# dtcg-tokens

Turn multimodal source material into DTCG tokens, evidence data, and an HTML proof artifact. Use it when token choices need to trace back to inspectable source material and pass visual review.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 303 installs · ★ 2
- Author: Kiren Srinivasan
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/srinitude/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/dtcg-tokens/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/dtcg-tokens

## What it does

The skill works from multimodal source material and produces `<name>.tokens.json`, `<name>.evidence.json`, `<name>.proof.html`, and `<name>.run.json`. Its operations cover token generation, DTCG 2025.10 validation, and assembly of a standalone HTML proof. A valid JSON structure alone does not qualify the token values: the rendered result must also receive visual review.

Mise runs the `token-run`, `token-validate`, and `token-prove` tasks. If Mise cannot run, the skill blocks the operation; calling private implementation files directly is not allowed. Token values must be grounded in located source evidence. The review also treats portrait mobile and landscape tablet layouts as separate contexts.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill dtcg-tokens -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill dtcg-tokens -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill dtcg-tokens -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install srinitude/skills dtcg-tokens
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill dtcg-tokens -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/srinitude/skills --path skills/dtcg-tokens
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add srinitude/skills --skill dtcg-tokens -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/srinitude/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/dtcg-tokens/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- derive DTCG tokens from multimodal source material
- record evidence behind token choices
- validate token structure, values, and references
- assemble a standalone HTML artifact for visual review

## Example prompts
- Generate DTCG tokens from these source files and create the output artifacts.
- Validate the structure and references in `design.tokens.json`.
- Build an HTML proof from `design.tokens.json` and `design.evidence.json`.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: dtcg-tokens
description: 'Use when any multimodal source must become source-specific DTCG tokens with a vision-reviewed standalone proof artifact.'
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Kiren Srinivasan
  version: '0.4.2'
  scope: "user"
---

# dtcg-tokens

## Outcome

Turn inspectable multimodal source evidence into source-specific DTCG 2025.10 JSON, evidence JSON, a standalone HTML proof artifact, and a run record. Start with the full token possibility surface, narrow it with located evidence and material experiments, and accept token values only after current rendered-pixel judgment. Never invent a source, audience, product fact, brand premise, comparison corpus, or proof claim.

## Motivation

A structurally valid token file can still be generic, misleading, inaccessible, mediocre, or visually poor. Deterministic Mise tasks own repeatable mechanics so strong native vision can concentrate on source interpretation, token relationships, creative experiments, human eye, brain, and touch judgment, and final visual acceptance.

## Commands

| Command | Result | Owning task |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `help` | Show inputs, intents, outputs, vision requirements, and claim limits. | `mise run token-help` |
| `generate <inputs>` | Produce `<name>.tokens.json`, `<name>.evidence.json`, `<name>.proof.html`, and `<name>.run.json`. | `mise run token-run -- <args>` |
| `validate <tokens>` | Check DTCG 2025.10 structure, values, names, references, type agreement, and cycles. | `mise run token-validate -- <tokens>` |
| `prove <tokens> <evidence> [sources]` | Assemble, inspect, and read back a source-specific standalone proof. | `mise run token-prove -- <args>` |

Load `examples/help.md`, `examples/generate.md`, `examples/validate.md`, or `examples/prove.md` only through the matching `mise run token-help`, `mise run token-run`, `mise run token-validate`, or `mise run token-prove` operation. Load `examples/failure-global-claim.md` through `mise run evals` only for an absolute uniqueness request.

For package maintenance, load `references/generation-contract.md` through `mise run validate`; load `references/resource-and-experiment-design.md` and `assets/improvement-contract.json` through `mise run improvement-policy`; load `references/use-case-specificity.md` and `assets/use-case-contract.json` through `mise run use-case-policy`; load `assets/invocation-receipt-template.json` through `mise run invocation-policy -- <receipt>`. If Mise is unavailable, return `BLOCKED`; never call a private implementation file directly.

## Package map

| Path | Contains | Load or run when |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `references/` | Conditional token procedures, decisions, and visual review methods. | Load the exact relative path returned by `mise run token-packet -- <args>`. |
| `assets/` | DTCG schemas, catalogs, policies, contracts, manifests, and fixtures. | Load an exact path from `mise run token-packet -- <args>` or its owning policy task. |
| `assets/exploration-corpus/` | Bounded exploration vocabulary and synthesis constraints. | Load through `mise run validate-exploration` or its packet. |
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