aesthetic-guide
Aesthetic Guide
Produce exhaustive, implementation-ready design system documentation for a named UI aesthetic. The output is a reference guide detailed enough that a coding agent can faithfully implement the aesthetic with minimal room for interpretation.
Workflow
- Identify the aesthetic from the user's request
- Check the catalog — read references/aesthetic-catalog.md to see if pre-researched data exists for this aesthetic
- Research if needed — if the aesthetic is not in the catalog or the user wants a custom variant, conduct web research to gather implementation-level specifics (exact CSS values, fonts, colors, timing functions)
- Load the output schema — read references/output-schema.md for the required structure
- Generate the guide — fill every section of the output schema with concrete, copy-pasteable values. No hand-waving, no "choose an appropriate value" — every property must have an exact value or a constrained range with rationale.
- Deliver as a markdown file — write the completed guide to the project (default:
.claude/docs/{aesthetic-name}-design-system.md)
Research Protocol
When researching an aesthetic not in the catalog:
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