# frontend-crafting

A design and UI skill for building, reviewing, and refining interfaces in React, Vue, or HTML. It classifies surface intent before modifying any code.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1400 installs · ★ 6
- Author: sentimony
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/sentimony/skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/skills/skills/frontend-crafting/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/frontend-crafting

## What it does

This skill routes frontend tasks instead of dumping every rule into one prompt. Whenever an agent creates a page, redesigns a component, or conducts a visual review, it must stop first. The model executes Step 0 by declaring the workflow, surface mode, and a one-sentence read directly in chat before editing any files.

Instruction files load on demand from `references/` so the context window stays clean. The underlying design philosophy treats accessibility and semantics as non-negotiable foundations. Layout density adjusts to surface purpose, distinguishing an operations console from a promotional landing page.

The workflow stops at user-facing elements. Pure backend logic, architectural framework selection, and browser-level screenshot verification require other tooling like `web-debug`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentimony/skills --skill frontend-crafting -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentimony/skills --skill frontend-crafting -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentimony/skills --skill frontend-crafting -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install sentimony/skills frontend-crafting
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentimony/skills --skill frontend-crafting -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/sentimony/skills --path plugins/skills/skills/frontend-crafting
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentimony/skills --skill frontend-crafting -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/sentimony/skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/skills/skills/frontend-crafting/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- enforce accessibility and semantic layout standards across components
- classify surface purpose before making UI code edits
- review existing screens for visual hierarchy without editing source files
- refine spacing and typography for specific product contexts

## Example prompts
- Build an operations dashboard in React with high data density.
- Review the pricing page layout for visual hierarchy without touching the code.
- Polish the checkout form styling and interaction states in Vue.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: frontend-crafting
description: You MUST use this when building, implementing, redesigning, reviewing, or refining user-facing interfaces - including pages, layouts, forms, navigation, dashboards, and reusable UI components in HTML, CSS, Vue, Nuxt, React, or other frontend frameworks. Also applies to frontend code changes involving responsive design, styling, accessibility, visual hierarchy, interaction states, or user experience, even when the request is framed as implementation rather than design. Use alongside web-debug for browser verification; root-cause investigation of unexpected behavior belongs to debugging.
metadata:
  version: "1.5.0"
license: MIT
---

# Frontend Crafting

Design and build interfaces that come from the subject, not from a template. This file is a
router: it fixes the contract every workflow shares and points to the one reference file the
current request actually needs. Design rules live in the references, never here.

## Scope

Use this skill whenever work creates, implements, changes, or evaluates a user-facing interface:

- Building pages, screens, layouts, forms, navigation, or UI components.
- Implementing frontend designs or UI specifications in code.
- Refining styling, typography, spacing, visual hierarchy, or responsive layouts.
- Designing interaction states, feedback, accessibility, or user experience.
- Reviewing existing UI for design quality, usability, or consistency.

The skill applies to both design-driven and implementation-driven frontend work, even when the user does not explicitly request design.

Use `web-debug` alongside this skill when browser interaction, screenshots, or runtime verification are needed. Use `debugging` for root-cause investigation when expected behavior is already defined.

Do not use this skill for backend logic, infrastructure, framework selection, or purely internal refactoring without user-facing effects.

## Core principles

1. **The subject supplies the character.** Typography, palette, rhythm, and imagery come from
   what the product actually is and who uses it. Generic character is the default failure mode,
   and no amount of styling covers it.
2. **Structure carries information.** Every panel, card, divider, and badge must encode something
   true about the content. Structure that exists to fill space is decoration wearing a layout.
3. **Ambition is a function of the surface.** A marketing page and an operations console want
   different amounts of risk. Mode detection decides this before any styling decision.
4. **Correctness and accessibility are absolute; taste is not.** Aesthetic rules are defaults with
   stated exceptions, never bans. Accessibility, semantics, and behavioral correctness do not bend.
5. **Plan, critique, build, critique.** Judge the intent before writing code and judge the result
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