- Remove npx playwright to prevent auto-installation triggers
- Add explicit tool availability checks using 'which' command
- Check for playwright-cli, google-chrome, chrome, and chromium executables
- Only attempt screenshot capture if tools are already installed
- Provide clear tool availability reporting to users
- Gracefully fallback to manual mode when no tools available
- Support chromium browser on Linux systems
This ensures the workflow never triggers package installations and works
safely in environments without screenshot tools installed.
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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- Replace mcp__exa__get_code_context_exa with mcp__exa__web_search_exa in consolidate.md
for trend research queries (colors, typography, layout, contrast, accessibility)
- Add Phase 0.75 URL Content Analysis in imitate-auto.md for screenshot fallback mode
- Use web_search_exa for design pattern extraction from URLs when screenshots unavailable
- Update workflow documentation to reflect new MCP tool usage
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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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Consolidate separate page/component modes into a unified target system to
reduce code duplication and simplify the workflow parameter model.
Changes:
- Merge --pages and --components into unified --targets parameter
- Add --target-type (auto|page|component) with intelligent detection
- Remove Phase 0d from explore-auto.md (131 lines of duplicate logic)
- Implement detect_target_type() helper for automatic classification
- Update generate.md to support adaptive wrapper generation
- Full HTML structure for pages
- Minimal wrapper for isolated components
- Update imitate-auto.md and update.md for parameter consistency
- Enhance ui-design-agent.md with adaptive design capabilities
- Maintain full backward compatibility with legacy syntax
Benefits:
- Code reduction: -35% in target inference logic (255 → 165 lines)
- Maintenance: Single unified logic path vs dual implementations
- Extensibility: Foundation for future mixed-mode support
- UX: Simpler parameter model with automatic type detection
Technical Details:
- explore-auto.md: 605 lines changed (unified Phase 0c)
- generate.md: 353 lines changed (targets + adaptive wrapper)
- Net change: +685 insertions, -504 deletions across 5 files
All existing workflows remain compatible via legacy parameter support.
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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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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Introduced a new command `/workflow:ui-design:imitate-auto` for imitating UI designs from URLs or images.
- Streamlined execution model with 5 phases: initialization, screenshot capture, style extraction, token adaptation, and prototype generation.
- Emphasized single style and layout generation, bypassing the consolidate step for improved speed.
- Implemented automated screenshot capture with fallback to manual input if necessary.
- Enhanced error handling for missing references and screenshot failures.
- Provided detailed documentation and examples for usage and execution flows.
