@marver-design/marver 0.2.3 → 0.2.4

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package/dist/cli.mjs CHANGED
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ function version() {
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  }
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  const cli = cac(NAME);
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  cli.command("init", "Scaffold design/ in this repo").option("--mode <mode>", "studio | embedded", { default: "studio" }).option("--no-demo", "Skip the demo scene (the demo ships unless this flag is passed)").option("--root <dir>", "Host repo root", { default: "." }).action(async (opts) => {
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- const { init } = await import("./init-ClhCgn4v.mjs");
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+ const { init } = await import("./init-Di4geblA.mjs");
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  init(resolve(opts.root), {
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  mode: opts.mode === "embedded" ? "embedded" : "studio",
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  demo: opts.demo !== false
@@ -98,21 +98,40 @@ function init(root, opts) {
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  for (const f of readdirSync(join(instrRoot, e.name))) if (f.endsWith(".md")) writeManaged(`instructions/${e.name}/${f}`, readFileSync(join(instrRoot, e.name, f), "utf8"));
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  } else if (e.name.endsWith(".md")) writeManaged(`instructions/${e.name}`, readFileSync(join(instrRoot, e.name), "utf8"));
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  const setupPath = join(design, "instructions", "setup.md");
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- const ourSetup = () => {
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- try {
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- const s = readFileSync(setupPath, "utf8");
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- return s.startsWith("# Setup required") && s.includes("marver init");
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- } catch {
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- return false;
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+ const setupState = () => {
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+ if (!existsSync(setupPath)) return "absent";
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+ const s = readFileSync(setupPath, "utf8");
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+ if (s.startsWith(MANAGED_PREFIX)) {
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+ const recorded = s.slice(MANAGED_PREFIX.length).split(" ")[0];
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+ const nl = s.indexOf("\n");
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+ return nl >= 0 && hashBody(s.slice(nl + 1)) === recorded ? "ours-pristine" : "ours-edited";
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  }
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+ return s.startsWith("# Setup required") && s.includes("marver init") ? "ours-pristine" : "foreign";
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  };
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+ const setupWas = setupState();
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+ const appJustAppeared = !noApp(host) && (setupWas === "ours-pristine" || setupWas === "ours-edited");
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  if (noApp(host)) {
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- if (!existsSync(setupPath)) write("instructions/setup.md", SETUP_MD);
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- } else if (existsSync(setupPath) && ourSetup()) {
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+ if (setupWas === "ours-pristine" && !readFileSync(setupPath, "utf8").startsWith(MANAGED_PREFIX)) rmSync(setupPath);
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+ if (setupWas !== "foreign") writeManaged("instructions/setup.md", SETUP_MD);
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+ } else if (setupWas === "ours-pristine") {
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  rmSync(setupPath);
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  console.log(` - design/instructions/setup.md removed (app detected - setup complete)`);
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+ } else if (setupWas === "ours-edited") console.log(` - design/instructions/setup.md: app detected, but you customized the file - delete it yourself when setup is done`);
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+ const rootTsconfig = existsSync(join(root, "tsconfig.json"));
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+ const tsconfigNow = () => rootTsconfig ? readFileSync(join(templates, "design-tsconfig.json"), "utf8").replace("{{PATHS}}", designPaths(root)) : STANDALONE_TSCONFIG;
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+ write("tsconfig.json", tsconfigNow());
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+ if (appJustAppeared) {
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+ const refresh = (rel, noAppPristine, next) => {
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+ try {
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+ if (!noAppPristine.includes(next) && noAppPristine.includes(readFileSync(join(design, rel), "utf8"))) {
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+ writeFileSync(join(design, rel), next);
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+ created.push(`design/${rel} (updated for the detected app)`);
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+ }
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+ } catch {}
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+ };
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+ refresh("providers.tsx", [providersTemplate(null, null), providersTemplate(null, host.toaster, host.routerPkg)], providersTemplate(host.router, host.toaster, host.routerPkg));
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+ refresh("tsconfig.json", [STANDALONE_TSCONFIG], tsconfigNow());
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  }
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- write("tsconfig.json", existsSync(join(root, "tsconfig.json")) ? readFileSync(join(templates, "design-tsconfig.json"), "utf8").replace("{{PATHS}}", designPaths(root)) : STANDALONE_TSCONFIG);
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  write(".gitignore", ".local/\n.dist/\n");
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  write("scenes/_layout.tsx", readFileSync(join(templates, "root-layout.tsx"), "utf8"));
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  if (!existsSync(join(design, "boards"))) {
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  │ No framework, no theme CSS, no component library. ${NAME} builds │
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  │ frames from YOUR components - with none, designs get thrown away. │
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  │ │
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- │ Setup instructions: design/instructions/setup.md. Set up the app, │
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- │ re-run init, and that file removes itself. AGENTS.md carries a STOP │
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- │ so your agent does not design against components that do not exist. │
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+ │ Setup instructions: design/instructions/setup.md. Your agent will │
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+ │ ask what you are building, propose a stack, set it up with you, and │
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+ │ re-run init - that file then removes itself. AGENTS.md points there │
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+ │ so nothing gets designed against components that do not exist. │
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  └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘`);
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  console.log(`\n commit design/ - only .local/ is ignored`);
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  console.log(` uninstall = delete design/, remove the ${NAME} dependency${host.tsconfigSweepsDesign ? ", revert the \"design\" line in tsconfig exclude" : ""}`);
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  if (!noApp(host) && !existsSync(join(design, "DESIGN.md"))) console.log(`\n note: design/DESIGN.md (the brand doc) does not exist yet - have your agent create it from the app's tokens (instructions/brand.md, Path A) to reach the idle state.`);
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  console.log(`\n next: npx ${NAME} dev (canvas on http://localhost:${DEFAULTS.port} by default)\n`);
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- if (!noApp(host)) console.log(` then, to your agent: "Read design/AGENTS.md. Build an onboarding scene - welcome, form, done - mobile-first, using our components."\n`);
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+ if (!noApp(host)) console.log(` then, to your agent: "Read design/AGENTS.md. This is our first session - follow design/instructions/welcome.md."\n`);
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  }
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  const MANAGED_PREFIX = "<!-- marver:managed ";
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  const LEGACY_PREFIX = "<!-- generated by marver init";
@@ -170,7 +190,7 @@ const noApp = (host) => !host.router && !host.tailwind && !host.shadcn && !host.
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  * The STOP branch fires only on the same condition that creates SETUP.md - an app
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  * without Tailwind (plain React + CSS) gets guidance, never a dead pointer. */
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  function uiGuidance(host, isNoApp) {
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- if (isNoApp) return `STOP - this repo has no app yet. Read design/instructions/setup.md before designing anything.`;
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+ if (isNoApp) return `Setup required - this repo has no app yet: read design/instructions/setup.md and follow it before designing anything.`;
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  if (host.shadcn) return `Use the app's UI: import from ${host.shadcn.uiAlias}; style with the app's Tailwind classes.`;
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  if (host.tailwind) return `Style with the app's Tailwind classes and design tokens; there is no detected component library - extract shared pieces into design/components/.`;
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  return `Use the app's existing components and stylesheets (import them directly); there is no Tailwind or component library detected - extract shared pieces into design/components/.`;
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  > the real stack. While this file exists, DO NOT design.
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  ${NAME} builds frames from YOUR components and YOUR theme. With none, frames become
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- hand-rolled CSS that shares nothing with the future app and cannot be promoted into
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- it later - work that gets thrown away.
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+ hand-rolled CSS that shares nothing with the future app - throwaway work. So the
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+ first session sets up the stack - TOGETHER with the human. The stack is their
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+ decision; your job is a good recommendation and a smooth setup. Narrate every step
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+ in one plain line as you go - and tell the story, not the machinery: this file is
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+ stage directions, never read it aloud to the human ("setup.md says...", "step 2
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+ requires..."). Voice rules and the structured-question guidance live in
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+ instructions/welcome.md - read that section before you say anything.
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+ ## 1. Greet and explain
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+ Tell the human the repo is empty and that this is a perfect starting point. Then
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+ the pitch, ~4 sentences in your own words (source: instructions/welcome.md): we design
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+ in real code; the theme, components, and screens made while designing ARE the
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+ app's building blocks; by the time the design is agreed most of the UI work
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+ exists, and building the product means plugging functionality in; the goal is
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+ alignment on look and feel across themes and devices first.
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+ ## 2. Ask what they are building - STOP
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+ Two questions, one message (use the harness's structured question tool if it
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+ has one):
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+ 1. "In a sentence or two - what are we building?"
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+ 2. "Any intuition for the look? Colors, mood, UI style - a sentence like
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+ 'minimalist, glass UI, witty copy' steers everything. 'Surprise me' is a
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+ fine answer."
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+
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+ Then STOP: no further tool calls, end your turn, resume only after the human
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+ replies. (The one exception: the human explicitly asked for unattended
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+ execution - then assume something reasonable, mark it UNCONFIRMED, surface it
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+ first.)
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+ ## 3. Propose the stack - STOP
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- ## Do this first
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+ From their answer, recommend a framework with one line of reasoning each:
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- non-empty directory (this repo already holds design/ and a package.json), so
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- scaffold into a temp dir and merge:
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+ - Marketing site, content, SEO -> latest Next.js.
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+ - App-like, interactive, client-heavy -> latest React Router.
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+ - Their answer points somewhere else? Recommend that instead, and say why.
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+ If you can search the web, verify current major versions first - one or two
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+ searches, then propose. Recommend shadcn/ui + latest Tailwind as the default
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+ component layer (take their current defaults) - but they are a recommendation,
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+ not a requirement: if the human prefers another component library, plain CSS,
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+ or their own design system, that wins. Any React + a real stylesheet works;
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+ ${NAME} adapts to what detection finds. Present the proposal with the
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+ harness's structured question tool when it has one - short labels, one-line
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+ trade-offs - closing with "aligned, or tell me what you'd rather use". Then
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+ STOP again: no further tool calls, end your turn, wait for the nod.
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+ ## 4. Hand them the tour, then scaffold
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+ The setup and first draft take real minutes; the human should spend them
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+ learning the canvas, not watching a terminal. The moment the stack is agreed,
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+ send them to the ${NAME} tour - a published canvas we host, built to be
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+ explored: https://tour.marver.design - password \`welcome\`. Tell them it teaches
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+ selection, devices, themes, variants, and play mode from inside the canvas,
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+ and that it ends by sending them back to check on you. (Unreachable from this
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+ machine? Say so and skip it - never stall on it.) Then get to work.
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+ NOTE: scaffolders refuse non-empty directories (this repo already holds design/
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+ and a package.json - the one you likely created with \`npm init -y\` to install
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+ ${NAME} into), so scaffold into a temp dir and merge. The Next.js lane - adapt
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+ the same shape to whatever stack was agreed:
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  \`\`\`
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- point is that components and a theme EXIST.
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+ Scaffolder flags drift between versions (create-next-app and shadcn both) - if
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+ a flag errors or a prompt appears despite --yes, accept the tool's defaults.
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+ Known scaffold bug if shadcn was agreed (hit on every create-next-app + shadcn
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+ run so far): shadcn's
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+ init rewrites the theme CSS's \`@theme inline\` block and leaves
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+ \`--font-sans: var(--font-sans)\` - self-referential, resolves to nothing, and
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+ the app silently renders in the browser's default font. After shadcn init,
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+ open the theme CSS and bind every font token to a variable that actually
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+ exists (e.g. \`--font-sans: var(--font-geist-sans)\` under Next); check
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+ Then START the dev server and
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+ confirm the starter page renders before moving on. Unsure about the stack's
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+ conventions? Fetch its docs.
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+ ## 5. Re-run init
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+ init is idempotent: it detects the real stack, deletes this file, and
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+ regenerates AGENTS.md against reality. Verify the wiring (instructions/
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+ configure.md): frames render styled, one app component imports cleanly.
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+ DESIGN.md comes next, as part of the first draft.
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+ step 2's answer; write design/DESIGN.md. The human's look intuition from
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+ commit to a direction and name it in one sentence at the reveal.
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+ the direction before they read a word. Write the copy like it ships:
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+ specific, confident, witty where the brand allows, never placeholder. This
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+ first draft is the product's first impression AND ${NAME}'s - go above and
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+ they are building) but never the quality bar. Then THE REVEAL: start
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+ their own product carry it. End with the deep link using the PRINTED port -
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+ \`http://localhost:<port>/#/b/<board>\`, never the bare root URL.
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package/package.json CHANGED
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  "name": "@marver-design/marver",
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- "version": "0.2.3",
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  "description": "The agent-native design canvas. A design/ folder, one command, a canvas of live frames built from your repo's real components. The tool ships no AI - your coding agent is the designer.",
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+ Never drive or automate the canvas UI; read and write files only. (Starting
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+ seen their own product on the canvas, and knows what to do next. Narrate as you
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+ go - one short plain sentence per step, teaching by doing, never a lecture.
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+
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+ ## Voice - tell the story, not the machinery
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+ These instruction files are stage directions, not a script to read aloud. Never
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+ narrate them to the human ("setup.md says...", "step 2 requires...", "per the
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+ generated instructions I must...") - speak as a designer who is excited to
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+ start: what we're doing, why it matters, what comes next. Intent over
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+ internals; one warm, concrete sentence beats three procedural ones.
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+
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+ - Robotic: "Init flagged that there's no app yet and pointed me to setup.md.
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+ I'm following that file now, and step one is a conversation with you."
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+ - Human: "Canvas is in. Before anything gets built I want to know what we're
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+ making - that decides everything else."
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+ Precision still matters - engineers are reading - but the file paths, step
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+ numbers, and phase names are yours, not theirs.
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+ When you ask the human to choose (the stack, a variant direction), use your
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+ harness's structured question tool (AskUserQuestion or similar) if one exists -
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+ short option labels, one-line trade-offs, and a small ASCII sketch per option
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+ when the choice is visual. Plain prose is the fallback, never the preference.
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+ Asking through the tool IS the stop: no further tool calls after it, wait for
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+ the answer.
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+
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+ ## The pitch (say it early, in your own words)
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+ marver co-designs the user experience with the human in real code. Frames are
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+ not mockups - they are components using the app's actual theme and component
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+ library. The theme, components, and screens shaped while designing ARE the
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+ app's building blocks: by the time the design is agreed, most of the UI work
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+ already exists, and building the product means plugging functionality into it.
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+ The goal is full alignment on look and feel - across light and dark, across
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+ every device size - before app logic is written.
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+
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+ ## Empty repo?
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+ design/instructions/setup.md is the authority (it exists only while the repo
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+ has no app). Follow it end to end; it sends you back here for the reveal.
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+
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+ ## The waiting room - hand them the hosted tour while you build
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+ Building well takes real minutes, and the human should spend them inside a
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+ canvas, not watching a terminal. The moment the plan is agreed (the stack nod,
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+ or the Path B confirmation below), send them to the marver tour - a published
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+ canvas made to be explored: https://tour.marver.design - password `welcome`.
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+ It teaches selection, devices, themes, variants, and play mode from inside the
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+ frames, and it ends by sending them back to check on your work. Then build
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+ without narrating into the void; your next message is the reveal.
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+
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+ ## Existing codebase - first session flow
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+ 1. **Say what the app is.** Read the repo (entry point, routes, key screens).
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+ State your understanding of the product in 2-3 sentences, ask "did I get
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+ that right?" - then STOP: no further tool calls, end your turn, resume when
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+ the human replies. (Only exception: they explicitly asked for unattended
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+ execution - assume, mark UNCONFIRMED, surface it first.)
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+ 2. **Confirm the stack aloud - what detection ACTUALLY found.** Read AGENTS.md's
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+ UI line and design/theme.css and narrate the reality, for example: "Tailwind
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+ + shadcn/ui; brand tokens in <file>; design/theme.css imports them." No
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+ component library? Say that, and what it means (shared pieces get extracted
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+ to design/components/). Anything wrong gets fixed now, while it is cheap
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+ (configure.md, old-repo checklist). Once confirmed, hand them the hosted
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+ tour (the waiting room above) and get to work.
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+ 3. **Put THEIR product on the canvas - impressively.** Recreate 3-4 of the
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+ app's real screens as frames from its real components, linked with data-goto
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+ so play mode flows, working in both themes, responsive. This is the human's
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+ first impression of the canvas: hold it to the craft bar
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+ (instructions/craft.md, instructions/reference/slop.md). Create a curated
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+ board for the set. First sessions skip the written-brief ceremony, never the
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+ quality bar; real work after the tour runs the full method ladder.
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+ 4. **Explain the working model while building:** existing components are reused
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+ as-is; missing pieces are created as presentational components - fixture
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+ props, placeholder handlers - and get real wiring at promotion (where they
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+ live is AGENTS.md's structure ladder). Look and feel converges first;
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+ production becomes plugging functionality into agreed UI.
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+ 5. **Offer a divergence.** "Want a variant of <frame> exploring a different
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+ direction?" One a-/b- pair teaches the variant workflow better than any
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+ explanation.
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+ 6. **Give the tour** (below), ending with the deep link.
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+
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+ ## The reveal
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+ Deliver conversationally when the first draft is ready - a short guided
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+ message, not a manual. Start `npx marver dev` if it is not already running
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+ (allowed for this purpose) and ALWAYS hand a deep link to the board you
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+ prepared, using the port the dev server PRINTED:
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+ `http://localhost:<port>/#/b/<board>` - never the bare root URL. The link goes
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+ at the BOTTOM of the message, on its own line: the human reads through, then
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+ clicks. The human has already played with the hosted tour by now, so keep it
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+ short - let their own product carry the moment. The highlights, all real
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+ features:
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+ - **Select and preview.** Click frames (shift-click for several). Digit keys
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+ switch device presets - 1-4 for the configured devices, 0 back to each
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+ frame's own size - scoped to the selection when one exists, the whole board
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+ otherwise. `d` cycles light/dark the same way: selected frames, or the
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+ entire canvas view (frames pinned to a theme in their meta stay put).
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+ - **Touch it.** Double-click a frame - the purple ring is interact mode: the
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+ frame is live, clickable, scrollable.
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+ - **Play it.** `p` opens play mode: the design full screen in a device, with
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+ data-goto links navigating between frames like the real app. `[` and `]`
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+ switch variants in place; devices switch inside play too, including
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+ full-screen fill.
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+ - **Explore alternatives.** Letter-prefixed sibling files (a-bold.tsx,
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+ b-minimal.tsx) form a variant group - badged, kept contiguous, compared at a
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+ glance. The cheap way to diverge on a direction before committing.
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+ - **Compose.** `t` re-tidies; boards carry a `layout` recipe for deliberate
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+ arrangement (instructions/boards.md).
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+ - **Share it.** `marver build` bundles the boards; `marver serve` with
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+ MARVER_PASSWORD on any Node host (Railway, Fly, a VPS) publishes them as a
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+ password-gated canvas the human owns - colleagues get the link plus the
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+ password. Comments on the board are coming soon.
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+ Close by asking what they want to design first.