oh-my-opencode 5.0.0-beta.8 → 5.0.0-beta.80

package/packages/shared-skills/skills/debugging/references/tools/frida.md

@@ -0,0 +1,193 @@
+# Frida — Hook a Live Process and See Real Values at Runtime
+
+**https://frida.re**
+
+Frida injects a JavaScript engine into a running process and lets you intercept function calls, read arguments, patch return values, and trace execution without touching the binary on disk. **When static analysis in Ghidra shows you *what* a function does, Frida shows you what it does *right now*, with real inputs.** The two compose naturally: use Ghidra to find the target function and its offset, then use Frida to hook it and watch live traffic.
+
+Choose Frida over Ghidra when you need runtime values (actual arguments, return codes, heap contents) or when the binary's control flow is too obfuscated for static analysis to resolve.
+
+---
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install frida-tools            # Python 3 required
+frida --version                    # verify
+```
+
+On macOS, attaching to another user's process needs root (`sudo frida ...`). SIP-protected system binaries (`/usr/bin/*`, `/usr/sbin/*`) are off-limits entirely. On Linux, you may need `ptrace` permissions: run as root or set `kernel.yama.ptrace_scope=0`.
+
+---
+
+## Target discovery with `frida-ps`
+
+```bash
+frida-ps                         # list local processes
+frida-ps -U                      # USB-connected device (iOS/Android)
+frida-ps | grep -i target        # find your target by name
+```
+
+---
+
+## `frida-trace` — zero-code entry point
+
+`frida-trace` auto-generates JavaScript handler stubs for every matched function. You don't write any code to start.
+
+```bash
+frida-trace -p <pid> -i "recv*"                               # trace exported functions by glob
+frida-trace -p <pid> -m "-[NSURLSession dataTaskWithRequest:*]"  # Objective-C method
+frida-trace -U -p <pid> -j "com.example.App!login*"             # Java method (Android)
+frida-trace -f ./target -i "open"                               # spawn + trace from start
+```
+
+Generated handler files land in `__handlers__/`. Each looks like:
+
+```js
+// __handlers__/libSystem.B.dylib/open.js
+{
+  onEnter(log, args, state) {
+    // args[0] is the first argument (a pointer)
+    log(`open("${args[0].readUtf8String()}")`);
+  },
+  onLeave(log, retval, state) {
+    log(`  => ${retval}`);
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Edit that file, save, and `frida-trace` hot-reloads it. This is the fastest path from "I wonder what this function receives" to a concrete answer.
+
+---
+
+## The JS agent API
+
+When `frida-trace` isn't enough, you write a JS agent and load it with `frida` or from a Python host script. These are the building blocks.
+
+### Find a function
+
+```js
+// By exported symbol name
+const openPtr = Module.getExportByName(null, "open");  // null = any module
+const sslWritePtr = Module.getExportByName("libssl.so", "SSL_write");
+
+// By offset in a stripped binary (get the offset from Ghidra)
+const base = Module.getBaseAddress("target");
+const funcPtr = base.add(0x1a3c);
+```
+
+### Intercept calls
+
+```js
+Interceptor.attach(openPtr, {
+  onEnter(args) {
+    // args[0], args[1], ... are NativePointer objects
+    const path = args[0].readUtf8String();
+    const flags = args[1].toInt32();
+    send({ event: "open", path: path, flags: flags });
+  },
+  onLeave(retval) {
+    // retval is the return value as a NativePointer
+    send({ event: "open_ret", fd: retval.toInt32() });
+  }
+});
+```
+
+### Read memory
+
+```js
+args[0].readUtf8String()          // read a UTF-8 C string from a pointer
+args[0].readCString()             // read a raw C string (stops at null)
+args[1].readByteArray(len)        // read len raw bytes (returns ArrayBuffer)
+```
+
+### Replace / stub a function
+
+```js
+// Force a function to always return 0 (e.g. bypass a license check)
+Interceptor.replace(checkLicensePtr, new NativeCallback(function () {
+  return 0;
+}, 'int', []));
+```
+
+Use `Interceptor.replace` sparingly. It changes program behavior, so always note in your journal that you patched something and why.
+
+---
+
+## Python host script
+
+A host script lets you load a JS agent, receive `send()` messages, and post-process results from the Python side.
+
+```python
+import frida, sys
+
+with open("agent.js") as f:
+    agent_source = f.read()
+
+def on_message(message, data):
+    if message["type"] == "send":
+        print(f"[*] {message['payload']}")
+    else:
+        print(f"[!] {message}")
+
+session = frida.attach(int(sys.argv[1]))
+script = session.create_script(agent_source)
+script.on("message", on_message)
+script.load()
+
+try:
+    sys.stdin.read()                 # block until Ctrl+C
+except KeyboardInterrupt:
+    session.detach()
+```
+
+The agent runs inside the target; the host script stays in your terminal and prints structured output.
+
+---
+
+## Output-budget discipline
+
+**Hooking a hot function (e.g. `malloc`, `read`) will flood your context with thousands of lines.** Don't print every call. Aggregate in the agent and report a summary.
+
+```js
+// Count calls, report every 1000
+let callCount = 0;
+Interceptor.attach(mallocPtr, {
+  onEnter(args) {
+    callCount++;
+    if (callCount % 1000 === 0) {
+      send({ event: "malloc_summary", total_calls: callCount });
+    }
+  }
+});
+```
+
+Alternatives: filter by argument value, only log calls from a specific caller module, or batch into an array and `send()` on a timer.
+
+---
+
+## ⚠️ Gotchas
+
+**Attach vs. spawn.** `frida -p <pid>` attaches to an already-running process. If you need to catch early initialization (constructors, `main` entry), spawn the process with `frida -f ./target`. Frida pauses it at startup. Resume with `%resume` in the REPL or by calling `device.resume(pid)` from Python.
+
+**Stripped binaries have no symbol names.** `Module.getExportByName` returns null for internal functions. You must find the function offset in Ghidra, then compute the address at runtime:
+
+```js
+const addr = Module.getBaseAddress("target").add(0x4a20);
+Interceptor.attach(addr, { /* ... */ });
+```
+
+**A crashing target kills your session.** If the target segfaults or aborts, Frida's agent dies with it. Script a respawn loop on the Python side if you expect crashes.
+
+**Thread safety.** `onEnter`/`onLeave` fire on multiple threads. Keep shared state to simple counters.
+
+---
+
+## Cleanup
+
+```bash
+kill <pid>                         # kill any process you spawned with -f
+rm -rf __handlers__/               # remove generated handler stubs
+rm -f agent.js host.py             # remove session-specific scripts
+```
+
+Always note in your journal which processes you attached to and whether you replaced any functions. A forgotten `Interceptor.replace` in a long-running target will cause confusing behavior later.

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

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 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
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ This file is a router, not a rulebook. The rules live in four rulesets under `re
 |---|---|
 | 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, 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. |
@@ -65,6 +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)
@@ -106,7 +109,7 @@ Domains: `product` `style` `typography` `color` `landing` `chart` `ux` `react` `
 
 ## Ruleset 4 — designpowers (`references/designpowers/`)
 
-`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`, `/start-work`, or `/review-work`.
+`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
 
@@ -118,6 +121,7 @@ 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) |
@@ -142,7 +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

@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ 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. |