# uplift

This skill turns one page URL into three presales redesign directions. Use it when you want the extraction, design direction, and prototype flow handled as one task.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 380 installs · ★ 310
- Author: adobe
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/adobe/skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/stardust/skills/uplift/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/uplift

## What it does

\`uplift` takes a URL and runs the workflow from capturing the current page to producing three redesign variants. The homepage is used by default. Variant A keeps the captured brand palette and type, B explores a stronger alternate direction, and C uses a cinematic treatment with an automatically selected motion register.

The skill writes the extraction results, brand review, proposed variant files, and motion validation output. Use `--page <slug>` to target another surface, `--cinematic-register <name>` to choose C’s motion register, `--two-variants` to keep A and C, or `--re-extract` to force a new crawl.

The setup requires Node 22+, Playwright with Chromium resolvable from the project, and `playwright-cli` on `PATH`. `impeccable` and `stardust` must be installed alongside it; extraction fails when Playwright is unavailable.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install adobe/skills uplift
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/adobe/skills --path plugins/stardust/skills/uplift
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add adobe/skills --skill uplift -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/adobe/skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/stardust/skills/uplift/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- turn one page URL into a presales redesign
- compare three distinct visual directions
- identify concrete weaknesses in the captured page
- validate the motion treatment for variant C

## Example prompts
- Redesign `<URL>` for presales and produce the three proposed directions.
- Use `<URL>` with `--page <slug>` and target that page instead of the homepage.
- Re-crawl `<URL>` and render only A and C with `--re-extract --two-variants`.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: uplift
description: One-shot brand-faithful presales redesign of a website page. The user provides only the URL; everything else — extraction, tension identification, three differentiated variants (one fully cinematic), validation — is derived from the captured brand surface. Use when the user asks to "uplift", "refresh", or "redesign a site for presales" without wanting to coordinate the extract / direct / prototype chain themselves.
license: Apache-2.0
compatibility: Requires Node 22+, Playwright with Chromium resolvable from the project, playwright-cli on PATH, and the impeccable skill (github.com/pbakaus/impeccable) installed alongside stardust.
---

# stardust:uplift

One entry point. One URL. Three presales-quality redesign variants.

`uplift` collapses the `extract → direct → prototype × 3` chain into a
single opinionated command that picks every variability axis from the
captured brand surface rather than asking the user. The output is the
same as the long-form chain (state.json, brand-review.html, three
proposed files, motion validation) — the user just doesn't have to
coordinate it.

## Opinionated defaults

- **Single-page extract** — the homepage by default (the brand
  owner's first surface) unless `--page <slug>` overrides.
- **Brand-faithful Mode A** — palette + typography pinned. No
  invented colors, no fonts outside the captured surface.
- **Three variants, fixed role contract** — A is the green-light,
  B is the design-team motivator, C is the visionary cinematic
  pitch.
- **Cinematic register auto-picked** — C's motion register is
  selected from the captured PRODUCT.md Brand Personality per
  `../prototype/reference/motion-registers.md` § Selection
  heuristic.
- **"What if..." candidates are evidence-shaped** — B and C each
  pick one captured-but-underused trait, from the eight worked
  candidates in `reference/what-if-candidates.md` or a derived
  candidate per its § Extension rule. Different traits per variant.
- **Validation cascade runs** — every gate in
  `prototype/SKILL.md` Phases 2.5–2.8 fires, including cinematic
  Pass 6 for variant C.

## Inputs

- `<URL>` — required. The page to redesign. Defaults to homepage when
  the URL has no path (`https://example.com/` → home).
- `--page <slug>` — optional. Override the slug if the URL points
  elsewhere or the user wants a different surface.
- `--cinematic-register <name>` — optional. Override the auto-picked
  register for variant C. One of `arrival`, `kinetic-display`,
  `live-systems`, `editorial`, `kinetic-grid`. Recorded as
  `registerSource: "user-override"` in C's provenance.
- `--two-variants` — optional. Render only A and C (skip B). Useful
  when the brand surface is thin and a forced three-way differentiation
  would produce a weak middle (per the stop condition below).
- `--re-extract` — optional. Force a fresh crawl even when a prior
  extraction of the same URL is < 7 days old (see § Setup,
  reuse-if-fresh).

There are no other flags. Everything else is derived from the
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