Commands now require context gathering before proceeding:
- bolder: target audience, use-cases, brand personality
- quieter: purpose, audience, what's working
- colorize: brand colors, audience, domain appropriateness
- animate: personality, performance budget, audience
- delight: brand personality, emotional context, appropriateness
- simplify: what's essential vs nice-to-have
Each command now:
1. Gathers context from thread/codebase first
2. MUST ask user if inference confidence is medium or lower
3. MUST use frontend-design skill before proceeding
4. Has visual separator (---) as hard gate before design work
This prevents AI slop by ensuring commands have proper context
before making design decisions.
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- Add "MANDATORY: Context Gathering (Do This First)" section with 3 procedural steps
- Require scanning codebase for README, brand guidelines, design tokens before design
- Must answer: target audience, brand personality, existing tokens/colors/fonts
- Hard gate: STOP and ask user if ANY question is unclear
- Visual separator (---) prevents proceeding without completing steps
- Preserves full Tone options and Design Direction content
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Monospace is fine when used intentionally - the issue is lazy "dev tool"
defaults, not the typeface itself.
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- Added explicit AI SLOP TRAP warning before planning
- Removed "monospace as accent" suggestion (contradicts skill)
- Replaced glassmorphism with grain, halftone, duotone alternatives
- Added anti-slop caveats to shadows and borders suggestions
- Added "NOT AI slop" as first verification check
- Added "the test" to verify section
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- Restored DO/DON'T format in individual sections (required for website)
- Added new "Visual Details" section for glassmorphism, sparklines, etc.
- Added new AI slop patterns: gradient text, dark mode with glowing accents,
hero metric layout, identical card grids, thick colored border on one side
- Added "The AI Slop Test" section for commands to reference
- Commands now reference "DON'T guidelines" (one source of truth)
- Build now shows 16 pattern categories (was 0)
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- Removed scattered DON'Ts from individual Frontend Aesthetics sections
- Created ONE "Anti-Patterns (CRITICAL)" section with two sub-sections:
- AI Slop Tells: cyan-on-dark, gradient text, glassmorphism, hero metrics, etc.
- Design Anti-Patterns: gray on color, nested cards, bounce easing, etc.
- Added new pattern: "Rounded element with thick colored border on one side"
- Commands now reference the skill's Anti-Patterns section instead of duplicating
- Easier to maintain: one place to update
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Critical addition: Both commands now check for AI-generated aesthetic tells:
- Cyan-on-dark, purple-to-blue gradients, neon accents
- Gradient text, glassmorphism, hero metric layouts
- Monospace typography, sparklines as decoration
- Identical card grids, generic fonts, rounded rectangles
Reports now start with "AI Slop Verdict" - pass/fail on distinctiveness.
This is the most important quality signal for shipping work that doesn't
look like every other AI-generated interface.
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- Commands now say "Use the frontend-design skill" instead of passive note
- Skill's Design Thinking section now has explicit MUST-know checklist
- Added ask instruction to bolder command for context gathering
- AskUserQuestionTool instruction is now more prominent and imperative
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Changed from passive "use the AskUserQuestion tool" to imperative
"STOP and call the AskUserQuestion tool" to ensure Claude actually
asks clarifying questions when context is missing.
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Users can now toggle "Prefix commands with /i-" in the download section
to get bundles with all commands prefixed (e.g., /i-audit instead of /audit).
This helps avoid conflicts with existing custom commands.
Build system changes:
- Transformers now accept optional prefix/outputSuffix parameters
- Build generates both unprefixed and i-prefixed variants
- ZIP bundles created for both variants
UI changes:
- Add toggle switch to download section
- Toggle controls which bundle variant gets downloaded
- Styled to match existing design language
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