penpot-design-to-code-review

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penpot-design-to-code-review — Close the design↔code bridge in the READ direction

1. Title + How it works

This skill reads a Penpot selection and compares it to the engineer's implemented code, then reports the drift. Every mutation goes through execute_code; validate visually with export_shape; read structure with penpotUtils.shapeStructure (full tool surface: shared/penpot-mcp-tool-reference.md). It reads tokens with penpotUtils.tokenOverview, extracts the design's HTML/CSS with penpot.generateMarkup(shapes, opts) and penpot.generateStyle(shapes, opts) (both invoked through execute_code), and produces a visual for side-by-side comparison with the separate export_shape tool. This skill is read-only on the canvas by default (mode: suggest) — it never mutates the design; it emits a report and, only on explicit request, proposes reconciliation steps. The code side (a React/Vue/etc. component file, or a rendered Storybook story / its DOM+CSS) is supplied by the user or by another MCP (filesystem, Storybook, a browser tool). If no code source is available, the skill degrades gracefully and compares the selection against the design-system tokens instead.


2. The One Rule That Matters Most

Never one-shot a review, and never mutate during one. Extract → normalize → map → diff → report, one logical execute_code call per step, with a read or export_shape between phases. A drift report that was assembled in a single blast is unverifiable and almost always wrong about token names. This is a suggest-mode skill: the canvas is not touched. The only thing you produce is a structured DRIFT report; reconciliation edits, if requested, are handed off to a write-capable skill (penpot-foundations for token work, penpot-rename-layers, or penpot-build-from-code for structural rebuilds) under their own checkpoints.


3. Penpot MCP Tool Reference

Full surface: see shared/penpot-mcp-tool-reference.md. The calls this skill leans on:

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Jul 9, 2026
penpot-design-to-code-review — penpot/penpot-ai-kit