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Author the design language once in the canonical React designbook and project it
one-way onto each stack: React -> designbook/ -> ir/ -> adapters/<stack>/.
Phase 0 — contracts & governance (T01-T03):
- ir/SCHEMA.md + ir/schema/{component,tokens}.schema.json — neutral IR contract
(W3C DTCG tokens; React prop -> HTML attribute mapping; non-portable props flagged).
- adapters/ADAPTER_CONTRACT.md — inputs, drift-report + parity-result shapes,
idempotency rules, CI exit codes (0 ok / 2 usage / 3 drift / 4 parity / 5 internal).
- .claude/rules/designbook-propagation.md + DesignSystemIntroduction.md §5.1 —
one-way directionality + drift-resolution workflow.
T04 — canonical React designbook + the missing pull tool:
- The bundled /design-sync skill only PUSHES repo->cloud; it cannot populate
designbook/. Added scripts/designbook_pull.py + `make designbook-pull`, which drives
the local claude binary headless (acceptEdits) so DesignSync fetch+write runs in a
subprocess (contents never hit the orchestrator's context). Pulled 44 files;
excludes the _whynot-design-seed/ self-copy. Corrected the docs that wrongly called
/design-sync the pull.
T05 — IR extractor (scripts/ir-extract.mjs + `make ir`):
- ir/tokens.json (80 tokens, DTCG, var() -> {ref} alias resolution); ir/components/*.json
(10 contracts parsed from .jsx signatures: enum/boolean/number inference, prop->attr
map, style/callback marked non-portable); ir/exemplars/*.
T06 — Lit token adapter (adapters/lit/ + `make adapt-lit`):
- Full-gen tokens into src/styles/colors_and_type.css :root (marker-bounded, idempotent
no-op on re-run; hand-authored type CSS preserved).
NOTE: token regen synced Lit to canonical React — fonts IBM Plex -> system stacks and 8
status tokens added. This is a VISUAL change: review and run `pnpm test:visual:update`
before merge. Remaining: T07 scaffold+drift, T08 parity, T09 runbook, T10 2nd-adapter.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ir/ — technology-neutral design blueprint
This directory holds the intermediate representation (IR) of the whynot design language: tokens, per-component contracts, and reference exemplars, in a form that carries no framework assumptions.
Decision: ir/ is committed
ir/ is checked into git, on purpose. The IR is the diffable blueprint of the
shared language — committing it means a re-extract (make ir) surfaces every
blueprint change as a reviewable git diff, and adapters have a stable, versioned
input. It is a build input, not a throwaway build output.
What is committed:
tokens.json— all tokens, W3C DTCG format.components/<Name>.json— one contract per component.exemplars/<Name>.{png,html}— reference renders from the designbook preview.schema/+SCHEMA.md— the contract definitions (this is what T01 delivered).
Direction of flow
Claude Design (React) ──/design-sync──▶ designbook/ ──make ir──▶ ir/ ──make adapt-lit──▶ adapters/lit/
One-way. The only writer of tokens.json, components/, and exemplars/ is the
extractor (scripts/ir-extract.mjs, T05). Do not hand-edit those — change the
language in Claude Design and re-propagate. The schema/ files and these docs are
the exception: they are authored here.
See SCHEMA.md for the full contract spec and a worked Button
exemplar.