design system from the site: `/stardust:extract https://example.com`
- Inspect a store section with a custom page cap: `/stardust:extract https://example.com/shop --cap 10`
- Run a full crawl of all brand pages: `/stardust:extract https://example.com --all`

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```text
---
name: extract
description: Crawl an existing website (capped, multi-page) and seed stardust/current/ with PRODUCT.md, DESIGN.md, DESIGN.json, a per-page inventory, and the consolidated brand surface — the captured design system, palette, typography, motifs, and voice of the live site. Use when the user wants to analyze an existing site's design, extract or reverse-engineer its design system or brand, capture design tokens from a live site, import a website as the starting point for a redesign, capture the current state before a migration, or invokes `$stardust extract` (`/stardust:extract` in Claude Code). Trigger phrases include "analyze this site", "extract the design tokens", "capture the brand", "crawl the site", "reverse engineer the design". Not for scraping page data or content for its own sake (it captures design evidence, not datasets), and not for the redesign itself — extraction is descriptive; direction and prototyping happen downstream.
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: Requires Node 22+, Playwright with Chromium resolvable from the project, playwright-cli on PATH, and the impeccable skill (github.com/pbakaus/impeccable) installed alongside stardust.
---

# stardust:extract

Crawl an existing website, parse each page, extract the brand surface,
and produce a stardust-formatted snapshot of the current state under
`stardust/current/`. The output describes what the site **is**; later
sub-commands consume it to decide what it **should be**.

This skill is **descriptive**: it does not invent direction, it does not
critique, and it does not modify the live site. It writes only under
`stardust/current/` and updates `stardust/state.json`.

## Inputs

- `<url>` — required. The origin to crawl. Examples: `https://example.com`,
  `https://example.com/shop`. A path narrows the same-origin crawl to
  that subtree.
- `--cap <N>` — optional. Override the default 5-page cap. The cap
  is intentionally small — a 5-page sample (home + four IA
  pillars/templates) is enough for cross-page brand aggregation,
  system-component detection, and the brand-review HTML; lift it
  (e.g. `--cap 25`) when a deeper crawl is genuinely needed.
- `--all` — optional. Lift the cap entirely; extract every
  discovered page after junk filtering. Equivalent to `--cap 0`.
  Use when the user spontaneously asks for a full crawl.
- `--pages <slug,slug,...>` — optional. Restrict the crawl to specific
  paths (slugs derived per `reference/ia-extraction.md`). Bypasses
  the cap.
- `--refresh <slug>` — optional. Re-extract one page that already exists
  in `state.json`.
- `--single` — optional. Equivalent to `--cap 1`. Useful for testing.
- `--wait <fast|medium|spec|auto>` — optional. Wait strategy per page.
  Default `medium`. See `reference/playwright-recipe.md` § Wait modes.
- `--no-junk-filter` — optional. Disable the default junk-page filter
  in discovery (see `reference/ia-extraction.md` § Filtering).
- `--no-consent-dismiss` — optional. Skip the pre-flight consent /
  cookie banner dismissal (see `reference/playwright-recipe.md`
```
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