lazycodex-ai 5.0.0-beta.7 → 5.0.0-beta.71

package/packages/shared-skills/skills/debugging/references/tools/playwright-cli.md

@@ -1,194 +1,112 @@
-# Playwright CLI — Browser QA That Actually Drives a Browser
+# Browser QA — Scripts from js eval
 
-**https://playwright.dev/ · https://github.com/microsoft/playwright**
-
-For any browser-served web UI bug, this is the correct tool. Not curl. Not imagination. Not a headless HTTP library. A real browser with a real rendering engine, real JS execution, real cookies, real service workers, real viewport.
-
-**In Phase 8 Manual QA for browser products, using Playwright is not optional.** Curl cannot catch: CSS that breaks at specific viewport widths, hydration mismatches, client-side router bugs, cookie/session interactions, service-worker caching, JS-triggered navigations. All of those are common bug classes. Drive a browser.
-
-> Note: `microsoft/playwright-cli` is the legacy repo; the current tooling lives in `@playwright/test` (npm) and `playwright` (pip), which include the `playwright` CLI. Use those — the legacy `playwright-cli` package is deprecated.
-
----
+A browser UI bug needs a rendered browser, not curl. Use two tiers from the
+js-eval kernel: `new Bun.WebView()` on Bun >= 1.4 for ordinary captures (macOS
+uses WebKit; Linux/Windows need installed Chrome/Chromium/Edge), otherwise a
+written `playwright-core` script against local Chrome. Use the script tier for
+Chrome semantics, stealth, traces, keyboard events, or authenticated profiles.
+In Codex, prefer `browser:control-in-app-browser` for ordinary page control.
 
 ## When to reach for Playwright
 
-| Bug symptom | Use Playwright? |
-|---|---|
-| Form submit produces wrong result | ✅ — Playwright drives the form exactly as a user does |
-| Page blank in prod, fine locally | ✅ — hydration/env differences need a real browser |
-| CSS looks wrong at a specific width | ✅ — use `--viewport-size` |
-| Click doesn't fire / wrong handler | ✅ — Playwright fires real DOM events |
-| Flash of unstyled content / loading glitch | ✅ — use trace viewer to see frames |
-| API returns wrong data | ❌ — use curl, this isn't a browser bug |
-| Backend returns wrong status code | ❌ — use curl |
-| Client hits a URL that returns 500 | ✅ but also ❌ — Playwright shows the call + response + failure effect on UI |
-
----
+Use the script tier for forms, hydration, responsive CSS, cookie/session flows,
+service workers, or client-side navigation. For a backend-only status/body bug,
+use HTTP. WebView is headless, WebKit has no CDP, and `type()` emits no keyboard
+events; choose real Chrome when these distinctions affect the reproduction.
 
 ## Install (per-project)
 
-Playwright installs browser binaries separately from the npm package.
-
-```bash
-# In the project
-npm init playwright@latest             # interactive; picks TS/JS + browsers + config
-# Or if Playwright is already a dep:
-npx playwright install                 # downloads browsers
-npx playwright install chromium        # just chromium
-npx playwright install --with-deps     # also installs OS deps (Linux)
-```
-
-Python:
-```bash
-pip install playwright
-playwright install
-```
+Reuse installed `playwright-core`. If absent, the user can install the script
+dependency once with `bun add playwright-core`. Chrome must already be installed;
+report an absent executable rather than downloading a managed browser. Write the
+script beside the dependency so normal module resolution works.
 
----
+For stealth, use the ultimate-browsing reference `references/chrome-stealth.md`:
+its optional plugins are user-installed once in the engine directory and executed
+as a script, not injected into WebView.
 
 ## The four things you'll actually use
 
-### 1. `codegen` — record a session, generate the script
-
-The fastest way to create a repro. Opens a real browser; your clicks / typing become a Playwright script you can paste into a test.
-
-```bash
-npx playwright codegen https://your-app.local
-npx playwright codegen --viewport-size=375,667 https://your-app.local    # iPhone SE size
-npx playwright codegen --device="iPhone 14" https://your-app.local
-```
-
-Click / type / navigate in the browser; watch the script build in the side panel. Copy the generated script into your journal as the repro for Phase 8.
-
-### 2. A one-shot Playwright script — reproduce + capture
-
-Usually the Phase 8 QA artifact. Save to `/tmp/debug-repro.spec.ts` (journal it):
-
-```ts
-// /tmp/debug-repro.spec.ts
-import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test';
-
-test('refinement chat shows non-empty response when env var set', async ({ page }) => {
-  await page.goto('http://localhost:3000/chat');
-  await page.fill('textarea[name="message"]', 'Add a logging step');
-  await page.click('button[type=submit]');
-
-  // Wait for the response to appear (not just the spinner to disappear)
-  const response = page.locator('[data-testid="assistant-reply"]');
-  await expect(response).toBeVisible({ timeout: 30_000 });
-  await expect(response).not.toBeEmpty();
-
-  // Capture evidence
-  await page.screenshot({ path: '/tmp/debug-after-fix.png', fullPage: true });
-  console.log(await response.textContent());
-});
-```
-
-Run it with tracing enabled for rich post-mortem:
-
-```bash
-npx playwright test /tmp/debug-repro.spec.ts --trace on --headed
-```
-
-### 3. `PWDEBUG=1` — step through the script with Playwright Inspector
-
-```bash
-PWDEBUG=1 npx playwright test /tmp/debug-repro.spec.ts
+### 1. Write a reproduction script
+
+Record the exact URL, inputs, viewport, expected UI state, and output artifact.
+For auth, CLONE the user-data directory and use `launchPersistentContext` on the
+clone. NEVER launch against or clear data from the live profile.
+
+### 2. Reproduce + capture
+
+```js
+// debug-repro.mjs
+import { chromium } from 'playwright-core';
+const [url, pngPath, tracePath] = process.argv.slice(2);
+const browser = await chromium.launch({ channel: 'chrome', headless: true });
+try {
+  const context = await browser.newContext({ viewport: { width: 1280, height: 720 } });
+  await context.tracing.start({ screenshots: true, snapshots: true });
+  try {
+    const page = await context.newPage();
+    page.on('pageerror', error => console.error(error));
+    await page.goto(url, { waitUntil: 'load', timeout: 30000 });
+    // Add the scenario's actions and locator/state assertions here.
+    await page.screenshot({ path: pngPath });
+    console.log(pngPath);
+  } finally {
+    await context.tracing.stop({ path: tracePath });
+    await context.close();
+  }
+} finally {
+  await browser.close();
+}
 ```
 
-Opens the Playwright Inspector alongside the browser. You can step through Playwright actions, see the DOM state at each step, and edit selectors on the fly.
-
-Use this when the script doesn't reproduce cleanly and you need to watch it run.
+A screenshot alone is not a reproduction assertion. Use locators for the exact
+observable state; fail the script when that state is absent.
 
-### 4. `show-trace` — post-mortem on a failed run
+### 3. Run from the js-eval kernel
 
-```bash
-npx playwright show-trace trace.zip
-# or from the test-results dir:
-npx playwright show-trace test-results/<test-name>/trace.zip
+```js
+const { promisify } = await import('node:util')
+const { execFile } = await import('node:child_process')
+const result = await promisify(execFile)('node', [scriptPath, url, pngPath, tracePath], { timeout: 60000 })
+console.log(result.stdout)
 ```
 
-Scrubs through a recorded session: timeline, DOM snapshot at each action, network, console, source. When a test failed on CI but passed locally, this is the single best artifact.
+### 4. Inspect the trace
 
----
+Retain the trace ZIP for the project's existing trace viewer and inspect the PNG.
+Trace snapshots, network events, and screenshots identify where the UI diverged.
+Keep auth-bearing traces private; do not upload them to public viewers.
 
 ## Headless vs headed during debugging
 
-Always add `--headed` when debugging. Headless browsers sometimes behave subtly differently (font rendering, viewport, media permissions). For QA evidence, run headed and screenshot.
-
-```bash
-npx playwright test --headed
-npx playwright test --headed --project=chromium     # pin the browser
-```
-
----
+Use `headless: false` with an available display when reproducing headed-only
+behavior. State which mode produced the evidence; do not claim a headless capture
+proves desktop-browser permissions or window behavior.
 
 ## Catching the silent-failure patterns Playwright is good at
 
-```ts
-// Toast that flashes and disappears
-page.on('console', msg => console.log('[browser console]', msg.type(), msg.text()));
-
-// Unhandled page errors (uncaught exceptions in the page JS)
-page.on('pageerror', err => console.error('[page error]', err));
-
-// Network failures — e.g., backend returned 500 but UI shows nothing
-page.on('response', async resp => {
-  if (!resp.ok()) {
-    console.warn(`[network ${resp.status()}] ${resp.url()} — ${await resp.text()}`);
-  }
-});
-
-// Request that never came back
-page.on('requestfailed', req => {
-  console.error('[request failed]', req.url(), req.failure()?.errorText);
-});
-```
-
-Add these listeners to the top of the debug script. They surface a lot of the "UI showed nothing" class of bug.
-
----
+Subscribe before triggering the action: `page.on('pageerror', ...)`,
+`page.on('requestfailed', ...)`, or a bounded `page.waitForResponse(...)` promise.
+Await that specific response/state rather than sleeping or waiting for generic
+network idleness. Propagate failed assertions and process exit codes.
 
 ## Viewport and device emulation
 
-CSS bugs that only appear at specific sizes, or layout bugs on mobile:
-
-```ts
-// At test level
-test.use({ viewport: { width: 375, height: 667 } });
-
-// Per-page
-await page.setViewportSize({ width: 375, height: 667 });
-
-// Predefined devices
-import { devices } from '@playwright/test';
-test.use({ ...devices['iPhone 14'] });
-```
-
----
+Use `page.setViewportSize({ width: 375, height: 667 })` for a narrow capture.
+`devices` comes from `playwright-core`; apply the desired preset when creating
+a context. Match the reference's pixel scale as well as its viewport.
 
 ## Gotchas
 
-- **Wait for state, not for time.** `await page.waitForTimeout(2000)` is flaky. Use `await expect(locator).toBeVisible()` or `page.waitForResponse(urlPattern)`.
-- **Stale selectors re-resolve.** Playwright's locators re-find the element on each action, unlike Puppeteer's handles. Don't over-think it.
-- **Service workers persist across test runs in headed mode.** If you see cached behavior from a previous run, add `await context.clearCookies()` + clear storage before the test.
-- **Installing on CI requires `--with-deps`** on Linux images that lack the browser's shared-library deps.
-- **Parallel tests share a browser process by default**; if one test polls a debugger port, others may interfere. Use `workers: 1` for debugging.
-
----
+- Wait for state, not time: locator visibility or the exact response is the signal.
+- Locators re-resolve after UI changes; stale element handles do not.
+- Fresh task-owned contexts avoid cached state leaking between runs.
+- Auth belongs in a private clone, never the live browser profile.
+- Give every run its own output directory and bounded process lifetime.
 
 ## Phase 9 cleanup specifics
 
-```bash
-# Remove trace files from debug runs
-rm -rf playwright-report/ test-results/ trace.zip
-
-# Remove debug spec files from /tmp
-rm -f /tmp/debug-*.spec.ts
-
-# Remove screenshot captures
-rm -f /tmp/debug-*.png
-
-# If you installed browsers just for this session (rare):
-# Don't remove them — they're useful for future sessions. They live in ~/Library/Caches/ms-playwright (macOS) or ~/.cache/ms-playwright (Linux).
-```
+Close WebView/browser contexts even on failure, stop the fixture server, and remove
+only this run's temporary scripts and profile clone. Preserve requested PNG/trace
+artifacts, then record the cleanup receipt. Do not kill unrelated browsers or
+remove a user's installed Chrome.

package/packages/shared-skills/skills/frontend/ATTRIBUTION.md

@@ -217,6 +217,16 @@ documentation text, or component implementations are vendored. beui.dev names re
 property of their owner, and the guide instructs reading component source for mechanism
 extraction only, not vendoring it into references or projects.
 
+`frontend/references/design/ambience-skill.md` is a project-original, curl-only operating
+guide for consulting the react-bits (reactbits.dev) animated-component registry during hero
+atmosphere, background, typographic-motion, and card-surface work, written from live endpoint
+verification; no react-bits source code, documentation text, or component implementations are
+vendored. react-bits is distributed under MIT plus the Commons Clause, which permits use inside
+applications but forbids redistributing or porting the components themselves; the guide
+therefore instructs reading component source for mechanism extraction only and never vendoring
+it into references, design documents, or this repository. React Bits names remain the property
+of their owner.
+
 `frontend/references/design/clone-from-url.md` is a project-original runtime-extraction
 workflow guide. Its browser + `getComputedStyle` clone approach follows the same
 MIT-licensed `JCodesMore/ai-website-cloner-template` clone-website workflow that `aside.md`

package/packages/shared-skills/skills/frontend/SKILL.md

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 ---
 name: frontend
-description: "MUST USE for frontend/web UI/UX/visual work: building, styling, redesigning pages/components, React setup, performance audits, visual QA, taste, and polish. Routes four rulesets: design taste router and brand references; perfection for Playwright/Chromium Lighthouse/Core Web Vitals; ui-ux-db palettes/fonts/guidelines; designpowers personas/accessibility/critique/handoff; plus curl-only lazyweb real-app-screen research and the beui.dev interaction catalog. Triggers: frontend, UI, UX, design, redesign, styling, layout, animation, motion, interaction, micro-interaction, make it feel alive, premium, luxury, minimal, brutalist, Awwwards, DESIGN.md, mockup, React, Lighthouse, accessibility, WCAG, Core Web Vitals, looks generic, make it pretty, like X brand, lazyweb, design research."
+description: "Builds, styles, and polishes web UI and UX. Use for any frontend, page, component, styling, layout, animation, or visual-quality task, or when asked to make an interface look or feel a certain way."
 ---
 
 # Frontend
 
-This file is a router, not a rulebook. The rules live in four rulesets under `references/`; your first job is to load the smallest set of files that covers the request, state which you loaded in one sentence, then execute under their guidance. Loading nothing and freestyling produces the generic AI-slop output this skill exists to prevent; loading everything wastes context and creates contradictory instructions.
+This file is a router, not a rulebook. The rules live in four rulesets under `references/`, and reading them is the work, not the preamble to it. Before touching any file, name the references the request routes to and the one reason each is needed, then read exactly those. Declaring the set first is what makes the choice reviewable: a reference you never named is one you decided to skip, and a reference you named but never opened is a gap you still owe. Freestyling past the routed set produces the generic AI-slop output this skill exists to prevent.
 
 **The bar is not clean-and-correct — it is work a senior designer at Linear, Stripe, or Supabase would ship.** Correct-but-flat is a failure, not a finish. Protect the surface as hard as you protect the build: design is a first-class deliverable, not a one-shot decision you lock and walk away from.
 
@@ -14,12 +14,15 @@ This file is a router, not a rulebook. The rules live in four rulesets under `re
 | Request involves… | Read |
 |---|---|
 | ANY UI implementation, styling, redesign, mockup, or visual decision | `references/design/README.md` FIRST. It enforces two mandatory gates — the Design System Gate (a `DESIGN.md` must exist before any component is written) and the React Dev Tooling Gate (react-grab / react-scan / react-doctor installed by default) — then routes to the taste and brand references below. |
+| Spatial structure — app shells, scroll ownership, "what goes where", "this layout breaks at X" | ALSO `references/design/layout-skill.md` for the mechanics, then `references/design/stylegallery.md` to fetch a named pattern contract for that exact spatial problem. Both stack on the style skill and add no visual direction. |
+| Paged output — a PDF report, a print stylesheet, a headless-Chrome print pipeline, an HTML deck printed to paper, or any "why is this page half empty" break defect | ALSO `references/design/print-paged-media.md` for the page box, the fragmentation properties, the atomic-block set, and the keep-together side effect that strands a block on a near-empty page. It adds no visual direction and stacks on the routed style skill. |
 | Interaction or motion work — micro-interactions, animated components, transitions, gestures, hover/press/state feedback, "make it feel alive" | ALSO `references/design/interaction-skill.md`. The beui.dev catalog is the mandatory interaction reference: find the nearest pattern, read its real source through the file's curl recipe, and adapt the mechanism to `DESIGN.md` motion tokens. It stacks on the routed style skill — never replaces it. |
+| Hero atmosphere or ambience — an animated, shader, particle, or grid background; a typographic reveal (split, blur, shimmer, typewriter, count-up, marquee); scroll storytelling; spotlight / tilt / glare / glowing-border card surfaces; "make the hero stunning", "add a living background", "animate the headline" | ALSO `references/design/ambience-skill.md`. The react-bits catalog is the mandatory ambience reference: find the nearest pattern in its intent map, read its real source through the file's curl recipe, extract the mechanism, and run its retrofit checklist (reduced motion, off-screen pause, compositor-only, tokens, budget) before shipping. It stacks on the routed style skill — never replaces it, and never vendors react-bits code. |
 | Writing or modifying frontend code, OR auditing performance / SEO / accessibility / quality | ALSO `references/perfection/README.md`. Lighthouse 100 in every category, measured on real Playwright Chromium (never the `lighthouse` CLI), achieved through architecture — never by dropping animations or hiding content. |
-| Looking up a concrete style, color palette, font pairing, chart type, landing-page structure, or UX guideline — or generating a project design system from keywords | `references/ui-ux-db/README.md`. A searchable CSV database with a CLI; a lookup tool, not a posture. Load on demand; `design` stays the source of truth for taste and the `DESIGN.md` contract. |
-| ANY implementation or redesign that creates or updates `DESIGN.md` — plus explicit operating-layer asks (personas, critique, debt, handoff, synthetic user testing) | `references/designpowers/README.md` + `references/designpowers/lane-c-review.md`. An internal frontend ruleset, not a separate skill: lane-c is the Phase Final flatness/critique reviewer, and its accessibility-constraints and accepted-debt language fills the required `DESIGN.md` sections. Load other lanes only when their phase applies. |
+| Looking up a concrete style, palette, font pairing, chart type, landing structure, or UX guideline — or generating a design system from keywords | `references/ui-ux-db/README.md`. A searchable CSV database with a CLI: a lookup tool, not a posture. `design` stays the source of truth for taste and the `DESIGN.md` contract. |
+| ANY implementation or redesign that creates or updates `DESIGN.md` — plus explicit operating-layer asks (personas, critique, debt, handoff, synthetic user testing) | `references/designpowers/README.md` + `lane-c-review.md`. lane-c is the Phase Final flatness/critique reviewer and fills the accessibility-constraint and accepted-debt sections `DESIGN.md` requires. Load other lanes only when their phase applies. |
 
-**For implementation work, design + perfection load together.** A page that hits Lighthouse 100 but looks like AI slop has failed; a page that looks beautiful but ships a 2 MB bundle has failed. Both win or neither does.
+**For implementation work, design + perfection load together.** Beauty with a 2 MB bundle fails; Lighthouse 100 that looks like AI slop fails. Both win or neither does.
 
 ## Design System and Component Workflow
 
@@ -32,12 +35,13 @@ Every implementation must choose one of these branches before UI code changes:
 2. **Greenfield or fresh setup:** if the user gave no concrete visual reference, design research is a build step with named deliverables — not exploration to be budgeted. Exploration-stop instincts ("enough exploration", two-wave caps) do not apply here. Fire every research lane IN PARALLEL before `DESIGN.md` is written, and open `DESIGN.md` with a `## 0. Research Log` section recording each lane's deliverable — a lane with no Research Log line did not run. Skip a lane only when its tool or network is genuinely unavailable, and name the skip in `DESIGN.md`:
    - **Embedded references:** use `references/design/_INDEX.md` to shortlist 2-3 plausible Layer B references, then read exactly one Layer A style skill and one Layer B reference in full — every line, no partial reads (they are 200-500 lines; a sliced read produces the flattened token set this gate exists to prevent). Log the shortlist, the pick, and why. Use `open-design` only when the curated set has no fit; add `ui-ux-db` lookups for palette/type/domain questions.
    - **Lazyweb real-product screens:** READ `references/design/lazyweb.md` FIRST and run its recipe verbatim — do not improvise curl calls against lazyweb.com; the recipe mints its own anonymous token. Log the queries run, how many screens you actually VIEWED, and the layout grammar harvested — never pixel copies.
+   - **StyleGallery spatial patterns:** read `references/design/stylegallery.md` and fetch the pattern whose primary spatial problem matches the screen. Log the pattern adopted and the element that owns the scroll.
    - **Imagen concept drafts:** generate 2-3 imagen concept drafts, each seeded with the loaded Layer A + Layer B tokens (palette, type, material); pick the strongest and treat the chosen draft as the reference-fidelity contract. Log the draft paths and the pick.
    Synthesize every lane into `DESIGN.md`. Treat sources as source material, not mood labels: extract tokens, layout grammar, component anatomy, interaction states, motion, and taste decisions, then recombine them into project-specific primitives. Before laying out sections, inventory the content blocks and assign each a job — hook, explain, prove, compare, convert, navigate, retain — then order sections by the visitor's decision path, not by visual symmetry. Never freestyle past the selected references, never copy logos or brand-specific copy. Then run the Primitive Showcase Gate (`references/design/README.md` Phase 0) before any product screen.
 3. **Existing project with `DESIGN.md` or a component system:** read it, follow it, and update it before implementation only when the requested work needs a new token, primitive, state, motion rule, accessibility constraint, accepted debt, or reference-fidelity requirement.
 4. **Existing project with UI but no `DESIGN.md` and no reusable component layer:** STOP and ask the user one focused question: should you preserve the current look with copy-nearby styling, or extract a real `DESIGN.md` plus reusable components before continuing? Do not silently choose.
 
-For implementation, redesign, or design-system work that creates or updates `DESIGN.md`, `references/designpowers/README.md` + `lane-c-review.md` are part of the default load — feed their personas, accessibility, critique, debt, handoff, and role-reference guidance into the branch above. The resulting `DESIGN.md` is the implementation contract: tokens, typography, spacing, primitives, motion, responsive behavior, accessibility constraints, and accepted debt must be named there before code uses them. Verify component primitives, states, and final screens with real visual QA evidence; pass design-system decisions, implementation evidence, and unresolved debt into `/review-work` for significant implementation work.
+The resulting `DESIGN.md` is the implementation contract: tokens, typography, spacing, primitives, motion, responsive behavior, accessibility constraints, and accepted debt must be named there before code uses them. Verify component primitives, states, and final screens with real visual QA evidence; pass design-system decisions, implementation evidence, and unresolved debt into `/review-work` for significant implementation work.
 
 ## Ruleset 1 — design (`references/design/`)
 
@@ -63,6 +67,7 @@ The reference library has one architecture file, 12 taste skills (Layer A — *h
 | `output-skill.md` | Stacks on any style skill when output is incomplete — placeholders, `// TODO`, half-done components. |
 | `stitch-skill.md` | Stacks on any style skill for Google Stitch compatibility or a `DESIGN.md` doc export. A complete worked export ships as `stitch-design-example.md`. |
 | `interaction-skill.md` | Stacks on any style skill when work adds or changes interaction or motion. beui.dev-anchored: read the mapped component's source before designing an interaction; reduced motion always. |
+| `ambience-skill.md` | Stacks on any style skill when work adds a hero atmosphere, animated background, typographic reveal, scroll chapter, or card surface effect. react-bits-anchored: read the mapped component's source, extract the mechanism, run the retrofit checklist; one atmosphere per hero, cursor effects quarantined. |
 | `imagegen-frontend-web.md` / `imagegen-frontend-mobile.md` / `imagegen-brandkit.md` | Image-only output (mockup, app-screen concepts, brand board). These NEVER write code — switch to `image-to-code-skill.md` if code is wanted. |
 
 ### Layer B — brand design systems (orthogonal to Layer A; stack freely)
@@ -104,7 +109,7 @@ Domains: `product` `style` `typography` `color` `landing` `chart` `ux` `react` `
 
 ## Ruleset 4 — designpowers (`references/designpowers/`)
 
-`README.md` routes design operating-layer guidance from the pinned `Owl-Listener/designpowers` reference corpus into the existing frontend workflow. Load it — together with `lane-c-review.md` — for every implementation or redesign that creates or updates `DESIGN.md`, and additionally when a task needs explicit personas, accessibility and cognitive constraints, design critique, design debt, handoff, synthetic user testing, motion guidance, or role-reference prompts. It does not replace this frontend skill, `/visual-qa`, `/ulw-plan`, `/start-work`, or `/review-work`; it supplies richer design context that must first be distilled into the project `DESIGN.md`, then used as the design-system contract for implementation and verification.
+`README.md` routes the pinned `Owl-Listener/designpowers` corpus into this workflow. It supplies design context — personas, accessibility and cognitive constraints, critique, debt, handoff, synthetic user testing, motion, role prompts — that must be distilled into `DESIGN.md` first, then used as the implementation contract. It replaces nothing: not this skill, not `/visual-qa`, `/ulw-plan`, `/ulw-execute`, or `/review-work`.
 
 ## Quick routes — most common requests
 
@@ -116,10 +121,12 @@ Domains: `product` `style` `typography` `color` `landing` `chart` `ux` `react` `
 | "Premium SaaS hero like Stripe" | `design/README.md` + `design/stripe.md` + `design/soft-skill.md` + `perfection/README.md` |
 | "Improve this existing dashboard" | `design/README.md` + `design/redesign-skill.md` + `perfection/README.md` |
 | "Add micro-interactions" / "animate this" / "make it feel alive" / "polish the interactions" | `design/README.md` + `design/interaction-skill.md` on top of the current style skill + `perfection/README.md` |
+| "Make the hero stunning" / "add an animated background" / "animate the headline" / "count-up / typewriter / marquee" / "spotlight or tilt cards" | `design/README.md` + `design/ambience-skill.md` on top of the current style skill + `perfection/README.md` |
 | "Build this screenshot / Imagen mock / Stitch output exactly" | `design/README.md` + `design/image-to-code-skill.md` + `perfection/README.md` + `/visual-qa` reference-fidelity mode |
 | "Audit my site" / "make this page faster" | `perfection/README.md` (+ `perfection/react-perf-tooling.md` if React) |
 | "Mockup image of a fintech app" — no code | `design/imagegen-frontend-mobile.md` (+ a Layer B brand if named) |
 | "What palette/fonts fit a wellness brand?" | `ui-ux-db/README.md` → search CLI |
+| "Where should this go?" / "the layout breaks" / scroll + containment | `design/layout-skill.md` + `design/stylegallery.md` on the current style skill |
 | "What do shipped apps in this space look like?" / design-direction research | `design/lazyweb.md` (curl-only) + `design/_INDEX.md` shortlist |
 | "Set up this React project" | `design/README.md` + `design/react-dev-tooling-skill.md` |
 | "Use designpowers", "make the design workflow stronger", "add personas/accessibility/debt/handoff" | `design/README.md` + `designpowers/README.md` (+ `perfection/README.md` if implementation or audit follows) |
@@ -127,7 +134,7 @@ Domains: `product` `style` `typography` `color` `landing` `chart` `ux` `react` `
 ## Shared axioms (all four rulesets agree — apply always)
 
 - **No design system = no UI work.** `DESIGN.md` exists before components do; every color, font size, and spacing value traces back to a token in it.
-- **Concrete reference = contract.** When a screenshot, generated mockup, overview, or annotated reference exists, the implementation must match its pixels, copy, component structure, and responsive intent unless the user explicitly accepts a deviation.
+- **Concrete reference = contract.** When a screenshot, mockup, or annotated reference exists, match its pixels, copy, component structure, and responsive intent unless the user accepts a deviation.
 - **Never weaken UX OR flatten the surface to buy points.** No dropping animations, hiding content, simplifying interactions, or replacing rendered/lit material with flat fills and flat geometric primitives for a Lighthouse score or a deadline. Hit 100 AND keep the surface dimensional — both, or neither.
 - **No emojis as icons.** SVG icon sets only (Lucide, Heroicons, Radix, Phosphor).
 - **GPU-composited animation only** — `transform`, `opacity`, `filter`; never animate layout properties.
@@ -139,7 +146,7 @@ Domains: `product` `style` `typography` `color` `landing` `chart` `ux` `react` `
 | Situation | Load |
 |---|---|
 | Brand/style not among the 70 in `references/design/`, or the user says "Open Design" | `open-design` skill — the local nexu-io/open-design library (137+ design skills, 150+ design systems) |
-| Driving a browser for the Design QA phase | `agent-browser` skill |
+| Driving a browser for the Design QA phase | `visual-qa` skill: Bun.WebView / local-Chrome `playwright-core` scripts from js eval; Codex in-app browser |
 | Pure TypeScript/logic work with zero visual surface | `programming` skill alone — this skill adds nothing there |
 
 ## Activation

package/packages/shared-skills/skills/frontend/references/design/README.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ You are an elite frontend design engineer. Your only job in this skill is to **r
 
 You are not done when it is clean and correct. You are done when a senior product designer at Linear, Stripe, or Supabase would ship it: surfaces read as real materials (depth, light, layering), color carries a story and a ramp, type has personality, and motion has intent. **Correct-but-flat is a failure, not a finish.** The most common way this skill fails is effort drain: the build, lint, file-size, and test gates eat all the attention and the surface ships at the floor. Spend on the surface like it is the deliverable, because for an expressive brief it is. When you render and find only bug-level issues, you are not done — you are at the start of the part that separates good from generic.
 
-Two things ship flat most often, and both read as "clean but generic": the **hero's focal object** and the **atmosphere**. Render the focal object as a real, lit, dimensional thing — a generated bitmap (imagegen) for a product/brand/object hero, or CSS/SVG art that carries light, shadow, gradient, and depth. Flat geometric primitives (plain circles and rounded rects) for a brand hero are the flat trap. Give the background depth too — gradient, glow, layered light, an atmospheric band, or a real image — not one flat fill. Glass is only one material: a dark glossy brand wants tint+blur+rim+sheen+glow, a bright playful brand wants gradient fills+soft depth shadows+a lit focal object. Pick what the brand calls for, but it must have dimension.
+Two things ship flat most often, and both read as "clean but generic": the **hero's focal object** and the **atmosphere**. Render the focal object as a real, lit, dimensional thing — a generated bitmap (imagegen) for a product/brand/object hero, or CSS/SVG art that carries light, shadow, gradient, and depth. Flat geometric primitives (plain circles and rounded rects) for a brand hero are the flat trap. Give the background depth too — gradient, glow, layered light, an atmospheric band, or a real image — not one flat fill. Glass is only one material: a dark glossy brand wants tint+blur+rim+sheen+glow, a bright playful brand wants gradient fills+soft depth shadows+a lit focal object. Pick what the brand calls for, but it must have dimension. The mechanisms for that atmosphere and for how the headline arrives come from `ambience-skill.md` (Step 10), not from memory.
 
 ## Why route at all
 
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Do NOT let an expressive brief fall through to `taste-skill`. Then map the phras
 | "minimal", "clean", "Notion-like", "Linear-like", "editorial", "boring is good" | `minimalist-skill.md` |
 | "brutalist", "raw", "Swiss", "experimental", "industrial", "anti-design", "unstyled" | `brutalist-skill.md` |
 | "premium", "luxury", "calm", "expensive", "elegant", "spa", "boutique", "glossy", "glassy", "liquid glass", "startup-grade", "make it beautiful/pretty" | `soft-skill.md` + a high-craft Layer B (`supabase` / `linear.app` / `vercel` / `stripe`) |
-| "Awwwards-level", "wow factor", "magnetic", "scroll-triggered", "high-variance", "cinematic", "make it crazy" | `gpt-tasteskill.md` |
+| "Awwwards-level", "wow factor", "magnetic", "scroll-triggered", "high-variance", "cinematic", "make it crazy" | `gpt-tasteskill.md` + `ambience-skill.md` for the backgrounds and scroll scenes its sections 5 and 7 demand |
 | Neutral or operational — internal tool, dashboard, admin, "just make it usable" with no surface ambition | `taste-skill.md` as Layer A, plus the greenfield `_INDEX.md` shortlist → exactly one Layer B reference |
 
 You may also load a brand DESIGN.md from Layer B as a *concrete reference* if the user's mood maps cleanly (see the "Mood-based shortcuts" section in `_INDEX.md`).
@@ -181,6 +181,12 @@ Triggers: micro-interactions, animated components, transitions, gestures, hover/
 
 **Action:** Add `interaction-skill.md` on top of whatever style skill you selected. It anchors interaction design to the beui.dev catalog: find the nearest pattern, read its real source through the file's curl recipe, extract the mechanism (spring config, layout strategy, enter/exit order, reduced-motion path), and adapt the values to `DESIGN.md`. It owns interaction mechanics only — no visual direction — so it stacks cleanly, like `layout-skill.md`.
 
+### Step 10 — Does the work add a hero atmosphere, background, typographic reveal, or card surface effect?
+
+Triggers: an animated, shader, particle, or grid background; a hero that must feel atmospheric or dimensional; text that splits, blurs, shimmers, types, counts, scrambles, or loops; scroll-triggered chapters; spotlight / tilt / glare / glowing-border cards — or "make the hero stunning", "add a living background", "animate the headline".
+
+**Action:** Add `ambience-skill.md` on top of whatever style skill you selected. It anchors ambience to the react-bits catalog: find the nearest pattern in its intent map, read its real source through the file's curl recipe, extract the mechanism (render loop and its driver, shader uniforms or split strategy, sizing, dependencies), then run its retrofit checklist — reduced-motion static state, off-screen pause, no scroll listeners, compositor-only properties, `DESIGN.md` tokens, lazy-loaded budget. One atmosphere per hero; cursor effects stay quarantined to `gpt-tasteskill.md` briefs. It owns ambience mechanics only — no visual direction — and never vendors react-bits code.
+
 ## Stacking rules (read this once, internalize it)
 
 1. **At most one Layer A *style* skill at a time.** A layout cannot be both `minimalist-skill` and `brutalist-skill` simultaneously — they encode opposite spacing and typography philosophies. Pick one.
@@ -191,6 +197,7 @@ Triggers: micro-interactions, animated components, transitions, gestures, hover/
 6. **Layer B (brand DESIGN.md) is orthogonal to Layer A.** You can pair any Layer A skill with any Layer B brand. Use Layer B as the source of color/type/component tokens; let Layer A drive the execution discipline.
 7. **`layout-skill.md` stacks on top of any style skill** for app-shell / dashboard / split-pane work. It owns spatial structure and scroll ownership only — no visual direction — so it never conflicts with the style skill you picked.
 8. **`interaction-skill.md` stacks on top of any style skill** for interaction/motion work. It owns interaction mechanics — springs, layout morphs, enter/exit orchestration, reduced motion — and no visual direction, so it never conflicts with the style skill either.
+9. **`ambience-skill.md` stacks on top of any style skill** for hero atmosphere, backgrounds, typographic reveals, scroll chapters, and card surface effects. It owns ambience mechanics and their retrofit contract — no visual direction — so it stacks with the style skill and with `interaction-skill.md` at the same time.
 
 ## Anti-patterns — do not do these
 
@@ -235,6 +242,7 @@ Once references are loaded, before writing any UI code:
 | "Build a dashboard / settings / inbox / app shell" | one style skill (usually `taste-skill.md`) + `layout-skill.md` |
 | "Panel won't scroll / footer pushed off-screen / mobile overflow" | Add `layout-skill.md` to current stack |
 | "Add micro-interactions / animate this / make it feel alive" | Add `interaction-skill.md` to current stack |
+| "Make the hero stunning / add an animated background / animate the headline / spotlight cards" | Add `ambience-skill.md` to current stack |
 
 ## Phase Final — Design QA (MANDATORY, runs after implementation)
 

package/packages/shared-skills/skills/frontend/references/design/_INDEX.md

@@ -59,8 +59,10 @@ Beyond the 12-file Layer A library, the design ruleset carries project-original
 | File | Purpose | Load when |
 |---|---|---|
 | `interaction-skill.md` | Interaction mechanics anchored to the beui.dev catalog: find the nearest pattern, read its real source through the curl recipe, extract the mechanism (spring config, layout strategy, enter/exit order, reduced-motion path), and adapt it to `DESIGN.md` motion tokens. | Any work adding or changing interaction or motion — micro-interactions, animated components, transitions, gestures, hover/press/state feedback, loading/success/error morphs, "make it feel alive". |
+| `ambience-skill.md` | Ambience mechanics anchored to the react-bits catalog: hero atmosphere and animated backgrounds, typographic reveals, scroll chapters, card surface effects. Find the nearest pattern in its intent map, read the source through the curl recipe, extract the mechanism, and run the retrofit checklist (reduced-motion static state, off-screen pause, compositor-only, tokens, budget). Cursor effects are quarantined to `gpt-tasteskill.md` briefs. | Any work adding a hero atmosphere, animated or shader background, text reveal (split, blur, shimmer, typewriter, count-up, marquee), scroll storytelling, or spotlight / tilt / glare / glowing-border cards. |
 | `layout-skill.md` | Layout mechanics: scroll ownership, the two silent CSS contracts, named primitives, content-stress matrix. Zero visual direction. | App shells, dashboards, split panes, or a layout that breaks under real content. |
 | `lazyweb.md` | Curl-only real-product screen research for design direction. | Greenfield design research lanes. |
+| `stylegallery.md` | Curl-only lookup of named spatial pattern contracts: primary problem, constraints, scroll ownership, anti-patterns. | A concrete spatial problem needs a documented pattern, alongside `layout-skill.md` mechanics. |
 | `clone-from-url.md` | Runtime extraction workflow (browser + `getComputedStyle`) for cloning a named site. | A live site or URL is the visual reference. |
 
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