@cychien/ezdesign 0.0.0-stage → 0.8.1

package/LICENSE

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package/README.md

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-# Temporary Holding Version
+# ezdesign
 
-This version is a temporary placeholder for this package. An operational version to replace this has been submitted for review and is awaiting a staged release.
+> Point at your live app. Your agent fixes it.
+
+ezdesign turns any locally running dev server into an annotatable review surface for human ↔
+agent iteration. The user marks up the **real page** - click an element, frame a region, select
+some text, leave a comment - and the feedback flows to a local coding agent (Claude Code, Codex,
+anything that can run a CLI) as structured items that resolve to **exact source locations**. The
+agent edits the code, HMR updates the page in place, the user reviews the next round.
+
+```
+$ npx -y @cychien/ezdesign@latest http://localhost:5173/pricing --agent claude  # managed ACP agent
+$ npx -y @cychien/ezdesign@latest http://localhost:5173/pricing                 # portable poll mode
+$ npx -y @cychien/ezdesign@latest poll http://localhost:5173/                   # agent waits for feedback
+```
+
+- **Zero config.** A local daemon reverse-proxies your dev server and injects the annotation
+  overlay. No code changes, no build plugins required, works with any framework.
+- **Anchored feedback.** Annotations carry a layered anchor: `file:line` (with the optional Vite
+  plugin), React component chain, `data-section`, CSS selector, text, viewport. Agents stop
+  guessing which part of the page you meant. Paste or drop a screenshot into any comment and the
+  agent gets a path to it; `/element` points a comment at a second element, so "make this match
+  that one" arrives as a `file:line` too.
+- **Every screen at once.** Review on one device or lay all three out on a canvas - desktop,
+  iPad and iPhone side by side at their real viewports, scrolling together. An annotation stays on
+  the screen it was made on, and reaches the agent tagged with the width it was made at.
+- **Built for the loop.** In ACP mode, ezdesign owns the agent and keeps its live work, questions,
+  and permission prompts in the review shell. Poll mode keeps the blocking structured-JSON contract
+  for any external agent or automation. HMR keeps iterations in place; the review chrome lives
+  outside the app frame, so it survives your agent's syntax errors.
+- **Local-first.** Everything binds to 127.0.0.1. Nothing leaves your machine, except one
+  request to the npm registry every few hours to learn whether a newer version exists (opt out
+  with `EZDESIGN_NO_UPDATE_CHECK=1`).
+
+## Install
+
+Nothing to install - `npx -y @cychien/ezdesign@latest` is enough. For agents, add the bundled skill:
+
+```
+npx skills add cychien/ezdesign --skill ezdesign
+```
+
+Optional, for exact `file:line` anchors in Vite + React projects:
+
+```ts
+// vite.config.ts
+import { ezdesignSource } from '@cychien/ezdesign/vite'
+
+export default defineConfig({
+  plugins: [ezdesignSource(), react()],
+})
+```
+
+Dev-only (`apply: 'serve'`) - it never touches production builds.
+
+## Updating
+
+When a newer ezdesign is on npm, a card appears at the top of the review shell and one button takes
+it. The new version is installed under `~/.ezdesign/versions/` and started as this daemon's
+successor: the successor binds and registers first, and only once it is up does the old daemon let
+go - so a version that fails to start leaves you on the one you had, with the error in the card.
+Your sessions come back on the ports they held and the shell reloads itself.
+
+An ACP agent is restarted along with the daemon and asked to resume the conversation it was having,
+so an update no longer costs the review its context. An agent that cannot resume comes back in a
+fresh session, the same as `/new`, and the thread says so when it happens.
+
+The close button in the card's corner puts the offer away; the version beside the name in the
+header turns into a pill you can click to bring it back. Nothing is installed or restarted without
+that click.
+
+Without the shell:
+
+- **CLI** - always invoke it as `npx -y @cychien/ezdesign@latest`. A bare `npx @cychien/ezdesign`
+  reuses whatever version npx cached and never checks for a newer one.
+- **Daemon** - opening a session with a different CLI version replaces the running daemon with that
+  version, under the same restore guarantee any daemon restart gets (see Configuration). A CLI
+  that reaches a daemon on another version is refused with a `409` that says how to update,
+  instead of speaking a mismatched protocol.
+- **Skill** - `npx skills update ezdesign`, whenever you feel like it. Deliberately not part of the
+  update button: the skill's own instructions launch the CLI as `npx -y @cychien/ezdesign@latest`,
+  so an old copy still starts a current review, and everything that governs a review once it is
+  running ships with the daemon. Its reader is also an agent session ezdesign did not spawn and
+  cannot restart, so a sync would not take effect until that agent's next session either way. The
+  bundled copy carries the release it came from in its frontmatter (`metadata.version`).
+
+The daemon asks the npm registry for the latest version at most once every four hours. Set
+`EZDESIGN_NO_UPDATE_CHECK=1` to never ask.
+
+## Annotating
+
+Two modes, and the toolbar shows which one is armed. Both leave the page live underneath, and
+`Esc` steps back out - first the open comment box, then the mode.
+
+- **元素** (`E`) - point at one thing. Hover frames the element under the cursor, a click opens the
+  comment box on it, and selecting text instead annotates that run. This is the mode for "this
+  button", "this heading", "this sentence".
+- **範圍** (`R`) - drag a box over an area. What the box encloses *whole* is what it means: the
+  elements it merely cuts through are looked past, down to the ones that fit - so framing a card is
+  the card, and framing a row of them is the row. The box you drew stays on screen as the comment's
+  subject, and the agent is handed the enclosing element's `file:line` plus `anchor.contains`, a
+  line per element the box held: component, `file:line`, and a snippet of that element's own text,
+  which is what tells two instances of the same component apart. This is the mode for "this whole
+  block", "these four cards", "the spacing through here".
+
+One comment is composed at a time - across every preview on the canvas, not just the one you are
+in - so a box drawn in one screen cannot open a second comment box behind the one you are writing.
+
+## The comment box
+
+Typing `/` in either comment box opens a command menu - arrow keys and Enter, or click. A slash
+mid-word stays a slash, so urls and paths are left alone. The commands:
+
+- **`/file`** opens the system file picker and drops what you choose in as an attachment, where the
+  slash was.
+- **`/new`** starts a new chat: the agent's context is thrown away and the review carries on in a
+  fresh session, which is how a long review stops paying to replay its own history on every turn.
+  Only offered in [ACP mode](#acp-mode-experimental), and only in the note box below the queue. The
+  thread empties with it, back to the state it opened in - a notice explaining that the history above
+  no longer counts is still history above. The log on disk is untouched: `/new` records where the
+  visible thread starts, so the record of the review stays whole while the shell shows the fresh
+  start that was actually asked for. Every batch the agent had not finished with goes too, not just
+  the turn it was on - a question queued behind that turn was asked of a context you have just said
+  to start over from, and a fresh session answering it would be answering something else. The 待送
+  清單 is left alone: those you have not sent yet, so they were never the old context's to begin
+  with. A note you were part-way through typing survives, so `/new` and then send is one move.
+  One thing does carry over: the first batch of the new chat is handed what you asked for in the
+  earlier ones, one line each, marked as already handled. The agent works to `PRODUCT.md`, starts
+  from `DESIGN.md`, and is told to write a correction into them when it has come up before; a fresh
+  session cannot see "before" on its own, so the daemon shows it.
+- **`$`** opens a second menu, of the skills this machine can run, and picking one
+  asks the agent to run it over the batch you are about to send. The skill shows as a pill above
+  the box until the batch goes, and on the sent bubble afterwards - which is the only place it
+  appears, because an explicitly invoked skill is expanded into the agent's prompt rather than
+  loaded through its skill tool, so nothing in the turn's activity would otherwise say it ran.
+  A skill on its own is a batch: "run this over what you can see" needs no annotation and no note.
+
+  Its own symbol rather than more rows under `/`, because the two are different kinds of thing:
+  `/file` and `/element` act on the box you are typing in, and a skill is handed to the agent.
+  Only offered in [ACP mode](#acp-mode-experimental), and only in the note box.
+
+  The list is read off disk - `.claude/skills` and `.agents/skills`, in the project and in your
+  home directory, plus `.claude/plugins/*/skills`. Skills bundled inside the Claude Code binary
+  are **not** listed: they have no file to find, and the protocol's own command list cannot tell a
+  skill from `/doctor`, so including it would mean a menu of "skills" that offers things that are
+  not skills.
+- **`/element`** points the comment at a *second* element - "make this match that one". The page
+  stays live while you choose, so a plain click still follows links and opens menus and only
+  ⌘/Ctrl+click picks; the comment box steps aside and comes back when you are done. You can cross to
+  another page to find what you meant, and ezdesign brings you back to finish the comment. The
+  element arrives as a chip carrying the same layered anchor an annotation gets, so the agent is
+  handed a `file:line` instead of a description, and `[ref 1]` in the comment text says exactly where
+  in the sentence you meant it.
+
+  The same command also takes a plain **drag**, the way a screenshot tool does: frame a box and the
+  chip points at everything inside it (no modifier needed - a press only becomes a box once it has
+  moved, so a plain click is still the page's). What the box encloses whole is what it means - the
+  elements it merely cuts through are looked past, down to the ones that fit - so framing a card is
+  the card, and framing a row of them is the row. A region resolves to their common ancestor for the
+  `file:line`, and carries `anchor.contains`, a line per element it enclosed - component, `file:line`
+  and a snippet of that element's own text, which is what tells two instances of the same component
+  apart. A frame around exactly one element is simply that element, the same as clicking it.
+
+
+Either comment box also takes an image or file, pasted or dropped in. Attachments become inline chips
+in the text itself, so a comment can point at a file mid sentence, and backspace deletes one the
+way it deletes a character. They are names, not previews - the box is for the comment, and a
+thumbnail takes the room it needs. The bytes go straight to the session directory, capped at 8 MB
+per file, and the batch hands the agent an absolute path per attachment so it opens the screenshot
+instead of being handed base64. Deleting a queued annotation deletes its files with it; anything
+attached and then abandoned is collected a day later.
+
+## The queue
+
+Queued annotations stay editable until the batch goes out. The pencil on a row turns that row's
+comment into a field in place - nothing appears elsewhere, and there is no second place to look.
+Editing borrows the two buttons the row already has rather than adding any: the pencil becomes the
+tick that commits, and the cross, which dismisses either way, becomes the one that backs out. The row
+keeps its number and its source label throughout, so what is being changed never stops being obvious.
+
+The field is seeded with exactly what the row was showing, chips where the sentence had them, so a
+`[ref 1]` or an attached screenshot survives a wording change instead of having to be picked again.
+⌘/Ctrl+Enter saves, Escape cancels, and both outrank the shell's own bindings while the field is
+open, so ⌘+Enter is this save rather than the batch send. `/file` works inside it; `/element` does
+not - pointing a comment at a new element needs the page's own pointer routed back into a row, which
+is a different thing from adjusting what you already wrote, so delete the chip and re-annotate
+instead.
+
+A cancel takes any file attached during the edit with it; the files the row already had are left
+alone either way, and one dropped by a save is collected by the same sweep that collects an
+attachment nothing references.
+
+## Asking while the agent is still working
+
+Sending mid-turn is allowed and queues - you should not have to wait for a turn to finish before
+writing down what you just noticed. The batch goes out on its own the moment the agent comes back,
+and your bubble appears in the thread the moment it leaves the composer, which is what says it went.
+To make it go *now*, stop the current turn: the queued batch is delivered as soon as that turn ends.
+`/new` does the opposite - it drops the queue along with the context.
+
+The thread draws each answer under the question it answers, which is not always where the log put it.
+The log itself stays append-only and stamped in real time - it is the record of the review - but a
+batch sent mid-turn lands *between* an earlier question and its reply, so rendering the log verbatim
+would put the agent's answer under a question it is not answering, and put the new question above
+output that started before it was typed. Instead every entry carries the batch it belongs to, and the
+in-flight turn is drawn in the same place its finished reply will be, so nothing moves when the reply
+lands. Entries that answer no batch - the session notices - stay exactly where the log put them,
+because for those the timeline *is* the meaning.
+
+## Devices
+
+The header carries one toggle group with two sides: a menu picking the size to preview at, and
+all of them at once (`4`). The raised side is the one showing. The sizes are real device viewports, not bare widths - where the fold lands is
+half of what a responsive review is looking at:
+
+| Key | Device | Viewport |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `1` | 手機 | 375×629 - a 375×812 screen, less the browser's bars |
+| `2` | 平板 | 1112×740 - a 10.5" tablet on its side, past the breakpoint most layouts switch on |
+| `3` | 電腦 | 1440×788 - a 1440×900 laptop screen, less the menu bar and the browser's own |
+
+The sizes are the **page area** a browser leaves on that device, not the screen it leaves it on -
+so a card on the canvas stops showing the page exactly where the real thing stops showing it. On
+its own a size takes only its width from the table and the height from your screen: one preview
+gets the whole stage to show the page in, and the canvas is where the fold is what you are
+checking.
+
+The names are shelves, not machines - a 手機 row naming a handset would claim a precision the
+row does not have, when phone widths run from 360 up past 430. The sizes are still taken from
+real machines; the comments in `devices.ts` say which.
+
+**`4` lays them out on one canvas** - phone and tablet side by side, the desktop on the row below.
+The control in the stage's top corner picks which sizes are on it: the three above, plus a portrait
+tablet (834×1018) that is off by default.
+
+The canvas is drawn at **true size**, always. A 375 card is 375 pixels whether it is standing alone
+or with three others beside it - a scaled 375 is not 375 to a media query, and a page measured at a
+size nobody browses at is not a measurement. Turning a size off does not resize or rearrange the
+ones that are left. What does not fit is what the dragging is for.
+
+Every card is the device it names, at its own height. What keeps the canvas short enough to work
+on is the two-row layout, not a cap on the cards - a card cut to a shared height would be lying
+about where the fold falls, which is half of what the preview is for.
+
+**Drag a card by its label to rearrange the canvas.** A card cannot stop just anywhere: it lands
+top-aligned in an existing row, or on a row of its own, and a line marks where it would go -
+upright between two cards, flat between two rows. The arrangement is remembered, and a size turned
+on later joins as its own row at the bottom rather than reshuffling what you laid out.
+
+**Drag the background to move the canvas.** The frames are the app: a press inside one belongs to
+the page, so the backdrop and the gaps are what the canvas is panned by. That is also why the
+canvas does not have to fit - what is off the edge is a drag away.
+
+Scrolling inside any one preview scrolls the others to the same point in the page, and navigating
+one - a link, back, forward - takes all of them: annotations are filtered by path, and three
+previews on three pages is three separate reviews.
+
+An annotation belongs to the screen it was made on: mark up the iPhone card and the pin lives
+there, not on all three. The agent gets `@mobile 390x844` in the anchor either way. Everything the
+overlay draws - the comment box, the element label, the pins - is drawn back up to full size, so a
+canvas scaled to 60% is still one you can read and type into.
+
+## Configuration
+
+| Variable | Default | What it moves |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `EZDESIGN_DATA_DIR` | `~/.ezdesign` | Session state, the daemon registry and log, versions installed by the in-shell update, and the update-check cache |
+| `EZDESIGN_CONTROL_PORT` | `4400` | First port of the ten-port range the daemon searches for its control server |
+| `EZDESIGN_NO_UPDATE_CHECK` | unset | Set to `1` and the daemon never asks the npm registry for the latest version, so the shell never offers an update |
+| `EZDESIGN_INSPIRE_URL` | `https://inspire.ezdesign.dev` | The inspiration database the `inspire` commands query |
+
+Set both together to run a second, fully isolated instance: a starting daemon adopts any live
+daemon it finds inside its own control range, so moving the data dir alone still lands you on the
+shared daemon. `npm run dev` sets both.
+
+Sessions outlive the daemon that served them. On start, the daemon picks each session back up
+from disk and re-binds it to the port it last held, so a review shell tab you already have open
+only needs a reload, and feedback you queued before the restart is still waiting. If that port has
+since been taken, the session moves to a free one and the CLI re-resolves it. A session that was
+driving an ACP agent starts that agent again **and asks it to resume the conversation they were
+having**, so the review carries on where it stopped. Whether that works is the agent's answer to
+give - a transcript it no longer has, or an agent that cannot resume at all, leaves the review in a
+fresh context, and only then does the thread say so.
+
+A session belongs to one project on one origin, not to the origin alone. Dev servers all default
+to the same port, so reviewing a second project on `localhost:5173` would otherwise inherit the
+first one's conversation and hand its undelivered feedback to the wrong agent. The project is the
+nearest `.git` or `package.json` ancestor of the directory you run `ezdesign` from, so switching
+projects on a port starts a clean review and switching back finds the old one intact.
+
+## Agent modes
+
+ezdesign can either manage an ACP agent inside the review session or expose feedback through its
+portable polling contract. Both modes receive the same structured feedback and exact anchors.
+
+### ACP mode (experimental)
+
+Pass `--agent` when opening the session:
+
+```
+npx -y @cychien/ezdesign@latest http://localhost:5173/ --agent claude
+```
+
+The daemon starts the agent as a child process, sends each feedback batch as one turn, and shows
+the agent's streaming reply, plan, tool activity, questions, and permission prompts in the review
+shell. The completed reply is saved in the conversation, and the next queued batch is delivered
+automatically. No second terminal or `poll` loop is needed. This is also the mode used by the
+bundled ezdesign skill.
+
+Three controls come with owning the agent:
+
+- **⌘/Ctrl+.** stops the turn in flight, from anywhere including mid-sentence in the composer -
+  which is when you usually want it, since watching the agent head the wrong way is what prompts it.
+  No button: a control that is live for the few seconds a turn lasts costs the composer a permanent
+  slot to say so. The status badge reads `正在中止` until the agent answers, so the keypress is not
+  silent. Whatever it had already said stays in the thread, and the batch is not handed back: you
+  stopped it on purpose.
+- **`/new`** in the note box clears the agent's context. See [The comment box](#the-comment-box).
+  Every conversation a review has had stays reachable: once there is more than one, a control at the
+  head of the thread lists them by time and by how much was said, and picking one shows its thread
+  and puts the agent back on it. While an earlier conversation is showing the control says so in
+  colour, because feedback sent then joins *that* conversation and nothing else on screen would
+  mention it.
+- **The pill above the note box** names the model the next batch will be answered by, and opens
+  everything else the agent lets the session be set to - reasoning effort, permission mode, and any
+  toggle it offers. It is a permanent slot because unlike a cancel it is *state*: it says what you
+  are about to send your feedback to.
+
+  What it offers is the model and, where the agent has one, the reasoning effort. Not the permission
+  mode and not the fast-mode toggle: those are the agent's own configuration, and a review is not
+  where they should be decided. A mode the *agent* changes is still reported in the thread - some
+  models do not support every mode, and selecting one moves it as a side effect that outlives the
+  model that caused it, so the problem worth solving there was the silence rather than the missing
+  control.
+
+  A switch keeps the conversation. The model changes on the running session, so nothing is replayed
+  and nothing is forgotten - which is what makes it worth reaching for mid-review: point at the easy
+  half on a cheap model, move up for the layout problem that needs it. Sending mid-turn is allowed
+  and applies from the next turn.
+
+  What the menu holds is whatever the agent reports, not a list ezdesign keeps. That matters because
+  the list changes with the choice: pick a model with no reasoning levels and no fast mode and both
+  options leave the menu, and the agent can move a value on its own - a refusal falling back to
+  another model - which arrives here and redraws. Some models do not support every permission mode,
+  and picking one **downgrades the mode** as a side effect; showing the mode is what keeps that from
+  happening silently.
+
+  Your pick is remembered for the session and re-asserted on the next one, so `/new` and a daemon
+  restart do not hand the review back to the agent's default. Every switch goes into the thread, so
+  a review read back later says which model answered which batch.
+
+The agent itself can be changed from the pill left of the model, which is where it belongs: the two
+answer one question between them - what is about to read this feedback - and the model is a choice
+*within* the agent, so changing the agent replaces the list the model was chosen from. That always
+starts a new conversation, and the shell says so before it does it: a session id belongs to the agent that issued
+it - Claude keeps its conversations in one store and Codex in another, and neither can resolve the
+other's - so there is no way to hand a conversation over. Nothing ezdesign owns is lost. Every earlier
+conversation stays in the thread's own picker with the agent that had it, and switching back finds it
+again, resumable by the agent that remembers it.
+
+The agent can design the way a designer works, through a five-step harness in the bundled skill:
+product, stack, design, components, make. It is opt-in, experimental - the switch says 實驗 - and a
+premium feature: the **增強設計** switch on its own line above the agent and the model, marked with a
+gold sparkle, turns it on, and the choice is remembered for the project - across sessions, a dev
+server that moved ports, `/new` and daemon restarts - except that it starts off when the project's
+`PRODUCT.md` or `DESIGN.md` is gone, so turning it on asks again. Off, every batch is handled
+exactly as it was before the harness existed. The harness applies only to a turn whose prompt says
+it is on; after it has been on in a conversation, every later turn with it off is told so, because
+the agent still remembers what it read while it was on. Two files at the project root are what it
+works to. **`PRODUCT.md`** says what the product is for - who uses it, what it makes possible, what
+must not change. **`DESIGN.md`** ([the format](https://github.com/google-labs-code/design.md)) says
+what it looks like, in broad strokes - a few anchor values in YAML frontmatter and the character of
+the language in prose, with the full scales left to the design system. When both exist, every batch
+tells the agent to read them before a visual change, keep to `PRODUCT.md`, and take `DESIGN.md` as
+a direction rather than a rule: a document held to the letter makes everything look alike, so the
+agent may go past it. An ordinary change edits code only. The two files change
+when you ask for it, when a correction has come twice, or when you state a rule - only on what you
+actually said, never on what the agent reads into a send-back; a change that only leaves a line stale is mentioned in the reply, not edited. Between them,
+`.ezdesign/config.json` records the stack and the browser tool the agent looks at the page with. The
+skill needs no ezdesign session to run: installed in Claude Code or Codex and invoked on its own, it
+walks the same steps against the project and the dev server.
+
+Turning the switch on in a project that lacks either file asks first, in the card above the
+composer: 啟用增強設計 - 增強設計會建立 PRODUCT.md 與 DESIGN.md，是否繼續？ 取消 leaves the switch off,
+because the harness cannot run without them. 繼續 turns it on and starts a setup turn at once, which walks the steps
+that build the missing files before any batch is worked. Switching off again before the agent has
+started that turn cancels it, and the thread says so. `PRODUCT.md` is written as a designer meets a
+client: the agent reads the project's own copy and assets first, then asks, three questions a round,
+what they could not answer - who it is for, what it makes possible, what must be preserved - each
+led by what it inferred, so you correct rather than dictate. Nothing about feel or style is asked there; that belongs to `DESIGN.md`, which
+is read off the running page the way a design-token extractor reads one: computed styles, counted,
+so the colour on three hundred elements is the surface and the one on two is the accent, and only
+the character and its anchors are written down; the format's own linter checks the result.
+
+How the agent then works - where it looks for precedent, the principles it builds to, how it
+writes a repeated correction back into the two files - lives in the bundled skill's `reference/`
+files, which the daemon points it at turn by turn. A piece of design is not judged by the agent
+that made it, since a maker praises its own work: it starts a subagent with a fresh context, which
+looks at the agent's screenshots of the change and scores it against the reaction good work gets on
+X and Dribbble, "super clean!", in a product held to the standard of Shopify, Stripe, Linear and
+Vercel - useful, super clean, clear, fitting, well made - and answers ship, refine or pivot. One review; a second only after a pivot,
+comparing the two directions. The reply never mentions the review. What you say about quality in so many words, or correct twice, is
+written to `.ezdesign/taste.md`, which the agent builds to and the reviewer judges by,
+so both move toward your eye. The daemon carries
+only the facts a skill cannot know: whether the switch is on, which files exist, where the page
+is, what the turn is for.
+
+Three built-in profiles map short names to ACP server commands:
+
+| Profile | Command |
+| --- | --- |
+| `claude` | `npx -y @agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp` |
+| `codex` | `npx -y @agentclientprotocol/codex-acp` |
+| `gemini` | `gemini --experimental-acp` |
+
+Any other value is used as an ACP command line, so a custom server can be started with
+`--agent 'my-acp-agent --flag'`. Only one live ACP agent can own a session. End the session or stop
+the daemon before switching it to a different agent.
+
+### Poll mode
+
+Without `--agent`, the review uses the existing CLI contract:
+
+```
+npx -y @cychien/ezdesign@latest http://localhost:5173/
+npx -y @cychien/ezdesign@latest poll http://localhost:5173/
+```
+
+`poll` blocks until the user sends feedback, prints the structured batch as JSON, and exits. This
+mode remains available for scripts and integrations that consume the CLI contract directly.
+
+## Inspiration
+
+Before it builds a piece of design, the agent looks for precedent: a curated collection of
+interfaces, each entry carrying the reason it works and the case where it would be the wrong
+choice. It is searched by meaning - a description of what the piece has to show - and entries carry
+tags in their curator's own words, which nudge a search that names one. It needs a token:
+
+```
+npx -y @cychien/ezdesign@latest login --token <token>
+npx -y @cychien/ezdesign@latest inspire --query "a command menu over the whole product"
+npx -y @cychien/ezdesign@latest inspire --query "an onboarding checklist" --tag "dark popover" --limit 3
+```
+
+`login` writes the token to `~/.ezdesign/credentials.json`, mode 600; without `--token` it prompts,
+and `logout` forgets it. A search takes a `--query`, `--tag`, or both. `inspire` prints a block per
+result - the tags, `Shows:`, `Components:`,
+`Actions:`, `Why it works:`, `Wrong when:`, and local paths to the entry's images, which are
+downloaded once and reused after that; `(approximate)` in a heading means the entry was read off a
+screenshot. `--json` prints the same response with those paths in place of the service's own URLs,
+and carries what the block leaves out: the visible wording, the layout and its metrics, and the
+relevance score. There is no fixed list of tags; the query does the finding.
+
+Nothing about the collection ships in the package: a query returns what it asked for, and the
+results belong in the agent's reply, not in your repository. A search that finds nothing exits 0
+with one line, and one that cannot run - no token, a refused token, a service that cannot be
+reached - exits 2 with one line, so the agent says so and carries on.
+
+## Development
+
+Working on ezdesign itself takes one command:
+
+```
+npm run dev                 # watch src/, serve the playground fixture, start an isolated daemon,
+                            # open the review shell with an ACP agent on it
+npm run dev -- --no-plugin  # the same page without ezdesignSource(), to see fallback-only anchors
+npm run dev:agent           # a stand-in poll-mode agent, for working on the poll contract itself
+npm run dev:cli status      # the ezdesign CLI, pointed at the dev daemon instead of the real one
+```
+
+`npm run dev` opens the review in ACP mode, scoped to the fixture - the agent's working directory
+is `fixtures/playground`, which is the project it is reviewing. Nothing else is needed; `dev:agent`
+is only for the poll contract.
+
+A client rebuild (`src/client/**`) only needs a browser reload; a rebuild the daemon loads
+restarts it, and in-flight polls reconnect on their own. Dev mode keeps its daemon registry and
+sessions in `.dev/`, so your own `~/.ezdesign` is never touched. The review target is
+[`fixtures/playground`](fixtures/playground/README.md).
+
+## Status
+
+Early. On the roadmap: diff-derived Keep/Undo and layout-issue detection. ACP mode is an
+experimental spike.
+
+## License
+
+MIT