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Design Extract

nexu-io/design-extract

Extract design tokens (color / typography / spacing) from imported source code, screenshots, or Figma exports into the canonical token bag token-map consumes.

776 tokens
context cost
the whole folder, loaded on every use
2
files
instructions only
0
copies elsewhere
how many repositories repackaged it
83386
stars on the repo
on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design --skill design-extract

What comes with it

890 bytes besides the instruction
open-design.json

The instruction itself

6 sections, as written by the author

Design extract

Spec §10 / §21.3.2: tokens scattered across a repo's CSS / theme

files / Tailwind config / styled-components helpers / SCSS partials

need to be lifted into one bag before token-map can crosswalk

them onto the active OD design system. This atom does the lifting;

the input shape is intentionally generic so the same atom serves

both code-migration and figma-migration when fed different sources.

Inputs

  • code/index.json from code-import (code-migration), OR
  • figma/tree.json from figma-extract (figma-migration), OR
  • A folder of screenshot images (tune-collab quick-tune flows).

Output

project-cwd/
└── code/
    └── tokens.json     # { colors[], typography[], spacing[], radius[], shadow[] }

Each token entry carries:

{
  "kind":     "color",
  "name":     "primary-500",     // optional source name
  "value":    "#5b8def",          // canonical value
  "sources": ["styles/global.css:42", "tailwind.config.js:24"],
  "usage":   ["Header.tsx", "Footer.tsx"]
}

sources[] and usage[] are the audit trail token-map.unmatched.json

references when a target token can't be found.

Convergence

The atom completes when code/tokens.json exists. Empty token bags

emit a warning event but do not abort — token-map handles the

empty case by skipping its mapping pass.

Anti-patterns the prompt fragment forbids

  • Hard-coded hex values inside JSX literals (color: '#fff') are

tokens for this atom's purposes; record them with kind:'color'

and a synthetic name so they don't disappear into the noise.

  • Tailwind utility scans must dedupe palette references against the

active theme — never list bg-blue-500 and bg-blue-600 as one

token.

Status

Implemented by the daemon runner in

apps/daemon/src/plugins/atoms/design-extract.ts. It scans the indexed

source files, extracts CSS, Tailwind, and JavaScript token evidence, and

writes code/tokens.json.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take nexu-io/design-extract from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.