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name: dev-frontend

description: "Use when an authorized frontend change must be implemented or refactored; owns frontend source edits and risk-matched validation, not audit-only work, UI specification, browser/client operation, or Git delivery."

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# Frontend Implementation

## Overview

Implement the requested frontend behavior in the repository's existing stack. Reuse

the nearest proven component, hook, service, style, and page structure by default;

extend before creating, and create only when current owners cannot satisfy the task.

Consume `urn:skills:frontend-change-request:v1` and produce

`urn:skills:source-change-result:v1`. Typed Task, authority, graph, or package inputs

are used when supplied; they do not replace current source and repository contracts.

## Workflow

1. Read effective repository guidance, identify the real frontend root, package

manager, runtime, target route/component, and current Worktree state.

2. Read only the authorities and source needed for the target slice. Start with the

user requirement and current implementation; use Product/UI specs and the resolved

`<design-root>/DESIGN.md` only when they apply. A missing optional artifact or graph

does not create a prerequisite ceremony. Treat declared Product behavior readiness

and UI visual/interaction readiness as independent axes: when both lanes apply,

require both matching slice verdicts to be ready before editing. One `Ready` verdict

never upgrades the other; route a conflict or blocker to its semantic owner rather

than choosing between authorities.

3. Complete a bounded search for the current owner, analogous consumer, and reusable

component before choosing an implementation owner. If the supplied context already

identifies the same maintained file, owner, and function for this feature, use that

record directly and verify the target in current source; do not call `repo-map`.

Only when a cross-owner reuse or impact edge remains unresolved may an existing

compatible `repo-map` snapshot serve one bounded navigation query. Never scan,

refresh, or render a map for task-local implementation. Collect only the contract facts

changed by, depended on by, or decisive to acceptance for the target slice. Load

[project grounding](references/project-grounding.md) only when the change crosses a

real API/auth, environment/build, durable-data, desktop/native, compatibility,

deployment, or cross-repository boundary. Keep unrelated risk classes out of scope.

4. Use the [reuse and page-ownership checklist](references/checklist.md) to freeze one

task-local contract revision before editing: observable acceptance, non-goals,

affected owners/contracts, reuse decision, and smallest credible validation seam.

For API-backed behavior, resolve every decisive field from the governing contract

and current call chain; unchanged non-decisive fields inherit their current verified

owner. Stop rather than infer an unresolved decisive field. A correction creates a

new revision: reject delayed work for the old revision and reconcile any landed old

hunks before implementation resumes. Keep route/tab shells declarative; independent

stateful sections belong in feature components rather than a large conditional page.

5. Make the smallest coherent source change. Preserve established framework, routing,

state/data, component, styling, and test owners; do not introduce a parallel stack

or speculative shared layer.

6. Batch a coherent development slice before validating it. Treat a running dev server,

compiler, type checker, or repository diagnostic stream as the first feedback loop;

do not run a check after every edit while that signal remains clean. At slice

completion, before handoff, or after a real error, run one nearest focused check.

Expand only for a changed shared contract, generated/build chain, runtime boundary,

or affected consumer. Do not run a full build or full suite during implementation.

For a confirmation, keep, or no-op request, select the focused check for the current

accepted baseline; do not run a post-change check that only applies after an authorized

change. If that focused check fails, do not report `completed`: report the failure or

`Not verified`, preserve its evidence, then diagnose or stop.

A full gate belongs to an explicitly authorized merge/release/deployment/final-basis

workflow or an explicit user request, and its reason, command, and scope must be

stated first. If no narrower credible check exists, use current dev diagnostics plus

a targeted static or diff check and report tests `Not verified`; do not escalate.

7. Report changed owners, reuse decisions, validation, remaining Worktree content, and

every applicable runtime or external gap as `Not verified`. Source implementation

does not authorize browser/client operation or Git delivery.

## Small Change Fast Path

Use this path for one known owner and a local style, template, icon, copy, or similarly

bounded component change with no API, state/data, public/shared contract, generation,

build, deployment, or production-behavior change.

1. Perform one targeted lookup and one minimal patch. Batch adjacent edits before one

completion checkpoint; never validate after each edit.

2. If an already running dev/compiler diagnostic remains clean, finish with a local

diff inspection and `git diff --check`. A new test run is optional and should occur

only for changed observable behavior, an existing focused regression, a real dev

error, or an explicit request. Report tests `Not verified` when they were not run.

3. Never run bare aggregate test commands or a full build/suite. Do not add a red test

for pure style/template/icon/copy changes.

4. Stop after the checkpoint. Do not add memory/history lookup, repeated source search,

browser acceptance, delegation, independent review, or another identical check.

## Conditional Profiles

- **Selected visual source:** load [authorities](references/specification-authorities.md)

and [visual evidence](references/frontend-visual-evidence.md) only when an accepted

source and implementation-ready UI contract actually govern the task. Map applicable

acceptance IDs before editing; use `ops-browser` or `ops-client` for required runtime

evidence. Two-pass same-state comparison is a visual-completion gate, not a default

requirement for ordinary frontend changes.

- **Layout or responsive behavior:** load

[layout governance](references/frontend-layout-governance.md) when geometry,

overflow, scrolling, layering, or breakpoints materially change.

- **Project-owned UI governance:** load

[UI components and tokens](references/ui-components-and-tokens.md) only when the

change adds or modifies a shared UI component, direct third-party UI dependency,

structured token source/generated output, Component Registry, or adoption record.

Use the project's native validator and stop on stale or conflicting ownership;

ordinary feature composition does not activate this profile.

- **Protocol or generated client:** load [protocol contracts](references/protocol-contracts.md)

only for an existing or explicitly introduced contract chain.

- **Behavior-first implementation:** load [behavior first](references/behavior-first.md)

when a stable public seam can support one red-capable check per behavior.

- **Framework, styling, state, desktop, tooling, quality:** load only the matching

[framework](references/framework-profiles.md), [styling](references/styling-systems.md),

[stack](references/stack-guidelines.md), or [code-quality](references/code-quality.md)

profile required by the current change.

- **Forgeway integration:** when an immutable Run and input PackageManifest are

supplied, bind the changed result and observations to that basis. Do not require a

Forgeway Run for normal repository development.

For a maintained non-LLM UI projection: Require a named owner, producer, non-LLM

consumer, semantic version, executable validator, drift policy, and retirement rule.

Run the repository-defined non-mutating validator before relying on it, then verify

referenced routes and components in current source. Otherwise ignore the projection

rather than creating or repairing one for ordinary implementation.

## Hard Rules

- Follow repository-pinned versions, lockfiles, scripts, directories, and dependency

policy; do not normalize unrelated tooling.

- Existing components, adapters, stores, utilities, tokens, and interaction patterns

are the default. A new owner needs a targeted search and a concrete behavior or

ownership reason.

- An API filename, legacy prose example, frontend wrapper default, or screenshot is not

sufficient authority for method/path, parameter placement, trigger timing, or

success semantics. Resolve decisive contract fields before implementation and keep

unavailable runtime proof `Not verified` rather than compensating with fallback code.

- Keep page/tab shells responsible for navigation and composition, not section-specific

APIs, forms, tables, drawers, validation, and lifecycle branches.

- Prefer non-mutating validation. Compare Worktree state around tools that may generate

or rewrite files and never absorb unexplained drift.

- A build, lint pass, source inspection, or browser preview proves only its own layer.

Mark unexercised visual, responsive, accessibility, network, desktop, deployment, and

production behavior `Not verified`.

- Stop on missing source-edit authorization, an unresolved governing contract, or a

second failure of the same frozen runtime acceptance; preserve evidence and return to

diagnosis instead of adding speculative patches.

- Do not stage, commit, push, deploy, or open a pull request from this Skill.

## Output

Return capability `frontend.source.implement` with scope, project/stack, authority and

reuse decisions, changed files/contracts, focused and expanded validation, Worktree

drift, exclusions, and `Not verified` gaps. Include visual mapping and runtime passes

only when the selected-source profile was active. Keep successful command output to a

result summary; include relevant log tails only for failures.

## References

- Core: [usage](references/usage.md), [checklist](references/checklist.md),

[authorities](references/specification-authorities.md),

[grounding](references/project-grounding.md), [evals](references/eval-cases.md).

- Conditional: [layout](references/frontend-layout-governance.md),

[UI components and tokens](references/ui-components-and-tokens.md),

[visual direction](references/visual-direction-and-anti-slop.md),

[motion](references/interaction-motion-quality.md),

[visual evidence](references/frontend-visual-evidence.md),

[visual example](references/frontend-visual-gate-example.md),

[protocols](references/protocol-contracts.md),

[behavior first](references/behavior-first.md),

[codebase design](references/codebase-design.md),

[frameworks](references/framework-profiles.md), [styling](references/styling-systems.md),

[stack](references/stack-guidelines.md), [quality](references/code-quality.md).