# migrate-design-system

Maps your design tokens to another system and back: Material 3, Apple HIG, Fluent 2, shadcn/ui, Radix. Useful when you borrow a look or move onto a new stack.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 487 installs · ★ 3016
- Author: plugin87
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/migrate-design-system/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-26
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/migrate-design-system

## What it does

The skill matches by role and intent, not by variable name. It reads a crosswalk protocol file, `design-systems/interop-protocol.md`, plus a table of curated mappings in `design-systems/crosswalk.md` covering Material 3, Apple HIG, Fluent 2, Carbon, shadcn/ui and Radix. Any other system gets a derived mapping along six axes: color roles, type scale, spacing unit, radius, elevation, motion.

You pick the direction. FROM means the outside system sets the look and your semantic tokens get re-pointed at it. TO means your components sit on their foundation and their primitives take your token values. The migration path works screen by screen: audit, map, add an alias layer, verify. Deliverables are a token crosswalk table, a bridge plan and confirmed overrides.

The skill depends on token files that ship with the kit. With skill folders alone, its first check prints `KIT_MISSING` and stops, since it will not guess at files it cannot open. Run `npx ux-ui-agent-skills init` or install the plugin to get the full kit. Contrast is the other trap: every mapped color pair has to go through `scripts/contrast.py` or `a11y-audit`, and all eight states plus dark mode must still hold up.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill migrate-design-system -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill migrate-design-system -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill migrate-design-system -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills migrate-design-system
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill migrate-design-system -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --path .claude/skills/migrate-design-system
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills --skill migrate-design-system -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/plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/migrate-design-system/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- align color roles with Material 3
- rework the type scale and spacing for another stack
- move a codebase from one component library to another
- recheck contrast after swapping tokens
- hand the team a token crosswalk table

## Example prompts
- Map our tokens to shadcn/ui and show me the crosswalk table
- Put our components on a Material 3 foundation, keep our tokens
- Audit contrast on every mapped pair, dark mode included

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: migrate-design-system
description: Map this token system to or from any external design system (Material Design 3, Apple HIG, Fluent, Carbon, Ant, shadcn/ui, Radix, Chakra, Mantine, Bootstrap…). Adopt their look, build on their stack, or migrate between systems. Use when the user mentions interop, migration, or a specific design-system/component-library bridge.
# `invocation:` was not a field Claude Code reads - unknown frontmatter keys are
# ignored without an error, so these six were auto-invocable the whole time they
# were marked user-only. This is the field that actually does it.
disable-model-invocation: true
---

# Skill: Migrate / Interop Design System

> **Step 0: is the kit here?** This skill reads files from the kit. Check once:
> `ls ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../tokens >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo KIT_OK || echo KIT_MISSING`
> On `KIT_MISSING` only the skill folders were installed, which is what
> `npx skills add` does. Say so plainly, point the user at
> `npx ux-ui-agent-skills init` or the plugin install, and stop. Do not guess the
> contents of a file you could not open.

Bridge to or from external design systems via a role-based crosswalk.

## Steps
1. Read `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../design-systems/interop-protocol.md` (Crosswalk Method, the three directions, headless-vs-styled guidance, verification).
2. Use the curated tables in `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../design-systems/crosswalk.md` for Material 3 / Apple HIG / Fluent 2 / Carbon / shadcn/ui / Radix. For others, derive a mapping with the Crosswalk Method (map by role/intent across 6 axes: color roles, type scale, spacing unit, radius, elevation, motion).
3. Choose the direction:
   - **FROM** external → our tokens (adopt their look): re-point `semantic.*`.
   - **TO** external stack (our components on their foundation): theme their primitives with our tokens.
   - **Migrate**: Audit → Map → Bridge (alias layer) → Verify, screen by screen.
4. **Verify** every mapped color pair for contrast (`${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../../scripts/contrast.py` / `a11y-audit`); confirm all 8 states + dark mode survive the mapping.

## Output
A crosswalk table (our token → their token → value note), a bridge plan if migrating, and verified token overrides. Render via `design-code`.
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