# design-system-importer

This skill turns reference media and brand materials into visual constraints for a video project. Use it to reproduce a style or adapt selected parts of it.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 329
- Author: Orkas-AI
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio/tree/HEAD/packages/skills/design-system-importer/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-13
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/design-system-importer

## What it does

The skill reads images, videos, screenshots, `DESIGN.md`, brand guides, and design notes. It first classifies the requested relationship to each reference: reproduce it, edit the original, or borrow selected principles. Then it records style tokens and defines what must stay intact and what can change.

The result feeds `project/composition/composition-manifest.json#art_direction` and guides hand-authored HTML/CSS/SVG. For web and video references, it accounts for composition, timing, safe zones, and motion; subtitles remain in `tracks.captions.lines`. Inspected material is copied to `project/composition/assets/references/`. With only vague adjectives and no named source, the skill directs aesthetic decisions to `frontend-design` instead.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --skill design-system-importer -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --skill design-system-importer -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --skill design-system-importer -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio design-system-importer
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --skill design-system-importer -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --path packages/skills/design-system-importer
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio --skill design-system-importer -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/Orkas-AI/Orkas-VideoStudio/tree/HEAD/packages/skills/design-system-importer/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- carry a brand guide’s visual rules into a video
- define which parts of a reference must remain unchanged
- map motion from a video reference to project scenes
- adapt a website’s visual language for video

## Example prompts
- Use `DESIGN.md` to extract the visual rules for this video project.
- Treat this screenshot as a reference: preserve its composition and change the palette.
- Map the motion in this video reference to the project’s target scenes.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: design-system-importer
description: Reference-media and design-system input layer for OrkasVideoStudio. Treat reference images, videos, screenshots, brand guides, and design notes uniformly, compiling reproduce/edit/guide intent into executable spatial and temporal constraints.
---

# design-system-importer

Use this when COMPOSE or an AUTO compose segment has external reference media or a style source: an image, video, `DESIGN.md`, brand guide, screenshot, existing website, design notes, or an explicit named visual direction.

Do not use it for ordinary editing, TTS, shot generation, or clip selection. Do not introduce a new user Gate. The output is an internal style extraction that feeds `project/composition/composition-manifest.json#art_direction` and the hand-authored `project/composition/index.html`.

Do not use it for vague adjectives like "modern", "clean", "premium", "dynamic", or "more polished" when no source is named. In those cases, let `frontend-design` choose the aesthetic thesis directly from the video brief.

## Reference Intent Before Input Technique

For every supplied image or video, classify the requested relationship before extracting style:

- `reproduce`: preserve the declared content, identity, composition, structure, style, motion, timing, or audio axes.
- `edit`: use the media as the original, protect unaffected axes, and change only `may_change`.
- `guide`: borrow only declared roles without implying exact fidelity. This is the safe default when intent is unspecified.

Use `intent_basis:"user"` for explicit requirements and `"inferred"` only for a fallback. The contract depends on requested intent, not whether the pixels came from a camera, website, design tool, model, or another authoring format. Copy each inspected source into `project/composition/assets/references/` and reference that stable local path.

Follow the requested `reproduce`/`edit`/`guide` relationship. Preserve user-owned or explicitly authorized assets when fidelity requires them; otherwise respect stated exclusions and ownership constraints. Do not force variation merely to appear original when the user asked to reproduce a source.
Keep extraction small enough to fit inside the design contract. Do not load or recreate unrelated parts of an external design system.

## Extract Compact Tokens

Write a `style_source` object into `project/composition/composition-manifest.json#art_direction`:

```json
{
  "style_source": {
    "source_type": "brand_system | design_notes | reference_media | existing_product | named_reference",
    "source_basis": "file path, user note, or inspected artifact",
    "adaptation_boundary": "what must be preserved, may change, or is excluded",
    "observed_signature": "the concrete geometry, hierarchy, type, palette, and motion behavior seen in evidence",
````
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