Clarified file writing patterns across UI design workflows to prevent confusion
between "generate content as output then save" vs "direct write to file" approaches.
Changes:
- extract.md: Merged Phase 2 & 3 to unify style synthesis and file write operations
* Updated phase title to emphasize direct file writing
* Added explicit note about internal processing without context output
* Consolidated parse-and-write step into single atomic operation
- imitate-auto.md: Added clarifying comments for orchestrator file transformation
* Documented that Phase 2 uses orchestrator-level read-process-write pattern
* Explained this as performance optimization to bypass consolidate phase
The entire UI design workflow now consistently follows clear file operation patterns
with no ambiguous intermediate output steps.
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Fix critical CSS loading issue where component templates were missing
style references due to contradictory instructions.
Changes:
- Require all templates (pages and components) to generate complete HTML5 documents
- Components now use full document structure with isolated body content
- Guarantees <head> tag presence for CSS placeholder injection
- Update validation to enforce <!DOCTYPE html> requirement
- Update documentation to reflect unified template approach
This ensures ui-instantiate-prototypes.sh can reliably inject STRUCTURAL_CSS
and TOKEN_CSS placeholders, fixing component styling issues.
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**Extract Changes:**
- Remove Phase 1.5 MCP trend research (Exa queries)
- Save design-space-analysis.json with search keywords for consolidate
- Update to pure Claude-native analysis (aligns with philosophy)
- Simplify completion todos and output documentation
**Consolidate Changes:**
- Load design-space-analysis.json from extraction phase
- Add Step 1: Variant-Specific Trend Research (MCP) to agent prompt
- Agent performs 4 MCP queries per variant + shared accessibility research
- Refine tokens using trend insights while maintaining variant identity
- Update completion reporting and key features
**Generate Changes:**
- Enhance HTML placeholder documentation with critical warnings
- Add complete HTML template examples (page/component modes)
- Clarify {{STRUCTURAL_CSS}} and {{TOKEN_CSS}} placeholder rules
- Simplify agent completion requirements (remove detailed report format)
- Allow agent to self-report completion status
**Benefits:**
- Extract becomes truly Claude-native (no external tools)
- Consolidate agent handles all MCP research in one place
- Better separation of concerns between phases
- Clearer template generation instructions for agents
- More flexible agent reporting
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- Added validation for --style-variants in generate command to ensure it matches actual style directories, preventing errors during prototype generation.
- Updated ui-instantiate-prototypes.sh script to validate style variants against existing directories, providing warnings and auto-correcting when necessary.
- Improved clarity in generate.md documentation regarding parameters, default values, and auto-detection mechanisms.
- Created a comprehensive UI Design Workflow Parameter Clarity Report to address inconsistencies in parameter naming and documentation across extract, consolidate, and generate commands.
- Unified parameter naming conventions to reduce confusion and improve user experience.
- Enhanced user guidance with a new README.md for the UI Design Workflow, outlining best practices and common mistakes.
- Removed the generation of a unified consolidation report in the consolidate.md file, streamlining the output structure.
- Updated the extract.md file to prioritize the --base-path argument for session management and improved error handling for style variant detection.
- Enhanced generate.md to enforce critical requirements for layout templates, ensuring independence from other targets.
- Added a comprehensive analysis report for the ui-instantiate-prototypes.sh script, detailing issues with style variant mismatches and proposing solutions for validation and prevention.
Fix layout strategy generation issues across UI design commands:
- consolidate.md: Enhance layout synthesis prompt with explicit examples and requirements
* Add concrete 3-layout example to clarify expected output structure
* Emphasize requirement to generate EXACTLY N strategies (not more, not less)
* Add sequential ID validation (layout-1, layout-2, ..., layout-N)
- explore-auto.md: Add missing --layout-variants parameter to consolidate command call
* Phase 2 now passes layout_variants count to ensure correct strategy generation
* Prevents mismatch between requested layouts and generated strategies
- extract.md: Update next step suggestions to include --layout-variants parameter
* Users now see optional [--layout-variants <count>] in command examples
* Improves discoverability of layout customization option
Before: consolidate would only generate default 3 layouts even when user specified different count
After: consolidate receives and respects user-specified layout variant count
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Enhance UI Design Workflow with intelligent design trend research capabilities:
- Add design trend analysis in extract phase using Exa MCP API
- Integrate layout strategy planning with current UI/UX patterns (2024-2025)
- Update consolidation command to include dynamic layout generation
- Add ui-instantiate-prototypes.sh script for prototype management
- Simplify path structure by removing nested .design directories
- Update workflow architecture documentation
This integration enables context-aware design decisions based on modern design trends
and improves the quality of generated UI prototypes.
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