Design Skill

Use $design when product, UI/UX, frontend, or design-system decisions need a durable source of truth in the repository. This skill discovers existing design context, interviews for missing product/design information, and creates or refreshes repo-local DESIGN.md so future UI/UX/frontend work is grounded instead of improvised.

Purpose

Make repo-local DESIGN.md source of truth and canonical design contract for the current repository:

existing repo evidence -> missing-context interview -> create/refresh DESIGN.md -> use DESIGN.md for UI/UX/frontend decisions.

The output is not a pixel-matching loop and not a one-off visual critique. It is the maintained design brief/checklist that implementation, review, and future visual work should cite.

Use when

• The user asks for design direction, UX guidance, frontend planning, or design-system alignment.
• A repo needs a design brief before UI/frontend implementation begins.
• Existing UI/components/assets/screenshots need to be summarized into a reusable design source of truth.
• UI/UX/frontend decisions are ambiguous and should be resolved through product context, constraints, and documented principles.
• A feature needs DESIGN.md created or refreshed before $ralph, a designer lane, or implementation work proceeds.