design-dna
Design DNA - one beautiful design into a permanent skill
A design loop finds you one beautiful thing. This turns that one thing into a skill you keep forever, so you can make more of it, in any format, without the look drifting.
Not only about "designs". The subject is anything that got built: a website, a landing page, a poster, a motion graphic, a carousel, a deck. Same system, same file, same tests. The format is an output, not the subject.
The problem this solves
Nobody wrote down why the winner was beautiful. Next time you ask for "the same style" you get something close, then something a bit off, then something generic. Every rule you do not write down, the model has to guess, and it does not guess randomly: it guesses the average of everything it has ever seen. That average is what people call slop. Slop is the sound of an unwritten rule.
Two modes
| You say | Mode | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| "codify this", "turn this into a skill", here is the winner | CAPTURE | Run the seven steps below. Output: a new style skill folder. |
"build X in ", "another one like the last", /<slug> |
REUSE | Load that style's PROMPT.md only, build, then run its self-check before returning. |
If a dna.json already exists for the style named, you are in REUSE. Never re-derive a style that has a record.