| name | ss-restyle |
| description | Apply one optional StyleSeed aesthetic profile without changing the selected output grammar, product job, or core design judgment. |
| argument-hint | <profile> — swiss | editorial | technical | warm-dtc | minimal-mono | brutalist-lite | none |
| allowed-tools | Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash |
Apply an aesthetic profile
Registry-first artifact boundary
When .styleseed/project.json and .styleseed/artifacts/index.json exist, resolve the requested artifact ID first, then read only .styleseed/bundles/<artifact-id>.md and .styleseed/manifests/<artifact-id>.json. Never fall back to the global legacy bundle for a registry project. Legacy projects may use .styleseed/effective-rules.md only when no registry exists.
Read PRODUCT-PRINCIPLES.md, RULESETS.md, PRESETS.md, and STYLESEED.md. Profiles are
coordinated visual axes; output grammars organize attention, information, and action. Keep them
separate.
Workflow
- Validate that the lock has one output grammar. If not, run
/ss-setup first.
- Select exactly one profile from
PRESETS.md, or none. Never stack profiles.
- Apply its coordinated radius, density, type, palette temperature, elevation, motion,
composition accent, and signature move inside the output grammar's allowed ranges.
- Preserve deliberate brand values and required fonts when compatible. If incompatible, the
output grammar and core invariants win; explain the conflict.
- Update
Aesthetic profile and affected bounded values in STYLESEED.md. Do not rewrite the
output grammar or a reference-compiled rule set.
- Run
/ss-score to ≥80 and /ss-verify if renderable. Report the complete effective rule set,
not just the profile name.
Rules
- A profile is optional appearance coordination, not a design-method exemption.
technical profile does not turn a commerce page into an observability console.editorial profile does not justify unreadable serif body in a transaction workflow.brutalist-lite still requires coherent states, contrast, and one border language.- Use
/ss-dial for one-axis changes and /ss-reference for a new evidence-derived language.
