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factory-design from nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit
- Path
skills/factory-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- git:20260716.517fb94, committed Jul 16, 2026
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- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Design-system discipline distilled across builds. Semantic token vocabulary (name intent, not palette position), CSS variables bridged into Tailwind, dark/light as a variable swap, single- vs two-layer token systems, component primitives as token consumers, when to promote a repeated utility cluster into a primitive, and the vocabulary-sprawl failure mode. Read whenever you touch styling — marketing surface, internal app, or design-system repo. Paired with factory-frontend, which delegates…
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What the file says
# Factory design Each section leads with **Principle** (one sentence, stack-agnostic), then **Why** (constraint → option → tradeoff), then **Recipe** (the Tailwind + CSS-vars shape we use), and **Failure mode** when there's one to name. The kit's default styling layer is Tailwind. The discipline here is what turns Tailwind from "every page styled in isolation" into a coherent design system: a small shared vocabulary that every surface draws from. ## Token vocabulary — name intent, not palette position **Principle.** Tokens are named by the role they play in the layout, never by their position in a colour ladder. **Why.** Palette-position names (`primary`, `secondary`, `base-100`, `base-200`, `neutral-300`) are the dominant failure mode of theme systems like daisyUI, Bootstrap, and stock Material. The names describe *where on the ramp* a colour lives, not *what it's for*. Asking "is this card a `base-100` or `base-200`?" has no semantic answer — so each developer (and you-on-a-different-day) guesses, and drift accumulates invisibly until two surfaces side by side look subtly off and nobody can articulate why. …
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How to install
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Source
nonlinear-xyz/factory-kit · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
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