# styleseed

A skill for building, fixing and inspecting UI while keeping the design decisions your project already made. Useful when screens change but the style should not.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 570 installs · ★ 989
- Author: bitjaru
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/bitjaru/styleseed/tree/HEAD/skills/styleseed/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/styleseed

## What it does

StyleSeed registers one core skill and ships 22 workflows with their scripts inside the same directory. The agent reads only the workflow that matches the request instead of running all of them, then pulls the references that task needs.

The first workflow comes from the goal: build or redesign a screen, run first setup, work from a screenshot or Figma export, audit UX, review an implementation against project rules, score it, verify rendered output in pixels, change density, handle tokens, motion, accessibility, microcopy, or loading and error states. Status requests go to a read-only `scripts/styleseed-doctor.mjs` — no update, recompile or visual pass.

When `.styleseed/project.json` and `.styleseed/artifacts/index.json` exist, the artifact resolves through the registry, and a partial or invalid registry is an error: there is no fallback to the global legacy bundle. Older projects may use `.styleseed/effective-rules.md`, but only when no registry exists. Audit, score and status requests do not authorize edits. Learning is a separate `ss-learn` install, not part of the core, and the skill will not add it on its own.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install bitjaru/styleseed styleseed
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/bitjaru/styleseed --path skills/styleseed
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add bitjaru/styleseed --skill styleseed -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/bitjaru/styleseed/tree/HEAD/skills/styleseed/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a new screen that matches the existing interface
- turn a screenshot or Figma export into code
- find what is wrong with a screen and get UX critique
- check an implementation against project design rules
- change spacing or one design axis without touching the rest

## Example prompts
- styleseed, build a settings page in the style of the current interface
- audit this screen and tell me what is wrong with the UX
- verify the rendered output and check spacing in pixels

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: styleseed
description: Build, improve, or inspect UI with StyleSeed. Preserves project design choices and routes setup, layout, tokens, review, rendered verification, and updates through one entry point.
---

# StyleSeed

Use the user's goal to choose one first workflow below. This is the only registered core
skill; the 22 workflows and their executable dependencies ship inside this directory.
Read only the selected workflow, then references needed for that task.

## Registry-first artifact boundary

When `.styleseed/project.json` and `.styleseed/artifacts/index.json` exist, resolve the requested
artifact first. Read its `.styleseed/bundles/<artifact-id>.md` and manifest. A partial or invalid
registry is an error; never fall back to the global legacy bundle. Legacy projects may use
`.styleseed/effective-rules.md` only when no registry exists.

Before the first workflow in a project/task session, follow the
[update preflight](workflows/ss-update/references/update-preflight.md).

## Working contract

- Preserve approved project design choices. Support expert judgment; a score is not human acceptance.
- Resolve the current artifact first. For multiple plausible artifacts, ask one bounded clarification question.
- Never fan out to run every workflow. Choose exactly one first workflow; it may call the required gates.
- Honor the user's authorized scope. Audit, score, verify, and status requests do not authorize edits.
  Workflow metadata records the intended tool/scope boundary even though it is not host registration metadata.
- Paths in workflow files are relative to those files. Resolve installed scripts from this skill's
  actual directory, never assume a particular agent folder or download a missing sibling skill.
- In older instructions, `/ss-build`, `$ss-build`, and other `ss-*` names mean the corresponding
  internal workflow. Read `workflows/<name>/WORKFLOW.md`; do not invoke an unregistered skill.
  Users may say `StyleSeed build`, `$styleseed build`, or the old workflow name in natural language.
- Learning is an optional extension, not part of the core install. Only for explicit learning capture,
  use separately installed `ss-learn`; if absent, report that dependency and never auto-install it.

## Choose exactly one first workflow

| Request | Read |
|---|---|
| Build or redesign a screen, page, or component | [build](workflows/ss-build/WORKFLOW.md) |
| First setup or missing design lock | [setup](workflows/ss-setup/WORKFLOW.md) |
| Explore creative directions; direction not yet selected | [studio](workflows/ss-studio/WORKFLOW.md) |
| Use screenshot, URL, Figma export, or existing UI as a reference | [reference](workflows/ss-reference/WORKFLOW.md) |
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